It's been about a weeks since the Canucks got bounced by the Flames. I think I can talk about it now. Scoring with 5 seconds left in regualation of game 7 I thought we were destined to take it. The lame penalty call at the end of the first OT and the resultant OT winner early in the 2nd OT capped off a very disapointing year. The silver lineing of course is winning the division that should have been ours last year aswell. I don't really feel the need to talk about the playoffs because most of you saw it, in all it's technicolour horrorful glory. Congradulations to the Flames for playing the way you needed to beat us and for outworking us...althou that brand of hockey should be banned. They gotta come up with some sort of illigal defence. Clutch and grab hockey is cheap, and all a trap defence does is choke out the speed and creativity in the game. Basically everything that makes the game appealing.
So for next year. Hopefully we can avoid the injury bug (we've been lucky the past few years) because our lack of depth was revealed. And/or our allstar PF needs to avoid being suspeneded. We need another nasty crease clearing SOB. Allen can't do it himself. Pair Allen on the top pair with Jovo and stick SOB on the botom pair with Salo. Up front we gotta hang onto Sanderson, I'll drive Rucinsky to the airport myself. In net we gotta sign Clouts and give him one more year to prove that he can carry us to the Cup (while giving Auld a year to get ready to be #1) Three years in a row he's either entered to playoffs injured or has gotten injured. 4=the door. I don't think there's anyone available that'd be an upgrade on Clouts. The draft, we gave up our second round pick for the idiot Hedberg , our 3rd for Sanderson, and the 2nd we would have gotten for Umberger for the other idiot Rucinsky...and we'll be picking late every round. Oh and with the labour dispute there might not even be a season next year which means no NHL'ers in the Olympics.
posted by R @ 2:42 PM
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