Comments on: A Bad Pattern http://www.tedstake.com/2009/03/17/a-bad-pattern/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:26:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jeff http://www.tedstake.com/2009/03/17/a-bad-pattern/#comment-14649 jeff Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:45:20 +0000 http://www.tedstake.com/?p=3665#comment-14649 Not showing up for games against "lesser teams" is a season long pattern. This isn't the flu, injuries, or any other "there's no excuse" excuse. One or two losses to bad teams? Fine. It happens. A slump at some point in the season that includes losses to bad teams? Again: it happens. But TWELVE LOSSES in games against the likes of the Trashers and the Leafs? If the Caps had 3/4ths of the points they gave away this year, they'd be in first. Read it and reap: Oct 10 - Thrashers 7-4 Oct 23 - Coyotes 2-1 Nov 20 - Kings 5-2 Nov 24 - Wild 4-3 Nov 29 - Blue Jackets 3-0 Jan 9 - Blue Jackets 3–0 Jan 13 - Oilers 5–2 Jan 20 - Senators 3-2 Feb 5 - Kings 5-4 Feb 20 - Avalanche 4-1 Mar 5 - Maple Leafs 2-1 Mar 16 - Thrashers 5-1 TWELVE LOSSES: 48-21 Average score in all games: 4-1.75. Not showing up for games against “lesser teams” is a season long pattern. This isn’t the flu, injuries, or any other “there’s no excuse” excuse. One or two losses to bad teams? Fine. It happens. A slump at some point in the season that includes losses to bad teams? Again: it happens. But TWELVE LOSSES in games against the likes of the Trashers and the Leafs? If the Caps had 3/4ths of the points they gave away this year, they’d be in first. Read it and reap:

Oct 10 – Thrashers 7-4
Oct 23 – Coyotes 2-1
Nov 20 – Kings 5-2
Nov 24 – Wild 4-3
Nov 29 – Blue Jackets 3-0
Jan 9 – Blue Jackets 3–0
Jan 13 – Oilers 5–2
Jan 20 – Senators 3-2
Feb 5 – Kings 5-4
Feb 20 - Avalanche 4-1
Mar 5 – Maple Leafs 2-1
Mar 16 – Thrashers 5-1

TWELVE LOSSES: 48-21

Average score in all games: 4-1.75.

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