0-3. Wow. I didn't expect the Wings to be down 0-3 to anybody in the playoffs. But they lost way too many faceoffs in the first two games, Bertuzzi looks impossibly slow, Howard needs to be better, the defense looks old and over matched at times. The Sharks top line is finally doing something. They are getting contributions from depth players. It looks bad for Detroit.
All I can say is that if the Red Wings don't have it this year, so be it. By far the most injury plagued season, yet they still got things together in time to make a playoff push. They beat a tough Coyotes team. Maybe the long seasons of making the Cup final the last two years are catching up to them. But the glass is still half full. Howard needs to stop a low angle, five hole goal in the 3rd to tie it. But the Thornton shot, redirected two feet in front off of Ericksson's stick was pretty impossible to stop. Lidstrom's stick breaking giving the go-ahead goal in game 2 was tough to swallow. The Sharks are making their own luck right now.
But when the winged wheel is at its best, even fans of other teams will begrudgingly appreciate the team skill. The Sharks are choke artists and will remain such, until they break through and win a Cup. Nabby's game can turn on a dime. He was horrible in the Olympics when the pressure was on. I'm not ready to count this team out. They have no room for error now, but I see it as an opportunity. We are potentially on the verge of the biggest Sharks collapse in history. When they had the mighty Red Wings on the ropes 0-3, only to fold like a origami.
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