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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Face it, Flyers own us
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Well, I know who I don’t want to play in the first round of the playoffs.
Oh, that’s right … The Flyers would be going to the playoffs ONLY if they played the Thrashers about 20 more times. You’d think it was Bill Barber and Reggie Leach out there against the Thrashers. Pelle Lindbergh in net, Desjardins and Therien on D. I haven’t seen a bad team own a good team like this since Pharoah’s boys implemented a triangle (OK, pyramid) defense on the Israelites. But just as star center Moses declared, ‘Let my people go,’ so, too, do the Thrash exodus out of Philly until next season.
I tip my hat to them and call them my Daddy. Thank you, Pedro.
Let’s chalk it up to fluke. Like lottery numbers, “Titanic’s” Best Picture award or the success of Kevin James.
Let’s move on and not dwell on it. Let’s no dwell on Andy Sutton’s incessant poor positioning, which basically lost this game. On goal 2, he ends up on one knee inside the Thrashers net. On goal 3, he finds himself standing BEHIND the far post when the puck is scooting free in front of the net. Was that not dwelling on it enough? Did anyone else here choke on their pancakes the other morning when they read his agent’s quote about using Jay McKee’s $4M salary as a starting point for negotiations this offseason? “If I was DW, I’d offer $1M and listen to the dial tone on the other end,” I said. To which my friend Dolie goes, “I’d offer him $500K and hang up on him myself.”
Steve McCarthy must have been sitting up in the press box tonight going, This guy’s playing over me?!?!
I promised I wouldn’t dwell on it. And another thing …
Kidding.
Wasted in this loss was the phenomenal pass from Ilya to Dupuis for the potential tying goal late … Dupuis kind of heeled it, though, and it bounced right into Biron’s midsection. What a pass, though. If Ilya keeps creating like that, his line will be tough to stop. Another strong game from Tkachuk and Belanger. Those two are godsends. And I thought Lehtonen played well. Now he gets a few days off before Sunday’s matinee vs. Buffalo. We’ll see Moose tomorrow vs. the Rangers, a desperate team that absolutely NEEDS those two points.
Till then … leave your name and message and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Thank you, drive through …
