On Jan 30, 9:35 am, Duane <letskee....DeleteThis@posting4now.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:09:37 -0800 (PST), tack <thetac....DeleteThis@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Have they had this team locked in the back room? Were we watching
> >imposters wearing rubbe rmasks all this time? I was thinking they
> >must have had a buss idling outside with "Worcester" in the
> >destination box above the front windscreen.
>
> >This Edmonton game may have been the Sharks' best and most dominating
> >effort of the year. They only scored two, but they played a very
> >aggressive and complete sixty minutes and were just all over Edmonton
> >for the entire game, no exceptions.
>
> >And, what can you say about Nabby? Simply the best.
>
> >If they could keep this level of play going every night, almost all of
> >the problems would be solved.
>
> Yes, very impressive. Not to nit-pick, but they won just 15 of 39
> faceoffs, and all but Pavelski were horrible in that regard. Outside
> of that, they played their forechecking game very well and made it
> look very easy. Against a better team, they might have been down 1-0
> after the first period, and lost some confidence, and then who knows?
> Joe was shut out, but there were a couple of passes that his teammates
> should have buried, the Michalek point blank shot in the 3rd for
> example. Let's see how they do against Calgary tonight, and if they
> play the same, let's turn the AC on at the tank and get it down to -20
> for their homestand...
Given that they seem unlikely to ever become suddenly "beautiful" to
watch, they need to play that smothering game to be effective. Yes,
it's harder to achieve that against the better and smarter teams, as
we've seen, but the Sharks seem only to have that trick from their
pony.
And, it is becoming apparent that they play better almost anyplace
that has real ice, rather than the melted paraffin they they skate on
in San Jose.
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