Very impressed by Florida tonight. I remember when we lost to SJ, someone here was telling me that it was understandable, that we were tired playing our 3rd game in 4 nights. I was like WTF, we didn't even play the night before, is it too much to ask to be ready to play the worst team in the league? And now Florida, also 3rd game in 4 nights, having played last night and played us (supposedly a much better team than SJ) comes to our house and played great, well enough to win most nights. We're also as rested as can be and also at full strength and they're not, geez I do NOT want to play these guys in the first round.
Having said all that, huge win tonight. Biggest game of the year and Stolarz was beastly, on one hand you'd want the rest of the team to play better but on the other hand, I don't care if the goalie wins it for us as long as we win. Don't want to go to that well too often though, the goalie needs to have some easier nights too so that he doesn't burn out so we do need to play better.
Marner was fantastic, really hope he can somehow sustain a high level of play and not fade after 86 games, we'll find out soon enough. And that Marner to Knies play, that was one of the prettiest goals of the year IMO, both showed high level skillz on that play. Knies looking like a force!
On to the next one, GLG!!
