About 20 minutes to puck dropping, and unfortunately this is a much different atmosphere than Tuesday. Where the seats were packed long before the game started then, Nationwide is 70% empty right now, with the majority apparently still outside, perhaps engaging in the consumption of an adult beverage or two. I am sure the energy [...]
April 23rd, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "own zone"
Time For A Deep Breath . . .
So Games 1 and 2 have not gone according to plan, from the Blue Jackets’ perspective. In fact, pretty close to as far from plan as could be expected. Detroit has played like, well, Detroit. When Detroit does that, virtually every other team in the league becomes spectators, to one extent or another. The Jackets [...]
April 20th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 2 comments | Continued
Sunday Night Check In
Wife and I were victimized by the rather freakish snowstorm that hit certain parts of the midwest last night and early today. So, our rather simple 7:50 AM flight from St. Louis to Chicago, then Chicago to Columbus, turned into an 11:45 flight from St. Louis to Chicago, followed by a flight from Chicago to [...]
March 30th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 3 comments | Continued
Getting Better . . .But No Goals Yet
A more Hitch-like period, and we started to get some momentum and possession time toward the end of the period, until the penalty. Good kill going, but great save by Mason on Weiss. Much improved in the faceoff circle, and tighter defense. We are slow on the battles to loose pucks, and are weak on [...]
March 22nd, 2009 | Jeff Little | 1 comment | Continued
Need To Finish
Though the Jackets dominate the play for much of the first stanza, they trail on the scoreboard 1 – 0. We had the first 9 shots of the period, but only lead in shots 10 – 9. Ahead in hits, 12 – 9. No penalties or giveaways, but trailing in the faceoff circle 11 – [...]
March 21st, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
Ran Out Of Steam . . .
We might have been able to predict this one. 5 games in 8 days, consisting of Detroit (twice), Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago. 4 consecutive wins, 2 on the road. A Detroit team angry, wanting revenge for the 8 – 2 drubbing last Saturday. Then, it was Detroit making mistakes, and the Jackets taking advantage. Tonight [...]
March 16th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 5 comments | Continued
Sanity Check
Our young guys got a taste last night of what happens if you play tentatively. Good lesson, and time to move on. Due to work commitments, I came in toward the end of the second period. Climbed in the car just as they announced Williams’ goal, and got home to see Nash’s goal and the [...]
March 6th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 2 comments | Continued
Beaten At Our Own Game
The Jackets came out of the gate last night, acting as though they expected a game very similar to Edmonton — sort of a feeling out process in the first, followed by a ramped up style of play. They were half right. The Vancouver game was similar to the Edmonton game, in the sense that [...]
March 2nd, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
Clutch!!!
Ladies and Gentlemen — please be seated, and Professor Hitchcock will review tonight’s game with you and explain just how and why that was the finest example of how Hitch Hockey is played that the Jackets have ever put on the ice.Oops — I guess Hitch can’t make it — something about being in Alberta, [...]
February 27th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
Misfire
This one will be a head scratcher to those who did not witness it. Anaheim was grossly outshot, outhit, out face-offed, out-everythinged on the statistical side, except the score. Proof once again that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Clearly, the mental toll of the past 9 days finally caught up with the Jackets [...]
February 22nd, 2009 | Jeff Little | 1 comment | Continued
Out Of Gas . . .
Remember that purring car I wrote about last night? Well, it ran out of gas tonight in a 5 – 2 loss to St. Louis. Zero even strength goals by the Blues. We were a step slow all night, and the Blues came out with high intensity (and a substantial number of cheap shots). That [...]
January 4th, 2009 | Jeff Little | 3 comments | Continued
Out Gunned. . .
A poor showing by the team tonight, all the way around. Sure, we got jobbed by the NHL officiating crew again (see below), but that did not cost us the game. Here is what I saw:Poor Energy — We took the first 10 minutes off, and LA didn’t. Result was 2 goals against, and Mason [...]
December 24th, 2008 | Jeff Little | 0 comments | Continued
Game Effort, But No Breaks
The Jackets put on a game effort tonight, but were just too wounded to bring it home. As Mason has done for us in several games, Bryzgalov won the game for Phoenix tonight. We out shot, out passed, out played Phoenix everywhere except on the scoreboard. Killed them in the faceoff circle, pretty much a [...]
December 21st, 2008 | Jeff Little | 1 comment | Continued
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