1-0 Calgary, 5 min. to go in 1st period

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C'mon BOLTS!  Get off your F%#king asses and HUSTLE!!!!

[bulldad]

Great 1st period.  That goal was a fluke.  

[Velcro]

3-0 start of 3...  lots of work to do!

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Got one back... 3-1 now.

[TripleB]

It took them the whole game to realize they're actually playing a real hockey team now after those buphoons from Philly. The Bolts have bounced back from bad games all playoff long. Hopefully that trend continues ...

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A couple of bright spots:

Vinny at times played like a man possessed.  He was hitting and crunching everything in site, creating turnovers, and generally being a one man wrecking crew.  Problem was, when nobody's there to pick up the turnovers you create (because they're all skating like they're in a coma), it doesn't matter.

We outshot Calgary, and really only gave up one quality goal.  Iginla's was awesome, but it was off a broken play, the first one was fluky. and the last one was a 2 man disadvantage where they'd already given up.  Only Yelle's top-shelfer was quality, and even THAT could have possibly been prevented if the D was banging people around the net like they should have been.

Habby didn't play awful.  His D let him down.  Stopping Iginla on the breakaway was huge.  If Fedotenko (I believe it was him) would have followed through in chase and banged Iginla after the shot, he doesn't get the rebound and score.  Our D needs to be MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE!

Our guys weren't afraid to get rough at the end with the game out of hand.  All I heard was that Calgary gets dirty if they're down by 2 at the end of the game.  Well, looks like we can do that too, and we don't need to send the goons out to do it.  Fedotenko got his shots in at the end, and Stillman launched himself at that dude in the corner and knocked him back to Alberta.  I was liking the passion in most of the 3rd.  We controlled it for the most part.

Note to Bolts:  THIS IS THE STANLEY CUP FINALS.  Stop making like Dorothy-freaking-Hamill and get off your asses and SKATE!

[TripleB]

Note to Bolts:  THIS IS THE STANLEY CUP FINALS.  Stop making like Dorothy-freaking-Hamill and get off your asses and SKATE!

As we were walking out, a grizzled old hockey veteran said the same thing. "They just didn't skate".

No excuses for Thursday .....................

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On a side note, did you see Vinny's deke and pass to himself behind the Calgary net?

That was one of the sweetest things I've ever seen him do.  He's a hell of a player when he's physical and plays with confidence.