It'll be an all-too-short post season for the Wings, what with dropping back-to-back games at The Joe and going down 3-1 in the series with Nashville. The Wings have to win the next three games... two o' which will be played in Nashville... to advance. That's pretty much Mission Impossible, unless Pekka Rinne gets struck by lightning and half of the Preds' defense corps develops terminal cerebral palsy in the next 24 hours.
Tonight's game was ALL Wings... and all Rinne... until the third period when Nashville took a 2-1 lead on the absolute WORST defensive play I've seen the Wings make all damned year, or mebbe even in my entire freakin' LIFE. This:
Wow, you don’t see that bad of hockey in high school. Forgetting the THREE defenders chasing, WTF is up with the goalie? He acted like there wasn’t anyone else on the other team.
ReplyDeleteNot that I believe in such stuff but plays like that lead to lunatic “game fixing” conspiracies.
Sorry Buck, you were probably better off watching the three hours of NFL Network’s 2012 schedule special. I turned it off when they started debated whether Joe Flacco looked better with or without a mustache. And I wish I was making that up.
That play make me sick to my stomach... it was just SO un-Wings-like.
DeleteAs for the NFL 2012 schedule "special"... I'd rather watch paint dry.
Oh boy. That play was so bad I don't even think I can gloat about it. I will say this: If anyone isn't done at 3-1 down, it's the Wings. Tough job, sure, but as that ubiquitous playoff phrase goes, there's a lot of hockey left to be played.
ReplyDeleteAnd, uh, go Preds.
Mustache, no mustache. All those damn schedule specials and draft specials and Tebow and Lebron specials look a hell of a lot better with the TV off. Sports coverage on TV and radio - aside from the actual games - has gotten nearly intolerable.
If anyone isn't done at 3-1 down, it's the Wings.
DeleteThat's true. They were down 3-0 to the Sharks last year and took 'em to a Game Seven. That was then, this is now... I get the feeling the Wings aren't as healthy as they could be. No excuses, mind you, it just is what it is. Rinne has been the key to the Preds' success and I just don't see him having a sudden collapse. But, we shall hope and pray.
“Sports coverage on TV and radio - aside from the actual games - has gotten nearly intolerable.”
DeleteNo they’ve managed to ruin the games too. With their non stop blathering about nothingness, endless replays upon replays of ever freakin’ play insignificant or not, stepping on the live game action with interviews, “in depth” player profiles or personal stories of “tragedy” (and what everyone else calls normal life). Or my favorite, missing live game action because of yet another replay of the six replays we saw already of a one yard run or a simple single or whatever nonsense they feel we need to see over and over and over…again and again…till we’ve become unconcerned about the actual effing game. Which, I know, is crazy, but use to be the most important reason we all tuned in.
I despise ESPN.
Don't get me started on how often they talk about "the impact of" this and that on "the legacy of" this and that, or the "perception" of this and that among some group of fans or players. ESPN really just sucks.
DeleteHey, there have been bigger comebacks... I was witness to the B's going up 3 - 0 on Philly two years ago then blowing it. And, since I come from Boston, I always think of the Red Sox going down 3 - 0 to the Yankees, dead in the water, but then they staged the best sports moments of MY LIFE by coming back and then capturing The Series for the first time in 86 years. Keep the faith, Buck.
ReplyDeleteAs for the NFL, it has become some sort of year-round cult. The sports talking heads never stop, whether it's the draft or the schedule or some other damn thing that sane fans shouldn't give a rat's ass about until it's actually happening.
It's pretty danged hard to dig out of a hole this deep, previous examples bein' oh-so-rare. But I DO have hope.
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