i hear there's something on TONIGHT too ??

last night's game was well fought by both teams. well, everyone except sarich.

here's the problem: he's given the hardest matchups cause he's on the shut-down pair with regehr, but he's not as big or as fast as reggie, so he lets guys get a step on him and he's forced to hook/hold/trip. was he this bad in tampa ???? there is, unfortunately, only one solution for this: he needs to get better and fast. even though vandermeer might look solid next to #28, i think it's too late to start playin' around with this pairing....

the second sharks goal doesn't count, if you ask me. it was a situation where the flames players couldn't get a change and had been out there for near a minute, methinks. not to mention that keenan's dream 6-on-5 matchup probably wouldn't have included hale, primeau, or nystrom. other than sarich and that goal, i thought the flames held up remarkably well.

aside from my sarich heckling, my post for the NYtimes slapshot blog was also bang-on in predicting the sharktank having a hate-on for our #3. that was a lot of booing. the sharks also clearly had a game plan to shake dion up, which they did fairly well. the problem is: dion is young and tough. sure he'll be tired today, but so will all the guys who were trying to knock him over....

one final comment: conroy needs to learn how to feather a shot into the opposing end. seriously. somebody teach'im.... i have no idea how many icings that guy produced but the tv timeout was definitely on our side in the third last night. wow.