Detroit is One Game Away From Series Win
April 22, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Columbus Blue Jackets, Detroit Red Wings, NHL Playoffs
This was the first year that the Columbus Blue Jackets have ever made the playoffs and it looks like it’s going to be a short-lived run for the Cup. Unless something miraculous happens, they are about to be swept by the Detroit Red Wings who won their third straight game in the series last night and need just one more win to eliminate the Blue Jackets.
image: TSN
It’s sad because it was the first time a playoff game was played at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio and it was catastrophic. There, in front of the franchise-record crowd of 19,219 fans, the Blue Jackets crashed and burned, losing 4-1.
The Wings’ 4-1 victory was largely powered by Henrik Zetterberg last night who scored two goals who had the audacity to say the following: “It was an exciting game for the first playoff game in this building,” said Zetterberg, whose empty-netter gave him 30 goals and 25 assists in his 64 playoff appearances. The fans were excited. We tried to defeat that, too.”
Exciting for who? Certainly not the Blue Jackets or their fans. I’m sure it started out that way but I’m sure the mood changed somewhere around the second period when the third goal was scored against them. I’m seriously stunned about the performance of goalie, Steve Mason, though. I know he’s just a kid (a rookie) and he’s been battling mono but he had been stellar all season. What happened?
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