Well....
That sucked.
Running around the Sens Blogosphere this morning, I noticed a common trend.
A total lack of swagger, and in some case, hope.
Coming out of the gate, the Sens took one from the Big Bad Crosby's....Ummm I mean Penguins (I get confused when the media acts like they only have one player)
Where was I? Ah yes, we took a game from them. In their barn, without Kovy, without Kuba, in the first game in the playoffs for a lot of our rookies.
And Sens fans believed. We had swagger. In this very blog I titled a blog called Eat It Experts. That's cockiness.
And since then, we lost the second one in Pittsburgh, despite leading for the Majority of the game and Hockey Jesus pulling the win off the goal line, and last night, lost a game where nothing went right.
Literally.
Nothing.
I am with many of the blogs in thinking that last night may have been a recipe for the most painful/upsetting/frustrating game to possibly watch as a fan. Let's look at the checklist, shall we?
- Disallowed goal (right call, but was still unlucky that no stick touched it): CHECK
- Missing of Open Nets (looking at you Cullen) : CHECK
- Awful Reffing. Just. Awful. : CHECK
- Dominating play for 30 seconds, the puck goes the other way once and it goes in: CHECK
- Missed Goaltender interference call on game winner : CHECK
- Extra frustrating because it's Crosby goal, so no one talks about it : CHECK, CHECK
- Second game in a row puck gets pulled off the goal line : CHECK
- Captain gets sat on his ass by the only hit Crosby will ever make : CHECK
- Forcing plays where there aren't any: CHECK
- Demoralizingly AWFUL goal allowed less than 2 minutes in: CHECK
- Fact that McKee was more effective than Leopold : CHECK
- Fact that Sutton WASN'T because he looked afraid: CHECK
Most importantly, that we lost home ice advantage, just like that. CHECK.
And now, we have no swagger. People are just expecting us to lose. The thing is, without half the list above, the Pens are down 2-1 not up 2-1.
We are due to get some bounces.
So chin up, cheer up Sens fans, the sky isn't falling. Not yet at least.
NOTE: I only could write something like this the day after. If I had done it last night, this would have looked different.
QUESTION: What was the most frustrating part of last night's game? Feel free to let out a rant here.
