All Around, a Terrible Effort
October 16th, 2009, 9:50 am
Those are Rob Blake’s words, not mine. I was actually somewhat satisfied with their first period play. The kill looked ok, Nabby looked great, and the cascade of penalties seemed to be more a function of scrambling against a potent man advantage than laziness. Or maybe I was just relieved they escaped 10 minutes of kill time and ended up tied.
No doubt the second and third periods were a special new kind of brutal. After AO was left completely unmarked in a two-on-two (reminiscent of Rick Nash just a few games ago), he scored again about 30 seconds later, and the game was essentially over. Now I’m just a lowly amateur beer-league player, but if there’s a player on the other team that’s a whole hell of a lot better than everyone else, generally I know where he is if I’m on the ice. Especially on a 2-on-2. Leaving the best player in the world by himself is more than careless, it’s stupid. Even though Vlasic was on the ice for that goal, after looking at the reply, it was clearly Huskins that left #8 all by his lonesome. Please, Kent, you were coming back to my good side!
After that, I wondered if the flu-ridden Douglas Murray could have come in and done a better job. The third period was a phone-in save Nabby and my favorite new Shark, Scott Nichol. I swear, if he keeps going the way he’s going, they should put him on the second line instead of Clowe.
On a side note, we’ve noticed in the past some similarities in material between our blog here and a certain blog over at Hockeybuzz that also covers the Sharks. Most times we’ve been able to chalk it up to coincidence, like this time below where we wrote about a certain interesting Semenov stat, then it appeared someplace else a couple of days later.
But this week smells of something akin to the Sharks’ effort last night. Check out our podcast this week where we kick off the show with a one minute ramble about the film Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Several hours after our podcast was posted, lo and behold we see this.
So readers, we throw it you – coincidence or something else?
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F*%& Hockeybuzz, that guy’s a douche.
I’m with ya on Nichol too.
Garner is a hack. Never has any original thoughts or insight (that aren’t ridiculous).
“Trade the whole team!” “Fire Wilson!”
I totally agree about Nicol, that guy has been consistently great since game 1. Ortmeyer too, minus leaving AO open on that 3rd goal.
I have figured it out. There IS no Ryan Garner. Its just Mike/Doug’s other half, like when Garth Brooks dressed up as Chris Gaines to sing crappy emo songs, only Garner sings ignorant and bipolar hockey analysis. I’m on to your tricks guys!
My question to you is this- why are you even reading Garner’s stuff?
Agreed, Plank. I hadn’t read Garner in about 8 months. He is actually a good writer, but the actual content is so inconsistent and exaggerated that I can’t take anything serious that he writes.
Plank has also mentioned this at FTF, but Clowe is a PP specialist, and really struggles in a scoring role 5v5. When (if) Mitchell and Pavs get back, why not put Clowe on the 3rd line with Nichol and Mitchell, and let McGinn keep his spot with Marleau and Pavs? That would set up a nice 4th line of Ferriero-Malhotra-Ortmeyer. Despite no points, McGinn has been doing everything asked of him. Always first in the corners, hustling, backchecking. More than I can say for Clowe.
Nichol on the 2nd line? Nonsense, he’s getting promoted right to the top line with Joe and Dany.
Seriously, check out WTC.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks/2009/10/16/nichol-with-thornton-and-heatley-thats-how-things-lined-up-at-todays-practice/