It’s amazing how often we see that though isn’t it, where a team suffering injuries to key players, goes on a tear, only to go on a losing streak once fall their stars return from injury. It’s as if all the plumbers that had elevated their game, go back to thinking, well now these guys can do it. We can rely on our skill again and give it the ice time the plumbers were getting They lose their peskiness. You'd think we'd stop being amazed at it by now. Its a thing now like first game back after a road trip.
But I cant help but remember that the ‘pesky’ label came about because we won games that we had no business winning. We were running around in our own end, dominated for much of the game, clearly the inferior team, and yet somehow, we pulled a win out of our butts.
Now it seems, while waxing nostalgically, we refer to that aberration portion of a season as: buying in to a 200’ game, playing solid defense, a time of great coaching, and being 2 star players returning away from a Cup contender.
Maybe splashing some cold water on the face will help. Being pesky wasn’t a compliment to how great we were; it was a testament to how often our hot goalies and some puck luck pulled undeserved win after win out of our butts. I don’t think pesky is something we should want to return to.