hockeyes
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- Jun 15, 2013
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I hate how we start. Spotting the other team a 2 or 3 goal lead by the end of the 1st a stupid way to start games. If the game starts at 7:00, we seem to show up at 7:30. If it doesn't work against the dregs like the Coyotes and the Panther's, it's suicide against a team like Boston or Tampa in the playoffs. It needs to stop.
No team can play their A game for an entire 60 minutes every night in a league with this much parity, it's unrealistic. I'm sure Montreal fans are whining about their team only being able to show up for the first 20 minutes and how if they only could play the entire game that way they would have won. All teams are going to have stretches of the game where they are on the back foot and defending, good teams "weather the storm" more often than not by not turning it over when they do get possession and being in good positions defensively, Leafs didn't do a good job of that last night but Montreal did an even worse job.