At 7:00 PM -0500 1/12/1998, VPPrice wrote:
> An example of this is Dave Hendrickson's re-cap on the MAINE, BC scoreless
> tie. He says about both teams, that there was "nothing left in their
> excitement tank" and it was a"snoozer for the first game of the league's new
> television package on SPORTSCHANNEL NEW ENGLAND". Yet, I've heard from other
> people that it was in fact an entertaining game and that Alfie was a
>thrill to
> watch!
...
> Hendrickson said, we "employed shell strategy," while Alfie said, "the guys
> did a nice job of clearing out the rebounds." My point is that Hendrickson's
> view is we were already down due to "attrition" and we had to play a
>"trap" to
> survive, not exactly positive.
 
I don't see a problem with this.  After all, Walsh himself apologized on tv
for the game being boring and said they had to play the trap to have a
chance.  Your issue might be with him since I suspect he said similar
things in the postgame press conference as well.
 
Dave is just reporting what happened.  I watched the game myself and it was
not one of the more exciting games I have seen until the third period --
and the vast majority of good chances were certainly BC's.
 
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