Wings lose

Well, it turned out that 4 goals was too many for the Wings to overcome.  After going down 3-0 after 2 periods, the Wings scored early in the third to close the gap, but were down 4-1 only a few minutes later.  That goal ended up being the difference.



There are 3 things to take away from this game:

1 - The Wings left it all on the ice.  They played a good game all the way through.  It was a couple bounces one way that led to the goals against.



2 - The Wings last lost the Western Conference Final in 1996.  The two following years after that (1997 and 1998) the Wings hoisted Lord Stanley's Chalice.



3 - The officiating needs some serious work.  I don't know if Colin Cambell picks refs based on the size of his afternoon dump, but these were some of the worst.  They didn't cost the Wings this game, but they were just some of the worst calls I've ever seen.  Selanne's stick gets caught in Lidstrom's legs and Nick gets the interference penalty.  Later, Franzen's stick gets caught in a Duck's legs and he gets a hooking call.  Lets hope that they do something about this during the offseason.



The Wings do not need to change much this off-season.  I know it sucks to start thinking about that now, but the team is there.



Now....



LETS GO SENS

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