What's Up?

What's Up?

The answer? Nothing.

I watched most of the Bruins game last night. I missed the first period and the last few minutes of the third. They played hard. They played well. They outplayed their opponent (who happened to be the best team in the East) and got slammed 4-1.

They have now lost eight straight games. Over that span they have scored 12 goals. Given that statistic, are we surprised by this streak? Are we surprised they've dropped all the way to 12th in the East? Nope.

Last night the Krejci/Ryder/Wheeler line was awesome. Krejci had the B's lone goal... scored on a five on three power play. Yup, the only way this team could score last night was to have a two man advantage. For the rest of the game the three of them were skating like mad men. They were impressive in everything they did, especially the way they consistently failed to score on gift wrapped chances. How many perfect passes leaving a winger all alone in front of the net could they fail on? There was one instance where a back door pass that beat Caps goalie Jose Theodore had me literally jumping up ready to celebrate only to have Theodore magically make the save... He was good last night, but he wasn't that good. Lets also not forget that Krejci had a penalty shot and missed the net. We just have no forwards who are capable of scoring. All of the offensive magic they had last year is gone. None of them can get it done. And don't go looking for some magical trade to fix all of our problems. Ilya Kovalchuck is not going to cure what ails us. He's just going to cost us a fortune in future and then sign with some one else in the off season... probably the friggin' Rangers or Canadiens, just to spite us.

Oh, and the player on the team with the second worst +/- rating, Matt Hunwick who after a -2 last night is now -11, was paired with the player who has the worst +/- rating on the team, Dennis Wideman who after a -2 last night has a -15. Am I the only one who thinks that particular defensive pair should have been rethought? Probably not.

The team is saying that after the last three games they are playing well and think they've turned a corner... but somehow the end results are the same. I think I read that this is the longest winless streak the team has suffered since the 55/56 season? And still Dennis Wideman is in the lineup every night? The team futility record is 11 straight without a win. That happened in the team's first season, 1924/25 I think. Here's to breaking records then.

Once again I was too tired to get my fat ass out of bed this morning to play the RPM Challenge game. It's February 3rd and I've pretty much decided to screw it this year. Why bother.

To top it all off my 19 month old nephew is going to have a chest x-ray today because the doctor didn't like what he heard while listening to his breathing yesterday. He's had ear infections and fevers over and over for the last few months. Now this. I am really worried about the little guy. I want him to get better and stay that way. Make it so, doc.