commentary...

the last two games of the Red Wings/Sharks were mirror images of one another-one good,and one bad-for the Red Wings... Sharks losing Ryan Clowe for game six were more of a factor for the Sharks than i thought,because he was the grit for the team... the Sharks played lousy,scoring only one goal in entire game,being out-shot in every period,and by twenty shots in total(45-25),and Howard had a great game,stopping 24 of 25 shots,and making spectacular saves throughout game... Sharks played defensively,trying not to lose,and not win game... Antti Niemi had first two very good periods,but was peppered by 32 shots,and the way the Sharks,and Jimmy Howard were playing in the other net,the Red Wing were going to score more goals than the Sharks that night... three goals(Henrik Zetterberg,Valtteri Filppula,and an empty net goal,by Darren Helm,in 8:17,of time,in third period ended it for the Red Wings... now for game seven,losing Todd Bertuzzi,and Dan Cleary during the first two periods,to injury,and to Jiri Hudler's elbow,when Hudler basically ran over Cleary,in front of Jimmy Howard,did not help... all three goals,by San Jose,were caused by turnovers,by Red Wings,and the Red Wings' defense was not too good,in front of Howard,but Howard almost bailed them out,but the third goal really was the real killer,because puck went off Howard's right thigh,or pad,and got behind him,and was tapped in,by Patrick Marleau,for the game winner... Marleau was called "gutless",by Versus' commentator,and former San Jose Sharks' player Jeremy Roenick,and he proved him wrong,by scoring game winner... what a move JR!!!!!! thank you for giving Sharks bulletin board material in between games... honestly,the Red Wings made two defensive turnovers in front of Howard,and both pucks ended up in back of net... Howard had a good game,but needed to very good,but was just good... i can not blame Howard for loss,but the Red Wings were just horrible in their own defensive end,and the Sharks were forcing the game down the Red Wings' throats,by getting to the pucks first,and just out-playing the Red Wings,in front of Howard,and Red Wings gave up two very bad turnovers in their own defensive end,and that was that... even two beautiful backhand goals,by Henrik Zetterberg(who turned over puck in front of Howard,to Logan Couture,who shot the puck up high past Howard for second goal of first period,at 19:01,of first period),and Pavel Datsyuk did not help,when the Red Wings' defense basically sucked throughout game...