Just got home. Oh man what a game. Thanks again for the tickets elk. You da man!!
I was sitting back behind the goal on the side the Blues defend twice so 8 or 9 goals were scored on the other end of the ice so I didn't have the best view of all of them. The one I did see up close was the third one on Allen and even though it is never good to get beat short side, that was a hell of shot by Okposo. I mean he had maybe a inch of space and he just roofed it. Hell of shot.
Other than that a few notes.
Steen was a man possessed tonight. All over the place. Easily our best player.
Pietrangelo was a monster on defense. Made a ton of nice plays in small space. Shades of last year.
Oshie had some real swagger in his game. Looked really good.
Backes, Stastny, Berglund and Shattenkirk all had really strong games as well.
The STL was good but seemed to lose energy as the game went on.
You could tell Bouw is still nursing an energy. He looked good but missing some explosiveness in his first couple of steps.
Stastny needs someone who can open up space for him to make moves. Lindstrom who I thought had a decent game just isn't that guy.
Why the refs would stop the play for Reaves to fight and then jump in before anything baffled just about everyone in the building.
We dominated the game for 50min it was the second half of the second period that we got in trouble. We just stopped skating for 10 minutes. Even my little brother who is 12 called the Isles goal(s) before they happened. His exact quote was, "Why aren't our guys skating, the other guys are gonna score if we don't start skating."
and I think that is it. It was blast thanks again elk. BTW we got a 2014-2015 Blues yearbook with a bunch of cool information as a door prize. I let my little brother take one but I think it is only fair that I offer the other one to you since it was your tickets. Let me know if you want it and I can ship it to you.
Good night guy and as always LETS GO BLUES!!!