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Mr. Sandman · 05-23-2011, 08:13 AM

That was tough to watch. What I saw was the team was playing "not to loose" instead of playing to win. They have done this several times when they have a big lead, they stop bringing the offencive rush and the momentum swings and they start thinking about not making mistakes instead of trying to kill the other team.

I think Claude should have called a TO at the second goal and tell them..."this is not going to happen again today, play to win and bring it to them!"

I think they will be fine. The First period they were great and I think Tampa has to worry more about their goal tending right now. Smith has not played that much and rolly has had his confidence broken.

We need to come out screaming hard. I think I would put Thornton back in the line up and pull one of the 4th liners. We will need some real backbone and maybe some knuckles tonight.

05-23-2011, 08:13 AM	#26
Mr. Sandman Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 7,649	That was tough to watch. What I saw was the team was playing "not to loose" instead of playing to win. They have done this several times when they have a big lead, they stop bringing the offencive rush and the momentum swings and they start thinking about not making mistakes instead of trying to kill the other team. I think Claude should have called a TO at the second goal and tell them..."this is not going to happen again today, play to win and bring it to them!" I think they will be fine. The First period they were great and I think Tampa has to worry more about their goal tending right now. Smith has not played that much and rolly has had his confidence broken. We need to come out screaming hard. I think I would put Thornton back in the line up and pull one of the 4th liners. We will need some real backbone and maybe some knuckles tonight.