Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Can We Weather The Storm?

The Thrashers have broken my heart of hockey love on Valentine’s Day.

I was hoping that when I got out of UGA Idol last night that I’d turn on XM and hear some good news… that was not to be. In all honesty, I am glad I didn’t have to hear those 3 goal sirens go off during the 1st period. We listened to the 2nd period on the way back to Atlanta. Thrashers get a goal and you pray, you hope they can turn it around and make a game of it… less than half a minute later, all the hope and glimmer is turned upside down and in your face with another Flames goal… right off the damn faceoff. THAT one hurt… Any possible potential we had after our goal was smacked right out of our hands with that 4th goal… Despite the loss, the 3rd period was decent… at least it was SOMETHING positive… we didn’t allow the Flames to score in the 3rd… We got back in time to watch the 3rd period on TV… praying for a miracle but knowing it more than likely was not to be. You hope, you pray, you think positive, but somewhere deep inside you just know it’s going to be another loss.

This makes next week’s games against the Canes and Tampa crucial, must win games. Whoever made this schedule must’ve known something we don’t… we play Tampa and Carolina at this point in the schedule when the standings are THIS close… we play the Canes 3 times within 12 days… if we don’t take 2 of 3 from them to give us a LITTLE more breathing room, then things will get ugly.

Let’s just hope this team can turn things around by March and keep it going… and turn red hot come April…

There’s just no excuse… I don’t know if it’s coaching, I don’t know if it’s the players, but something is missing. My girlfriend says there’s a glue that we just don’t have and I think she’s right. Do the player hate each other off the ice and don’t care about the game? Is BH not doing something right? Did the Thrashers catch Bravesitis? There is WAY too much talent on this team for these guys to be playing this bad… so something, whatever it may be, is missing. Whatever that missing piece is – it may be a trade we still need to make, it may be teamwork the team needs, it may be a slap in the face… I dunno…but they need something. This is not the right time of the season to be playing this bad. But I agree with what Web Guy says… if you had told me we’d be up by 3 points at this point in the season before the season started, that would be insane. But we WERE up by much more and have lost the nice lead we once had. I hope they start watching the scoreboard…and when they see Tampa or Carolina winning a game, they better start playing with more hockey love, more heart, more emotion…that’s what I want to see.

The Thrashers are going to have to weather one hell of a storm of Lightning and Hurricanes coming up… and I hate to say it but Thrashers don’t usually fly in Hurricanes or around Lightning… but I hope THESE Thrashers somehow, some way weather the upcoming storm.

The worst thing that we can do is not show up. No matter if we are in first or last, the team needs to see as many butts in the seats as possible… if they see a half-empty Philips Arena, it sends the message to them that hey, our fans know we are losing, why should we give a crap… if we show up and still show them some hockey love, that support will send them a message that we support them no matter what… and if you are true Thrashers fan, that’s what you do.

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