[Devils-list] Heartless, Gutless, and Just Plain Stupid

[Nicole Goulet]

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From: "Rick Berk" <rick@rickberk.com>
To: <devils-list@badweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Devils-list] Heartless, Gutless, and Just Plain Stupid


> As much as I hate to hear Clement and Thorne harp on this, the fact is
that
> Patrick gave the Devils a gift tonight.  We can only hope, the confidence
> they got from seeing "Saint Patrick" as less than perfect is enough to
> finally get them playing Devils hockey the way they did in the third.

   Hell, Saint Patrick has done this like what.. THREE times already on the
series no? About time we burned his ass :P. And yes, I do hope it finally
wakes the Devils up so they play better hockey the rest of the way.


> I am not naive though.  The Devils have yet to play a complete game.  They
looked
> terrible out there tonight.

    Well, they did suck at first but they were dominating Avs there for some
of the 2nd period. And the Roy blunder gave us life the rest of that 3rd...
To be honest, we've been hardly sharp for 60 minutes but COLORADO has been
guilty of the same thing. So I guess it's only appropriate the series is
tied 2-2 ;).


>Going back to the Roy gift, you could also say
> that the Devils D gave Colorado two gifts.  If Stevens doesn't over commit
> to Hejduk in the first, he probably stands up Blake at the line, and if
> O'Donnell plays Drury instead of the puck, it probably rolls in on Brodeur
> harmlessly. I think we should be able to take heart in the fact that the
> series is even at 2 and the Devils have not played well yet. >>

   Yep, can't give them those kind of breakaways. If we do that again in
Game 5, we are in trouble for sure. But hell, at least we have a chance and
aren't down 3-1. I don't feel nearly as depressed as I did before, because
there is still room for improvement from our team yet they are tied in the
series.


>The question mark of course is Arnott, who was
> a no show in this series really, and of course took a puck to his melon
> tonight. How bad is he? Can he play next game?  if he does, will he be the
> Arnott we are used to, or the pussy who skated for the first three games
> (goal notwithstanding)?

Interesting how Syk and Elias woke up tonight withOUT Arnott.. hmm .. weird
shit.. But I think we're not better off without him than with him :P.