from Cam Cole of the Vancouver Sun,
It is hard to single out the one reputation that will take the most unmerciful beating after the Anaheim Ducks’ 5-3 capitulation to the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 7 of the Western Conference final Saturday night at Honda Center.
Will it be that of coach Bruce Boudreau, who now bears the unenviable distinction of having coached the only two teams in NHL history to lose home Game 7s in three straight postseasons --- and whose troops once again fell apart so inexplicably, so abysmally?
Will it be Ryan Getzlaf’s? The Ducks’ captain manfully took the blame for a lousy Game 6 … then was on the ice for the first three Chicago goals Saturday, losing Jonathan Toews on the first and a battle to Johnny Oduya on the third.
Or will it be that of the Orange County market itself, embodied by those lukewarm Ducks fans who weren’t passionate enough to snap up tickets to Game 7 of what had been an epic series, with a berth in the Stanley Cup on the line?
The first two, quite reasonably, will wear the responsibility for the loss. The Ducks had no answer for Toews.
from Mark Whicker of the LA Daily News,
Create an Account
In order to leave a comment, please create an account.