All Posts Tagged With: "backman"

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Nothing Is Ever Easy . . .

As the 3rd period was beginning tonight, my thoughts were along the following lines: “Gee, this is great. A 4 – 1 lead after playing two great periods of hockey, and no need to have the cardiologist on call, for a change. We always dominate the third period.”My profound apologies to the CBJ faithful for [...]

February 19th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 1 comment | Continued
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A Well Crafted Victory

If there was ever a Hitchcockian win to be witnessed, tonight’s 2 -0 victory over Atlanta was it. Solid goaltending, stifling defense, a timely goal, no panic, effective penalty kill. Sure we whiffed on some opportunities in the offensive end, but so did Atlanta. This is a game the CBJ of old loses more often [...]

November 23rd, 2008 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued