Predators blow two goal lead; lose 3-2 in overtime to Thrashers

cause i didnt see him kick and was wondering why he didnt kick the puck forward and then either get a stick or get off the ice. he stood frozen for what seemed like an eternity. and i dont care how many points weve gathered lately, we still lost a game we shouldnt have lost even if the thrashers are playing good hockey of late. another multi goal lead coughed up. we used to nearly never do that.

Directly related to that, Nashville was outshot 37-29 tonight. The Predators can’t play like that with Pekka Rinne in goal, much less Anders Lindback. Lindback, to his credit, played well enough to win, but the team in front of him failed to come through. Again.

If we can’t hold a 2-goal lead against the Thrashers, how big a lead must we forge against the Wings on Wednesday in order to win?

Faceoffs the last two games have been terrible. Have to get that fixed. And no the entire loss cannot be pinned on Klein tonight but how come evertime there is a turnover in our zone this year I can close my eyes and point to Klein? And what was he thinking earlier in the game when he almost scored an own goal? At the very least he was gonna throw it out of the zone for no reason. Please get someone else to replace Klein he has cost us too many goals this year.

why did you leave the WHOLE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ICE OPEN for bogosian to take an uncontested pass and skate toward the goal completely unmolested.

Wilson should have stayed where he was instead of heading toward the puck…..

It’s all be said about the game winner… just a brain freeze on his part. Terrible.
But what about the game-typing PP goal? His effort to tie-up Ladd was pathethic… got beat to the front of the net and barely touched him as he sailed by. Feebly put his stick on top of Ladd’s as he pushed the puck in the net.

The bottom line on Klein is he makes me really nervous wherever he is on the ice — whether he has the puck and is about to cough it up or if he’s out of position when he doesn’t have it. I would much rather see Franson given the chance to be in that top 4 role, or bring up Blum. Regardless, Klein should not be receiving top 4 minutes under any circumstance.

He is a good player and athlete. It is his inability to make decisions in high pressure situations that is killing us.

I don’t know if he panics or what.

I really think he could be awesome, but his decision making in those pivotal times has seriously cost us points. I can’t think of another player that I feel has actually cost us points for something they did or didn’t do. I understand you lose as a team, but he seems to find unique ways to turnover the puck at the worst time.

Klein – Watch what he does. We’re all so busy blaming him for not doing anything right away when his first act was to actually look and see where everyone was. Burmistrov is heading to the bench directly in front of him, Enstrom is back on the blue line if Klein manages to kick the puck past Burmistrov, Eager is closing in on him from center ice and Bogosian is somewhere off to the far side. His teammates are standing still at center ice (Ward), Cube coming up the near boards, Wilson abandoning the far side and approaching. When Klein does finally do something, it looks more like he tries to put his right skate between Eager’s stick and the puck but does it late, stepping on the blade after the puck is poked forward … almost an attempt to let Cube get there that went wrong. It almost looks like SOB offers Klein a stick after the puck is on its way to Bogo along with the staff at the far end of the bench. No puck support, no stick from the bench (we can wonder what the communication situation was on both all we want), and nobody staying home on the far side all contributed as much as Klein.

On the first two goals, faceoff losses are to blame. Clean loss at the dot in our defensive end, two seconds later in the back of the net. Another clean loss in our defensive end, shot, rebound and goal in five seconds. Both start with the loss at the dot.

don’t go trying to be all analytical and objective…klein is obviously the worst D-man this team has ever had.

Ville Koistenen

It may be hard to keep your chin up after this one, but Nashville has earned 8 out of a possible 10 points in their last five games, and head now to Detroit to take on the Red Wings. The team isn’t mired in a slump, but another effort such as tonight’s will result in embarrassment at Joe Louis Arena.

Let us not forget the Predators were coming off another ugly loss the last time they visited the Joe. They can’t just play better, they have to play way better tomorrow night.