I wouldn't put most of the blame on luongo for last nights horror story, the whole
team was the same, so that tells me there was a fatigue factor that set in from
the big road trip, back home for one, off to edmonton for one, then back home
for one, then the taylor pyatt tragedy, and the one minute of silence before the
game, a blend of things that put this team in a position where their brains shut
down for that game.
We'll see how they play tomorrow against calgary, hope they can snap back.
They had today 'off', so hopefully they slept and slept and slept, I wonder, as the
one's with small kids won't get that luxury.
If they play bad tomorrow, then I will begin to be concerned about their state
of mind and body, no player ever steps on the ice with a plan to play poorly,
or be lazy, they all have pride and the desire to win.
In most games we can pick out one or two players who don't play as well as they
should, but the whole team did it at the same time, there has to be a reason
for that.
Tom Larscheid talked about how fatiguing those long road trips are, as he is
there with them the whole way, and doesn't even play, and he says he still feels
the fatigue, physical and mental.
The game at home against anaheim was really just part of the road trip, as
they had to fly off to edmonton the next morning.
The one worrisome part is, that they don't let this game bother them too much,
or begin to cause a loss of confidence, as that is the beginning of a slump.
Confidence is everything.
My daughter is really grumbling today, she will not go to another game, $500.00
down the drain as far as she is concerned. Total cost for 3 people.
She played hockey for years, and said she could have helped them last night,
they needed her, she wouldn't have been the worst one on the ice. She doesn't
watch games, doesn't own a tv, did this trip for her son's birthday, he loves
hockey, she wanted him to hear the roar of gen. motors place, but she said the
place was so quiet, then the one goal near the end.
They had a heckler up behind them (drinking), hollering trashy stuff at the canucks, started to cheer for colorado, and called for laBarbera and many other
things, she said the lady beside her almost hit him with her program, and
threatened to take his beer away, I guess that was a 'form' of entertainment.;-)
It's a wonder the lady didn't end up 'wearing' the beer, but I guess it's too precious
to the owner to give up, and expensive.
GO CANUCKS GO
