Ooooooh sheeeeeeet. Okay, I guess now would be an appropriate time to panic. Just like games 1 and 2 the Wings should've won. They came out solid in the first and it was obvious that Pavel was trying to up the physicality of the game and was leading by example. I thought overall we were being a bit impatient with the puck and were choosing bad angle shots over puck possession just for the sake of getting pucks on net. On the flip side, San Jose was taking quality shots and every rebound seemed to find it's way right out back in front of Howard. In fact that's how the Sharks got their first goal. But even being down, it still felt like Detroit was in control, and once Heatley got Kronwalled you could just tell we were gonna score.
All it took was an absolutely sick, between the legs pass from Zetterberg to Lidstrom and things were all tied up. Other notable happenings from the first period...
-Niemi's monster glove save on Hudler ended up being a game changer. If he could've one timed it instead of getting handcuffed it's an automatic goal.
-Where has Bertuzzi gone? Sometimes you forget he's even on the team and when you do notice him out there it's only cause he thinks he's Datsyuk and pulls a spin-o-rama into the boards or leaves a no look, behind the back drop pass to no one in particular.
My game notes from the 2nd period are more sporadic which leads me to believe less was happening or I was just getting drunker. Probably both. I definitely remember Erickson running into our own guy behind the net only to be bailed out by Howard and I'm pretty sure at one point I declared Helm the new Draper.
Think it was after that wrap around burst that he had which set up Eaves for the rebound goal. Guy is awesome. I also thought Filppula played great and was almost Datsyukian at times. He absolutely dominated his last shift with 1:20 seconds left in the third.
But all we ever got was a couple of one goal leads in this game and you just knew that Detroit needed an extra one to put San Jose out of reach. You can't leave a team that good hanging around and once it went to OT I pretty much had come to terms with the fact that one goal and our season was over. And that's basically where we're at today. Lidstrom seems to be his usual chipper self following the heartbreaking loss but I'm still way more in a pouty Jimmy Howard kinda mood. All we can do now is play one game at a time and see how far it takes us. Just such a bummer cause I honestly believe that had we won that game we win the series. Now we'll be lucky to get this thing back to Detroit for a game 6. Rough, rough day in Detroit, let me tell ya.
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