I was thinking Vokoun too, then I listened to some arguments on SportsCenter tonight about the Pens putting Fluery in their net to start Game 3. They had to do with his record for the team but a lot of talk was also given to him being such a highly-paid player. We'll see, honestly.......I hope the Pens go shopping for a better goalies in the off-season. It is the weakest link in the chain and when a team is struggling as we have often seen throughout the play-offs your goalie can get you through. Vokoun is a constant worry to me. I know he has done well by the team but he has so many holes at times it is a sheer wonder that so few goals have found them so far. I don't blame him for the losses, it would have been nice if all the saves he made had been paid back by a couple of goals at least............oh and a little better on the puck management in their zone.
That's a really good point about working for the goals, the game and the wins, talloola. And it's true. I watched our guys closely the other night. Time and again, there they were skating aimlessly down/up/across the ice, missing important checks or otherwise being completely disengaged from the play. That stupid chip-shot attempt by Crosby which Marchand scored on? If you are going to make a dangerous shot like that you better make sure it clears the zone.........I couldn't believe Crosby missed that so badly..........I am honestly beginning to wonder if there is yet again another problem with his bod or his health or his head or something..........he's just not playing like he did in the series against Ottawa. Something is badly amiss there.
On the other side of the ice, the Bruins are tickled pink now that they have enticed the Penguins into playing their style of hockey and they are showing how happy they are by playing really good hockey. They make the game exciting.
he just reminds me of toews when they lost the first two games against detroit. He totally lost his
concentration, felt so frustrated and responsible for everything that was happening, that he couldn't
do anything, looked like an idiot at times.
Things just aren't going like they had 'anticipated' it would go, everything is haywire, and the captain
and the best player on the team must fix it, (in his own mind),but the frame of mind isn't there at the
moment.
If the pens were playing the bruins style of hockey they would be doing much better. they are playing
a lazy style of hockey, and wondering why it isn't working, that isn't bruins hockey, they work, work
work all the time, the only thing that can make me dislike the bruins, is when they play a brutal style
of hockey, but they haven't even had to do that, it has been rather easy for them, especially in the
second game.
If the pens knew how to play a totally defensive style game, they should do that till they get more
control in their game, but I don't think they know the meaning of the word 'defensive'.
Maybe Bylsma has them doing that in practice today, just to give them some responsibility in their own
end of the ice, before they get it in their heads to rush up the ice and score a goal.
