It did seem like most of the third period, but there was also a span of time in the second when it occurred.

at this point to displace Arnason and Tucker would be welcome. They are both worthless. And I noticed Tucker was on the 2nd PP forward unit last night. That couldn’t be a good indicator of forward depth, could it be?

I’m with you.

How’s Ledin doing? Anyone know? I don’t follow LEM.

One thing that Dater wrote in his blog that really showed his budaj-bashing i’d like to mention,

Budaj kicked the puck all over the place against the Sharks, leading to rebound goals that killed his team. He’s always out of position on the rebounds he creates, too.

Expanding on what Jibbles has said which is pretty spot on about rebounds, in my experience as a newbie goalie any rebound you give up that is not directly in front of you will put you out of position and since the D’s not jumping in to clear the puck or th opposing forwards it almost always goes directly to an unmarked opposing forward who can just tap it in and there’s very little Boods can do about it. Even Patrick Roy’s left gigantic rebounds before, every goalie does it and 9 out of 10 times the D’s the one who saves them, our D can’t do that so it leaves Boods with no chance.

But Dater also continues to rate Budaj’s play as basically an F..

His play hasn’t been consistent at all this year, but he has shown flashes of proper goaltending, provided the defense doesn’t abandon him.

You can’t judge a goalie’s performances when the players in front of him are so inconsistent. Budaj needs to know what the defense is going to do in order for him to know where he needs to position himself.
For example: If he knows the defense is going to defend the pass, Budaj can prepare himself for the shot without too much worrying where all the other opponent players are. If the defense “sometimes” defends the pass, he doesn’t know what he’s supposed to think and can’t prepare himself for ANY situation.

I also think that extensive shotblocking makes it harder for Budaj to find consistency in his game.

OK, so he did mention the Raycroft crap fest….but still you get the point.

Is there a Janeway facepalm out there (since we’re running the gamut on Star Trek captains)?

I just didn’t like that one as much.

I don’t know about the epic fail part, if we lose a few more games, especially because of piss-poor defense i’d say it’s an epic fail. It wou’nt be long before they have to decide whether to continue on and hope for the best or blood some younger players, have a rebuilding year, as sad as that would be for Sakic and would probably make his decision to retiore easier, and go for Tavares.

Yes we are

starts throwing towels randomly