Are The Canucks Overthinking?
Posted by TheHockeyGuy on February 12th, 2010
Lies, damned lies and statistics: Mark Twain made the remark popular as a list of the three kinds of falsehoods there are.
The Vancouver Canucks are starting to think the same as Twain as the numbers pile up.
Outscored 10-1 in the first period so far after five games of an eight-game road trip. No lead to brag about except for the final 2:04 of the opening road game at Toronto 11 days ago. Seven straight games in which the other team scored first and 12 of the past 14.
“You can’t think in your mind what the stats are,” Roberto Luongo said after the Canucks fell 3-1 to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. “Thursday’s game [against the Florida Panthers in Sunrise, Fla.] has nothing to do with the last 12 of 14.”
Then what does?
Luongo thinks perhaps the players are thinking too much about that and, well, why shouldn’t they?
They’ve held meetings where the coaches point it out and the players talk about it among themselves.
And if Mikael Samuelsson finds twine instead of metal on his first shift, it’s a different game.
Instead, Martin St. Louis gets a break when Kyle Wellwood throws the puck away on a power play, and the puck gives a little jump just as he’s about to shoot and the short-handed goal stands up as the winner.
Click here to read the full article – By Gordon McIntyre of Vancouver Province
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