#64....Calgary. PRESSURE DROP

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Stream Of Consciousness:

- Yesterday was the 400th straight sellout at the Xcel Energy Center for a Minnesota Wild game. The most misleading facet of this whole "accomplishment" is that a sellout constitutes X amount of tickets distributed, not X amounts of butts in seats. Because trust me, being a season ticket holder, there definitely ain't packed houses every time I've gone to a game.
- If I didn't know any better, you would have thought this team was playing for a Top 5 Lottery Pick in this year's Entry Draft. Did we trade away any sense of urgency at the Trade Deadline?
- Signs things won't end well: being down 2-0 three minutes into the game.
- If this team only had to play the last 50 minutes of a game, we'd have a playoff spot locked up already.
- I've already begun to hear second guessing about how we should have traded Owen Nolan, based on the results of the last two games. Guess what? Whatever return we would have gotten wouldn't have helped immediately anyways, so its pretty much a moot point.
- In case you haven't seen it already, go check out Matt Cooke's dirty hit on Marc Savard. I would think that such an immediate example of a head shot should hasten whatever motion enacted at the GM meetings currently going on in Boca Raton.
- Where on Earth would this team be if we still had Benoit Pouliot? And if he had spent the entire season in Minnesota, Guillaume Latendresse would be on pace for 50 goals.
- Finally...I suck at math, but I'm wise enough to know that to go 14-4 or 15-3 in the final 18 games for a team that can't put two complete games together back-to-back is slim to none. And slim is already hailing a cab.

Next On The Rocket Docket:

The Florida Panthers are in town tomorrow. That means I'll get to watch another mediocre Eastern Conference team beat us in person.