And first, the bad news, from last night:
| Western Conference Quarterfinals, Game 1 | |
| Calgary Flames | 3 |
| San Jose Sharks | 2 |
| (Calgary leads series 1-0) | |
One of the worst, clumsy, undisciplined, lackadaisical games I have seen the Sharks play all year. You don’t get away with a lot of those in the playoffs, so burning one off in the very first game is generally a bad idea.
Now, the good news from tonight:
| Western Conference Quarterfinals, Game 2 | |
| Calgary Flames | 0 |
| San Jose Sharks | 2 |
| (Series tied 1-1) | |
MUCH better game. Still not seeing a lot out of Jeremy Roenick or Joe Thornton, and I was hoping I would see significant contributions from both. But I needed to see that they took last night’s crap performance as a wake-up call, and they did not disappoint. Goaltender Evgeni Nabokov was friggin’ brilliant, including one save that I would find video of and link to, had the game not just ended. Watch this space tomorrow, maybe.
(EDIT: Here you go. 3:52 in.)
Anyhow, the good guys pulled out the split at home. Would have been nicer to get ’em both, but hey.
Game Three is Sunday night in Calgary, 7:00P, on Comcast Sports Net in the Bay Area, CBC in Canada, and Versus in the rest of the United States.