San Jose suffered a frustrating 6-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks and your pal Ian is going to tell you how he saw it. It's the post game, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly!
The Good: Honestly I really thought the sharks had a good
chance to win the game through two periods of play, they dominated on the shot
clock putting 26 shots on goal in those periods as well as laid out a ton of
hits and had their opportunities to win the game unfortunately Corey Crawford
was on his game tonight. He wasn't
perfect though as Rookie Melkar Karlsson continues to impress notching his
12th. and Joe Thornton was able to get a goal off a deflection and I thought
the Hawks were lucky to leave enter the 2nd intermission with a tie. Sharks for what felt like the hundredth game
in a row had a goal called back. It was
not a perfect game for the Sharks to that point but one that should have been
good enough to gut out a win against a very good Blackhawks team.
The Bad: Power
play only hit one of their 4 opportunities while the penalty kill was only
successful half the time, the Sharks need to tighten up their special teams if
they are going to somehow find themselves playing in April. On the first Chicago goal Braun needs to be
more aggressive, I thought he backed off to much forcing Niemi to make a
difficult save that gave him no chance to control the rebound and because of
Brauns passiveness Sharp didn't have to fight at all for the rebound and put it
passed an out of position Niemi. While
Nemo has had better games that goal is on Braun as Niemi made the initial save. Mirco Mueller took a stumble that took away
from what was another good game by the rookie defenseman.
The Ugly: There is no excuse for the 3rd period the
Sharks played after dominating on the shot clock they allowed a tough goal and
then spent a great deal of the rest of the period killing penalty after
penalty, which was not successful enough when it was all said and done the
Sharks let the game get away from them while the 'Hawks scored 4 unanswered
goals. Someone mentioned it was like the
Sharks put the entire month of February and I couldn't agree more. After solid efforts against the Penguins and
Predators if the Sharks are on the outside looking in they can look back at
this game as when the train really slid off the tracks.
Final Thoughts: Sharks have been dealt a crappy hand by
the out of town scoreboard but they have not done enough to help themselves
either, while the previous two games were some of the most enjoyable Sharks
hockey I have watched all year it comes as a small consolation when the final
home stand record is 2-2-0, The Sharks now head out on the road on a trip that
will literally make or break their season. With the night games still in progress the
Sharks are left with a 15% chance at the playoffs, more trouble from the out of
town scoreboard it gets worse. With 4 more regulation losses this season is
over.
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