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Evaluating The Players From Game 3
by Paul on 06/03/09 at 05:40 PM ET
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from John Buccigross of ESPN,
For this week, I thought I would check out the Game 3 box score and provide observations on each player. Here they are in uniform number order:
Detroit Red Wings
Nicklas Lidstrom: Played 26:40 and didn’t get a shot on goal. I think he will be more assertive in Game 4. It was his third game in four nights and he might have been pacing himself a bit. Lidstrom and the Red Wings will be in Game 7 lockdown mode in Game 4. They know Game 4 is the series.
read on for a brief look at every player from game 3…
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Game 4 is the series? What? Even if they lose game 4, it becomes a three-game series with the Wings having home ice advantage. I realise the trend now is to call every playoff game a “must-win”, but it’s really silly. Game 4 is, in no way, a must-win game for the Wings. It’s not even a must-win game for the Pens.
Posted by Ryan from Toronto on 06/03/09 at 07:26 PM ET
What a surprise, another person who didn’t catch Lidstrom’s three (that I counted) defensive-zone turnovers that led directly to scoring chances. Though like Buccigross says, he was probably just saving himself for an important game.
Posted by nrbreitkreuz on 06/03/09 at 07:26 PM ET
@ Ryan
It’s the same deal as when media members said it was over after game 2, it catches the attention more than “Game 4 coming up” or something.
Posted by nrbreitkreuz on 06/03/09 at 07:27 PM ET
And you can’t spell Drake Lebda without Abdelkader.
Bucci definitely gets high to write his columns. Amazing find.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 06/03/09 at 10:19 PM ET
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“Ville Leino: Solid again. Assisted on the Zetterberg goal when he made a nice move to the front of the net. He’s the first Ville in the finals since Ville Nieminen, who remains the owner of the largest mouth in NHL history. I don’t mean in terms of trash-talking, I mean actual circumference. He could easily swallow a head of lettuce. Thank god he is playing in Finland. When he looked at me, I felt like a Tim Horton’s doughnut in Guelph on a Sunday morning after the 10 o’clock Mass”
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