Pens do not look worried to us, who know their faces well.

What we see is that Bylsma's gotta man up and insist on letting Fleury-- yes, really-- handle incoming pucks and the rest of the team GET UP ICE. Especially Sid, he's gotta get off D and go O. Crosby needs to be COACHED or he just wears himself out trying to play all positions at once. This is Bylsma's first playoffs.

And they need to rack up the goals in the first two periods. Detroit's few mistakes tend to cluster up in the first period, then Babcock tells them to play harder (per gameplan). Then in the second intermission he tells them what to adjust (change gameplan) and they do. We have to do OUR plan in the first 2 periods and never look back.

Look at the period-by-period stats-- it's in there. A close game.


THANKS, BTW, to friends for using this thread. The other one is too long to load for me!

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How did Murphy do, Mike? F is going to bed hungry and bummed.

~S~