Near Death Experience By Nabby Avoided
April 16th, 2010, 11:25 pm
Blood pressure off the charts. I love/hate this game.
Amazing finish to a game that was pure torture, thanks to our Nabby. I love how the Sharks competed, never gave up and dominated the majority of this game. Nabby should have to buy every guy on this team a steak dinner tomorrow to say thank you for not ruining the entire season.
And a special thank you to Adam Foote for being a tool and taking that penalty in OT.
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Can’t complain about a win, last year the Sharks would have just rolled over and died but man did tonight prove that getting guys like Nichol and Malhotra was needed. The 3rd and 4th line really busted their ass off and the 2nd line was fantastic. They never gave up and maybe its the heat of the moment but this just feels like its different then years past. My only hope now is that the next game that they don’t only play like they did tonight but Nabby gets his crap together in a serious way.
What a bipolar game! Nabby couldn’t have been more ballz. The rest of the couldn’t have been much better. 52 SOG tying a team record. Out shot the Avs 52-22… By 30 SHOTS!! Also a team record!!
Interesting note. I’m really wanting to hear Tmac’s thinking in not pulling Nabby. There was one point where the Avs had 5 goals on 13 shots. I realize Nabby is the guy they are gonna win or lose with but shit!
Love to hear people’s thoughts on this. My wife said walking to the car that if Tmac had pulled him he wouldn’t have the opportunity to regain his confidence.
Either a genius move with the patience and balls of steel… Or Tmac is clueless. I really hope it was the first.
I think you have to let Nabby play through it, the rest of the team was fired up and if you put Griess in you that could have been a huge blow to the whole teams confidence in what was definitely a must win game. I am kinda soured on Tmac right now but we got the win so lets hope that if there is a repeat of this in game 3 that maybe you do at that point go to Griess in relief now that there is a little more breathing room but at the end of the day we don’t win with out Nabokov for any stretch of time he has to be better or we are done.
Frankly they should have pulled Nabby after 4. The team didn’t have confidence at all in him and pulling him may have helped alleviate those jitters.
In the regular season you let Goalies play through it, in the playoffs you don’t have that kind of time, especially when you’re already down in the series.
If we had lost that game Nabby would have to be done in SJ. Absolutely a must win game and when the rest of the team shows up and you crap away a game single handedly that’s a giant problem.
But, enough hyperbole. We won, that’s what matters. There are tons of things to build off of in this win. Don’t dwell on the one dark spot and just refocus, get better and get home ice back in Colorado.
I am not a huge Nabby fan…..but they were never out of the game……only down one goal the entire game……..As a goalie in a beer league roller hockey league, all goals have to come by four other players, yeah five in ice……Murray played like doodoo and Marleau did not help matters either……so I totally disagree about pulling Nabby…….Well anyways, just my entirely novice take on the situation……
SO WHAT YOURE AN EXPERT?? ARE YOU TELLING ME!!! ARE YOU AN EXPERT!!! YOU’RE NOT AN EXPERT!!
ARE YOU TELLING ME!!!
Andy Sutton says Nabby shouldn’t have been pulled…
This really isn’t as funny as you think it is.
Yeah, I wondered too if Nabby would be pulled, but none of those goals were softies. It’s just he didn’t come up with any big saves, which an NHL goalie should be able to do (and which he finally did in OT).
Of all the players, I really appreciated Nabby’s comments afterward. He was quite blunt in saying the team picked him up, that a save or two could have changed the game. Even when a reporter threw him an olive branch by saying he was great in OT, he quickly responded that that only showed what effect making key saves earlier in the game would have had.
HTML is thisclose to breaking out, and Joe had two assists anyways. I gauranteethere will be one or two games this series that line contributes 3 goales and 10 points.
And hey, TMac, your team is deeper! Use it! Couture 5 minutes?!? WTF?!
While I agree with you, I watched the game very closely on replay, and Nabby didn’t make a single tough stop until OT. I’m not exaggerating. Maybe each of those goals weren’t technically ‘soft’, but the amalgamation of them certainly was. Every good shot in the first three periods by the Avalanche was a goal.
And I do appreciate his postgame comments. The fact that he could buck up and make a couple of tough stops in OT is a testament to his mental toughness. I’m with ED, I probably would have pulled him after 4. But the next game is absolutely crucial for Nabby. If he gives up another couple of goals in the first or a bad soft goal, I’m not sure Pavs and the rest of his Sharks will have his back in private.
Speaking of soft, Doug’s prediction looks pretty good right now about the Hawks. Niemi looked terrible, and he’s still better than Huet.
Yeah, I’d definitely agree with that, Mike. Let’s say goal 1 was a total fluke, unstoppable. Goal 3 was a snipe, maybe he reasonably stops that 10% of the time. But he has to stop at least one of goal 2, 4, and 5. A goalie on his game stops 2, maybe all 3 of those. And if he gives up 2-3 goals in the first period tomorrow, I don’t care if they are all 3-0’s, he is going to get pulled and there will be a huge decision for TMac to make if Greiss plays well. That said, I think/hope G3 is going to be a clean win for the Sharks, a 4-1 type of game with HTML scoring a couple in the first period.
Haha, Niemi. Is it just me, or has the knucklepuck grounder the new sneaky way to score? Making Toskola looking less and less bad everytime one of those go in. Or maybe not.
So what’s the word on the social? Stanleys? Or another fine establishment?
FYI… If you guys didn’t get my humor that previous rant was making fun of poor Andy Sutton and his run in with that penguins reporter.
I wanted to make sure no one thought I was yelling at them…
I personally loved it.
What Ian said.
BTW, I’m in LA for the weekend and these a-holes won’t stop giving me shit about your Sharks even though I keep telling them who my team is. Goddamn I can’t stand LA fans no matter what the sport. Go Canucks.
Wings fan, consider the source on that one.
So I guess that makes you…the enemy of my enemy is my…? Huh?
Ahh its alright, I think the Canucks are gonna take it pretty quick. Maybe in five.
Anyone else miss the dudes’ accelerated playoff podcast schedule?
It would be best not to pry.
Dudes!
Is it just me, or is Blake not playing smart playoff hockey right now? Taking a bad interference penalty when the team is trailing in the 3rd… bad passing, turnovers… I’m not impressed with him at all right now.