Slumps aren't defined by lazy play. That third period, and part of the second in game two were the only times the entire series this team has been skating. As I said in the playoffs thread, they got complacent and can't get their heads back in the game.
Funny thing too... if you told me at the start of the year we'd win the Scotty Munro trophy and go to the finals, I've said that was an awesome season. But to watch just how poorly this team has played in the finals, it's all worthless. Three incredibly awful efforts to stand on the edge of completely undoing nine months' work.
Backlund did look very good, again, however.
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