If anyone calls this season anything but a failure, then you don't understand the concept of sports, no offense. You play to win the game. You play to defeat your opponents. No matter how good the game looked, no matter how many amazing chances you have, if the other team has more goals by the end of the game, you've lost, this sin't boxing, there are no style points. We're tied for last place, the same way the loser of the SCF are, but at least they get a special trophy for their efforts. It doesn't matter how great our regular season was, we're losers with this, plain and simple. And it's not shocking why AV has yet to win a Stanley Cup with some of the decisions he's made. I hope the team gets boo'd for the next 4 months for their effort.
I'm just upset about the effort tonight more than anything. This was a carbon-copy repeat of game 5, and it's disgusting we could pull something like this again. Hank, while superb at times, gave up a horrendous goal to break the 0-0 tie. And our offense was nowhere to be found.
This team has a major culture issue. And, to be honest, at this point, I wouldn't be upset if we do some significant rebuilding in the offseason. We have a ton of young talent as well as some guys who are better used as trade pieces, like Hagelin.
Hats off to TB, they deserved it and I feel no ill will towards them. They beat us fair and square this game, even with the benefit of one super soft penalty call in the first.
They were hungrier, plain and simple.
