1) Mighty Mights could have gotten off more than 2 shots on 6 power plays. The Canes PP sucked ass. As it usually does.
2) Lindstroms and Drapers goals should have never happened. Irbe looked like he had money on Detroit with those save attempts
3) Lindstoms and Drapers goals should have never been needed. The score should have been 5-1 at that point. 3 open net shots missed that are normally made 9 out of 10 times. Plus some other lucky saves by Irbe.
And as an aside, and I think most sports fans will agree with me, The Sports Gods do not like "early calls". What I am talking about is when Thorne and Clemment kept harping on Carolina only allowing 2 or fewer goals in 9 straight games. As soon as they said that I knew Detroit would score 3 or more. Same thing happened against Toronto. They kept talking about how Irbe had never had a playoff shutout. Well, what do you know, Toronto scores with 8 seconds left. Early calls assure the opposite outcome.
I'll give you this, partially. Realize that sometimes it has a lot to do with the defensive side. The wings had several power plays with 0 shots too.
2) Lindstroms and Drapers goals should have never happened. Irbe looked like he had money on Detroit with those save attempts
That's a paltry excuse. Irbe got beat on those goals by great shots. They were not shots that just fluttered by his glove, but bullets that I bet clocked more than 90+mph. Any goalie would have had a hard time. And Irbe did a great job this game, again, at keeping the score low. He made two spectactular saves on Federov.
3) Lindstoms and Drapers goals should have never been needed. The score should have been 5-1 at that point. 3 open net shots missed that are normally made 9 out of 10 times. Plus some other lucky saves by Irbe.
Three? I think I could agree with you on Federov's, but I don't get where the other two come from.
The only thing that's pissing me off about this series is how the refs are calling it. I saw atleast 3 penalties that I believe where lame.