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Stuck On Shanahan

by IwoCPO on 04/14/08 at 10:23 PM ET
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No freak shows, that’s not some blatant tribute to the Irish Jig.  Read today’s Keys To Game 3 post and you’ll get it.

If tonite wasn’t the best example of why the playoffs suck, someone find me another.  Nevermind.  Each of you have five or six separate examples.  Tonite’s is just the freshest.  Figured I’d better get this out of the way.  In case you haven’t noticed over the last three years, I sometimes find it difficult to post after a tough loss.

Like for a week or so.

Winning every game isn’t expected, nor anticipated.

But, in true postseason kick in the balls fashion, a loss like this kind of…oh I don’t know…rips your frigging guts out.  Funny.  Wanna know what I was going to write, what I knew I’d write, after the Wings closed this one out?

K.  I was thinking that the way Detroit shut Bubba down in the third was reminiscent of the ‘98 team.  Give that team a third period lead and it was over.  Over.  That’s the way the Wings looked tonite after the Datsyuk goal.  Impenetrable.

How’d the Suter goal happen?  Not sure. Screen? It was a great shot and I don’t think Hasek saw it all the way.  The Arnott goal? The one that brought him, and them, back into this series?  A bad change and a wide open wing.  Wide open.  Wanna blame Lilja? Of course you do. So do I.  Sure seemed like he was unnecessarily way out of position.  But that far?  Burned that badly?  Not even Lilja can be beaten that badly, that obviously.  But I can tell you this.  The last three real tough playoff goals to handle as a Wing fan?  Selanne’s. Tootoo’s from Game 2.  Arnott’s from tonite.  All had one common theme.

Something else I was gonna write.  Uncle Mike rolling four, consistently, just pumping them out every 45 seconds?  That’s gonna pay dividends later.  Will it still? I don’t know.

Two goals in 11 seconds in Game 2.  Two more in 2:08 in the second tonite.  Then two more in 9 seconds in the third.  What the hell is that all about? Uncle Mike better figure that one out fast.

Kronwall’s hit was a killer wasn’t it?  Think maybe Brad Stuart had it in mind when he decided whichever Bubba was along the boards in the second needed a third Wing to come in and complete the gang bang?  Speaking of Stuart.  I’m not really an expert, but do you think this would be a different story if he’d buried that chance in the third?

Man, I love the off day after a loss.  Don’t you?  Really, the waiting for Game 4?  Fun for the whole family.  And when the Wings take a two goal lead on Wednesday, will that be fun for you?  I know it’s gonna be a thrill fest here. 

5 game series. It’s what we said here before the series began and what we’re sticking to now. The Wings are gonna lose a few more times before June folks.  I’m not lying.  There will be others.  Time to climb aboard and start dealing with it proactively.

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