the day after
Okay, now that I've gone into avoiding all mass media mode & avoided thinking about it for the night... That was pretty much awful. But before the game, I thought I would probably be ok with them losing. Last night, it didn't feel that way. I couldn't watch the handshake. But this morning, I guess I do feel ok with it.
They lost cause they just can't score. I thought it was appalling just how much of a hand officiating had to do with how such the game went along, in the sense of the Canucks getting entire chunks of the game with just one PP after another. It like getting punched in the face over & over again, you don't have time to recover & eventually you fall. I just don't believe in refs playing that big of a role in that big of a game. To me, it is an indication that there is something wrong with the system.
But the Stars did have their chances. Mo ringing it off the pipe...that's when I thought...maybe this just wasn't meant to be.
This is definitely the least devastated I've felt after they've been eliminated in several years. We didn't lose the series b/c of lack of effort. And that's more important to me than just about anything else. This team showed a lot of heart & character where it mattered most, in the core of the team, where we are building our foundation. It's not a lost season b/c Marty finally answered the BIG QUESTION, Morrow answered the question about what kind of leader he is (and I hope anyone who still had lingering doubts about the decision to take the C from Modano to give it to Morrow understands why it had to happen now), the team didn't look like a completely different team than the one from the regular season. From the beginning of the series, I said this wasn't a good matchup for us. If it had been Nashville, I honestly think we would have killed them. I also thought from the beginning it would go to 7 games, but the reason I can accept losing in 7 is how they got to 7.
They aren't going to fire Tipp. You can't not fire him after the consecutive Colorado abortions, two series in which the team simply didn't show up for whatever reason, & then fire him after a honestly hard-fought series like this. He doesn't deserve it, first of all, secondly, there isn't enough reason to scrap everything & start over, third, who are you going to get who is better? I think this team has shown they will play for Tipp & Tipp has shown he get the most out of who he's got. I hope he gets the Adams consideration he deserves.
At the very least, for the first time in years, I feel like we made serious progress this year. Like this is something we can build off of. And at least I won't have to sit through an ulcer-ific Detroit series now. Really need the Mavs to start playing well again now...my heart can't handle too much more of this.
Am incredibly annoyed at my 14-person group from hell. It's an even worse idea than I originally thought. Actually, I said I thought it was a bad idea, but I was thinking, we'll probably be able to make it work. I was so wrong, it's not even funny how wrong I was. Haven't had a group experience this bad in years...probably since that International Advertising group where half the group were international students & I got stuck editing the entire paper at 4am the night before it was due b/c their English was so bad. At least they had an excuse for their incompetence.
They lost cause they just can't score. I thought it was appalling just how much of a hand officiating had to do with how such the game went along, in the sense of the Canucks getting entire chunks of the game with just one PP after another. It like getting punched in the face over & over again, you don't have time to recover & eventually you fall. I just don't believe in refs playing that big of a role in that big of a game. To me, it is an indication that there is something wrong with the system.
But the Stars did have their chances. Mo ringing it off the pipe...that's when I thought...maybe this just wasn't meant to be.
This is definitely the least devastated I've felt after they've been eliminated in several years. We didn't lose the series b/c of lack of effort. And that's more important to me than just about anything else. This team showed a lot of heart & character where it mattered most, in the core of the team, where we are building our foundation. It's not a lost season b/c Marty finally answered the BIG QUESTION, Morrow answered the question about what kind of leader he is (and I hope anyone who still had lingering doubts about the decision to take the C from Modano to give it to Morrow understands why it had to happen now), the team didn't look like a completely different team than the one from the regular season. From the beginning of the series, I said this wasn't a good matchup for us. If it had been Nashville, I honestly think we would have killed them. I also thought from the beginning it would go to 7 games, but the reason I can accept losing in 7 is how they got to 7.
They aren't going to fire Tipp. You can't not fire him after the consecutive Colorado abortions, two series in which the team simply didn't show up for whatever reason, & then fire him after a honestly hard-fought series like this. He doesn't deserve it, first of all, secondly, there isn't enough reason to scrap everything & start over, third, who are you going to get who is better? I think this team has shown they will play for Tipp & Tipp has shown he get the most out of who he's got. I hope he gets the Adams consideration he deserves.
At the very least, for the first time in years, I feel like we made serious progress this year. Like this is something we can build off of. And at least I won't have to sit through an ulcer-ific Detroit series now. Really need the Mavs to start playing well again now...my heart can't handle too much more of this.
Am incredibly annoyed at my 14-person group from hell. It's an even worse idea than I originally thought. Actually, I said I thought it was a bad idea, but I was thinking, we'll probably be able to make it work. I was so wrong, it's not even funny how wrong I was. Haven't had a group experience this bad in years...probably since that International Advertising group where half the group were international students & I got stuck editing the entire paper at 4am the night before it was due b/c their English was so bad. At least they had an excuse for their incompetence.