Feburary 2nd, 2007

Thrashers vs. Islanders 1/1/07

I'm still numb from tonight's loss. Granted it was a much better game than the final score indicated, but man. Another Carolina loss, another chance to gain ground... gone. We tied the game 2-2 and then gave up the lead only moments later. Ouch. Kovy seemed to try to do too much.
But the night didn't star off well. My girlfriend's dad got 4 tickets to the club side of the arena tonight, 105 rows B and C. Talk about some nice seats. Well, they had four tickets and they were all there. I was thinking they could just bring a ticket out to me, but little to my knowledge, they mark the tickets and apparently stamp your hand. There's really no way around it. I didn't think it'd be that hard to sneak over there, but I was wrong. But I can't get mad a Philips for doing that; it's in their own best interest. But there's no denying that I was quite disappointed to say the least; I didn't get to spend time with my girlfriend and her family not to mention experience the finer side of Philips Arena. Oh well. I did however manage to (you never heard this from me) sneak down and sit with my friend Jordan about 3 rows up close to the right side of the Islanders bench... so I did get to sit in a nice location tonight, but I still felt left out... and it bummed me out the entire night.

I guess Dunham came into the game with one mindset: to beat his old team. And he did. I think had Hossa made that penalty shot the momentum of the game would have been totally different and probably gone our way. But that's hockey... it can be the worlds most frustrating game... and we had our chances, we just didn't capitalize. In the playoffs we simply cannot afford to play this way.

There's no doubt that Saturday night is a pretty much a must-win for the Thrashers. We have to beat the last place Flyers. If we don't... I'm not sure it can get worse than that.

We better turn things around Saturday night. Tuesday will be our biggest test this homestand against the Sabres. We'll see. But tonight the boys looked tired. And speaking of tired, so am I.

I gave my girlfriend my camera tonight to take pictures from her seats... here are a few good ones.