The only reason it was 2-0 was because Crawford was phenominal. He would have stolen that game if the skaters actually gave him a game to steal.</p>
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Based on the way we played, he has to one-up Hextall and score goals *with* the goalie in net.</p>
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Everyone else should be ashamed of themselves. If they had enough energy to fight in the waning minutes it's because they were not playing the rect of the game hard enough; they were leaving stuff on the table and that will lose the series for them.</p>
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If we lose because they're bigger, faster, stronger, or of Rask steals the games, okay, that sucks but it's a bit easier to swallow than any other excuse for last nights play: lack of heart, lack of conditioning, being too tired, injuries, etc. Any of those are reason enough to not be worthy of the cup.</p>
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Are we out and the series over?
Of course not.</p>
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But the coaches and the players need to give themselves a rectal craniectomy and know that if they want the cup, they're going to have the bleed for it. They're going to have to fight like it was game 1; go into the dirty areas, get garbage goals. They're going to have to re-think the anemic PP and be willing to take pain to win.</p>
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Boston's doing that. We didn't last night nor in the 2nd, OT, and most of the 3rd in game 2. We showed we're capable. No excuse to not be in game 4.</p>