I don't want to talk about it.

Ever have those days where you just wake up pissed off at everything and everyone?  Yah, I'm having one of those days, and it's not even hockey's fault.  Ok, maybe a little.

"The score was closer, but I thought (Friday's) game was more even," said Tri-City coach Jim Hiller, whose team lost back-to-back games for the first time in the playoffs. "I really thought the inability for us to score on our power play -- we've had one of the top power plays all year in the league -- and tonight especially, we didn't make key plays when we needed to make plays. All year long we've relied on that power play, and tonight we didn't get anything going. That would have been the difference to get us back in the game."

"I thought it was a close hockey game," Williamson said. "I thought we got timely goals and timely saves. Tri-City definitely had another level tonight. They won a lot of races to pucks and battles on the boards early in the game especially and Jonesy held us in."

"I thought tonight he (Pechurskiy) played really well when he came in," Hiller said. "He made a lot of saves, and I thought he did a great job."

"He is a bigger guy (Jones), has some good size, he's quick and he's was on Team Canada for a reason," Lazo said. "He's a phenomenal goaltender. We just have to get more pucks on net and more traffic than we have been."

"Our power play has been terrific for us all year," said Williamson, whose team was 0-for-4 on the man advantage. "We had some looks, but I thought we were trying to be too cute and hold on to the puck instead of letting it do the work for us. The tendency when you have a long power play like that is to think you have more time than you have. We just having to be willing to move the puck a couple times and get it to the net and bang away at one."

"We usually start quick and score the first goal, but that obviously hasn't been the case here two nights in a row," Hiller said. "A key goal by them on a turnover -- I thought up until that point we were playing pretty well. We shot ourselves in the foot and got the building into the game and us on our heels."  (Tri-City Herald)

Moving on to what the Calgary paper had (it's not pretty):

Well, if you’re a Tri-City Americans aficionado, and you’re not queasy about rooting through goo, there were tiny nuggets to be found in the Dumpster of defeat Saturday night.

Goalie Drew Owsley lasted into the second period.  (Calgary Herald)

Ouch.

Tri-City coach Jim Hiller was still trying to sort out things in his head following the game.

“I thought Calgary had more pressure in our zone tonight than they did (Friday) despite the score,” he said. “An inability for us to score on our power play right now . . . give Calgary credit, I guess, but we didn’t make key plays when we need to make plays and all year long we’ve relied on that power play and tonight we didn’t get anything going.

“Tonight, that would have been the difference in the game.”  (Calgary Herald)

Unfortunately, you do have to give Calgary credit.  They've managed to make a good team look...well, foolish.  Maybe that's not the right word, but it's what comes to my I'm-really-pissed-off-today mind.

There seems to be controversy around the Shinnimin hit.  It's another something I don't want to talk about.  Primarily because I haven't seen the hit, so I have no room to comment on it either way.

Whatever, here's to hoping my day improves.