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Absolutely glorious.  More analysis, please, especially from folks who were there. I was on an airplane home to Ithaca and so missed it entirely.  Got home right before the winner.

Brutal.  One shot on goal in the third period? When trailing entering it? In your own rink?  Huh?  For weeks I've been worried about the team's shot totals; even in victories the figure was often alarmingly low, and one sensed they were living on borrowed time (and Iles's stellar work).  It spells trouble going forward.

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Quote from: RichHI guess it's our job as internet forum people to debate if it's because of a lack of conditioning, "focus," "heart," or maybe the 4 bodily humors aren't in proper balance or whatever stupid thing people want to blame for losses this year

Humorism?  Pfft.  Everybody knows it's the æther, Rich.

The Law of the Internet dictates that every loss must be followed by rending of garments, wailing, and breast-beating.  Also, offended, indignant, sweeping statements that the team losing is a crime against the fanbase.  And after all we've done for them.

No doubt there are several reasons why the thing we used to know as the elynah postgame thread has entered into a sad and seemingly irreversible decline over the past two or three seasons. But surely one reason must be the habit of people to offer preemptive statements such as the above.  Suggest that perhaps Schafer has limitations (as well as strengths) as a coach?  Hint that the team lacks offensive punch and can't score even-strength goals?  Speculate that such-and-such a line combination isn't working, and that such-and-such a forward belongs nowhere near the power play?  Unacceptable, I tell you, unacceptable.  In Schafer we trust--end of discussion.