Just got home from GF and throwing my 2 cents in about the Denver series, I haven't read all the posts and gamethreads so most of this was probably covered already...
Friday when Dell was announced in goal a collective gasp went up in our section, and I guess they were right, although both our goalies played well after the 2 early ones. REA was deathly quiet after the 2nd goal.
Cheverie was definitely the player of the game, made a lot of good stops although we fell in love with wristers and didn't really crank a lot of them up.
Disallowed goal I have no clue, it was right in front of me and I couldn't see the interference unless it was against a defenseman, they don't show replays of that I guess. If we get that goal I think we would have been able to send it to OT, we were starting to show life and the disallowed goal drained it out.
Saturday boys came out flying, VV knocks 2 home and things are looking good. Then the second period blues hit and we look like our legs are gone, DU scores 2 goals on very nice passing and again our life is drained out. The one that sticks in my mind is when Denver had the puck behind the net and centered in front and the DU guy puts it away, Kristo just stood there and had the best seat in the house. He knew it too because when he turned to go to the bench he looked right at Hak and looked like a little boy who got caught doing something naughty. That's pretty much was how the whole period went.
Had some good chances in the third but Denver put it away with their 4th of the night.
I think it's obvious that the way our offense is playing the only games we can win are 2-1 or 3-2 games, we can't outscore anybody at this time. Our PP is horrible, what's the tally up to now...0-35 or 40? Unreal. Did we even get a shot on the 5 on 3? Our SOG count always looks good, but how many of those shots are within 10 feet of the goal as a result of a good centering pass? Not many. Lots of wristers from the perimeter. After watching Denver zip the puck from man to man to man in the attack zone you realize what we're missing.
Defense played very well except for part of the second period Saturday, it's been keeping us in games lately. BE played pretty well, gave us a chance after being down 2-0 quickly Friday and didn't really play that bad Saturday either, the goals that Denver scored in the second were really things of beauty.
All we can do is keep plugging away and hope we find some offense, coaching staff has got to be physically ill about the PP (or lack of PP), hopefully they can come up with something to get it untracked.
Looking more and more like we're going to be road warriors for the playoffs.
