Wait, Who Got Shutout?!

I was going to be civil about this, I even told my friend in Kelowna I was going to. I see no reason to kick the team when they are down, that is until I read this. Really Henrik?! REALLY?! Best game in three to four weeks, huh?! You got SHUTOUT by the TENTH team in the West, AT HOME! You had just as many shots, and just as many Power Plays. Also lets not forget the fact in the last three to four weeks, you actually scored a goal in a game, even won a few of them.

He refers to Raymond hitting the crossbar: "...Mason hit the crossbar, we could have easily won this game." I know English isn't his first language, but math is universal, 1 is greater than zero, but it still isn't greater than 3. This is despicable coming from your captain. You aren't the Dark Horse here buddy, you are the CAPTAIN of the LEAGUE LEADING team, and you just got shutout by an inferior opponent, at home. Show some fire, show some emotion here. You think Steve Yzerman would be ok with getting shutout at home by a tenth ranked team this late in the year? How about Dale Hunter, or Mark Messier? You think they would just shrug this off? Even Nik Lidstrom wouldn't say something like that.

I am not mad they got shutout, its like Burrows said, things like this happen in an 82 game schedule. His comments made sense, because he isn't the captain. I don't want Henrik to come out and destroy his team to the media, or say how the guys aren't good enough. You are good enough, you wouldn't be leading the league in points if you weren't. But show a little emotion, and for the love of God, don't say this was your best game in three or four weeks. I thought this team was lacking leadership from the coaching staff, but it seems more and more like it is coming from on-ice leadership as well.

Oh but the coach. Alain would not let such ho-hum statements fly. You can always count on your coach for lighting a fire under a team. ""We went into the third I thought in pretty good shape and we made a mistake, we lost a puck battle, and they had a two-on-one in front of our net and made us pay for it." Really? Because what I saw was both Defenseman watching the puck carrier and Geoffrion, whoever that is, just standing in front of the net. I guess we can call that a two on one. Oh and I almost forgot about the Defense. So happy to have Hamhuis and Ballard back. Not like Hamhuis got stripped, which led to the second Nashville goal. How about the play when Mason Raymond went to skate out of the zone, halfway up his own left circle, and dumped the puck back to...no one. I thought that illustrated the teams lack of Defense very well. Losses happen, being shutout at home happens, but when its the first one at home all year, and in early March, when you should be playing your best hockey, and then the coup de grace of saying it was your best game in the last three or four weeks? That is despicable, and explains a lot about this team the last three years.

At least they are being consistent. They continue to hang their goalie out to dry.