Morning After Thoughts..
I don't know whats wrong with this team..They had em on their heels with a 2-0 lead, and let em right back in the game...It reminded me of something Lovie Smith would do.
Its simple man....we aren't good in front. We need desperation and to keep attacking to keep it out of our zone and get our shifts and trade scoring chances. If we trade scoring chances evenly we win, we are more skilled, better on the break, and our goalie is better on the break than in traffic.
If we keep going back and forth up and down the ice we can outscore these blues, the second we sit back and get stuck in our zone and let our legs burn and take extra punishment we are just playing a time game, its just a matter of time before they score and we aren't getting chances of our own.
I hope we found ourselves, because the minute we were down a goal in the third we played the hockey we have all been waiting for.
The reason I predicted Kaner was not so much predictive, though occassionally that can get weird with me sometimes, confirmation bias is strong with this, but I said Kaner because that is what would be best for us from a confidence for us standpoint and a message to them standpoint.
Kane got real hot yesterday. He was feeling it, he nearly had 4 goals, almost ended it with the post ding, almost ended it with the pass to Smith. That last line was really playing well together. But no....Kaner scoring was the best thing for us because it sent the strongest message to the blues. It said, oh yeah we have 6-8 stars, but don't forget we have a few super stars and one of them is incredibly unique.
Toews is such a good leader, but I love when Kane comes through. For all the drinking and the flash, the guy just has an inner champion in him. He comes up big in big moments. I wonder if he took the brace off. When I tore my MCL I hated that thing and felt it was injuring me. I took it off and felt great, regained some movement and could feel the pain properly and feel exactly what movements were hurting it instead of the generalization the brace causes as well as a constant pressure on the injury I didn't like.