My glass is half full...how about you?

Ok so we dropped a second straight shootout loss last night, both of them we surrendered the lead, both of them to divisional opponents. Not a great showing, but....and here's where I'm probably going to get some disagreement...not that terrible either.

First off, both teams we played are good teams. The Lightning have been in the top half of the conference this whole season pretty much and have been in the middle of the divisional fight the whole way. Carolina is one of the bubble teams that quite honestly if some teams in the top half get cold they could surrender their spot to Carolina quite easily.

Though we surrendered the lead and that's not good look at it from another direction. If the roles had been reversed and we had come from behind to win the games in a shootout as fans we'd be pretty darn happy right? There would be some comments, of course, that we shouldn't have fallen behind to begin with or that we should have converted on chances we had during the game. How about giving some credit to the fact that we played a couple of darn good teams...and honestly both teams, on both nights played their asses off.

I dont' think anybody could be disappointed with the effort level of the Thrashers for either game this week and for the most part people played pretty darn good I thought. If any one thing that happened in both games that needs to be addressed it would be the turnovers. In fact, every goal scored in regulation time against the Thrashers on both Wednesday and Thursday were directly due to turnovers.

The other thing that was a little disappointing was the Power Play, a little flat this week. The fact is though folks, that the team played well..and you're not going to win every game..nobody is that damn good. We came away with a point for each game..and that's still better than getting nothing.

So for all the doomsayers out there...take a look at the standings..watch how well the team really is playing...overall...we're doing just fine.

On another note...ESPN actually showed some footage of Thrash being arrested...we're getting national attention for the marketing campaign..it really is creating a buzz.

Holy shit folks!!!...do you know what all this means??...We may actually start becoming a legitimate hockey organization...where's my heart medication??

So how about you...is the glass half full...or half empty in regards to this week?