Hello, Hello.......Babcock......Osgood....anyone?
Yeah I can't get a response either.
Wings thought that they were already champs after winning the first 2 games at home. In game 3 and 4, i have not seen hossa or franzen, big name players maybe showing their true side, or just riding the success of the rookies. Either way, if the Wings want to win the cup they must prove that they deserve those big money contracts.
Maybe the wings were distracted because they saw the new cover of esquire(http://www.mid-day.com/imagedata/2009/jun/bar-rafeli.jpg) yes its quite nice, but they must get their minds back on hockey. Complete lack of Concentration and just poor poor Defense from the entire team and not so stellar goaltending from osgood leads to 2 losses in Pitt.
In saying all this, Pens have just played amazing. Malkin and Crobsy have gotten the support the Lebron could never get. While Malkin has always been providing, Crobsy and the rest of the team really have not. But in Game 3 the Pens stepped it up and in game 4 Crosby must have gotten a call from Bettman telling Crobsy to stop embarrassing me and win!
I'm sticking with my predicton with wings in 6 but the only thing that worries me is the wings looked really old. But with #13 on his way back for the wings, expect an entirely different team kinda like if jim brown came back(simpsons reference )
OH! i've got it, Matt's great piece on the NBA Finals just got the wings pumped up for Game 1 of the Finals and they couldn't concentrate on game 4, I hear Osgood is a huge Kobe fan.
Great Simpsons reference. I think you're right about the Wings feeling like they had already won the cup. They felt like they could just sit back because they were up 2-0. Now the Penguins have all the momentum and it's going to take a huge effort on saturday to get the lead back. I think the defense really needs to step up and keep the puck in. We can't have any more mistakes at the blue line that lead to odd-man breaks. And don't even get me started on special teams...Lidstrom needs to settle the team down and we should be alright.
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