Missing the point
Top Five lost opportunities:
5) WHERE IT BEGAN -- Bridgeport's first really aggravating loss -- not counting Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, which was just a big loss to a better team -- was Oct. 20, when the Sound Tigers went 0-for-10 on the power play and lost in a shootout to Hartford. (1 pt)
4) HAWK-EYED -- Bridgeport took a 3-1 lead Jan. 14 against Providence at home on New Haven Nighthawks day. The Bruins came back and won in a shootout. (1 pt)
3) SLIPPERY SLOPE -- Bridgeport had a nine-point lead, had won eight out of nine... then lost ugly to Philadelphia. Was it the beginning of the end? Kinda. Two nights later, Feb. 23 at Albany, the Sound Tigers blew two leads and lost 4-3. Drew Fata nailed Keith Aucoin after the buzzer. Bridgeport is 7-15-0-2 since. (2 pts)
2) STARTS AND STOPS -- Bridgeport takes a 3-0 lead in the first period Nov. 10 at Philly, then blows it and loses 6-4. (2 pts)
1) HEAVEN AND HELL IN HERSHEY -- Back from 4-2 down, Bridgeport takes a lead with 3:22 to play March 31 on James Sixsmith's second goal -- and then surrenders two goals in 31 seconds. Sure, they come back and beat Albany the next day, but the damage is done. (2 pts)
(Honorable mentions: Nov. 5 vs. Hartford, two goals against in 2:05 and only an own-goal on a delayed penalty; Nov. 15 in the morning vs. Wilkes-Barre, a shootout loss after blowing two leads; March 2 at Wilkes-Barre, finally getting some days off, taking a 3-2 lead before losing 5-3.)
5) WHERE IT BEGAN -- Bridgeport's first really aggravating loss -- not counting Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, which was just a big loss to a better team -- was Oct. 20, when the Sound Tigers went 0-for-10 on the power play and lost in a shootout to Hartford. (1 pt)
4) HAWK-EYED -- Bridgeport took a 3-1 lead Jan. 14 against Providence at home on New Haven Nighthawks day. The Bruins came back and won in a shootout. (1 pt)
3) SLIPPERY SLOPE -- Bridgeport had a nine-point lead, had won eight out of nine... then lost ugly to Philadelphia. Was it the beginning of the end? Kinda. Two nights later, Feb. 23 at Albany, the Sound Tigers blew two leads and lost 4-3. Drew Fata nailed Keith Aucoin after the buzzer. Bridgeport is 7-15-0-2 since. (2 pts)
2) STARTS AND STOPS -- Bridgeport takes a 3-0 lead in the first period Nov. 10 at Philly, then blows it and loses 6-4. (2 pts)
1) HEAVEN AND HELL IN HERSHEY -- Back from 4-2 down, Bridgeport takes a lead with 3:22 to play March 31 on James Sixsmith's second goal -- and then surrenders two goals in 31 seconds. Sure, they come back and beat Albany the next day, but the damage is done. (2 pts)
(Honorable mentions: Nov. 5 vs. Hartford, two goals against in 2:05 and only an own-goal on a delayed penalty; Nov. 15 in the morning vs. Wilkes-Barre, a shootout loss after blowing two leads; March 2 at Wilkes-Barre, finally getting some days off, taking a 3-2 lead before losing 5-3.)
posted by Fornabaio at
11:33 PM
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Good to see you picked the Hershey game as your number one. We had a similar conversation on the forums and I said that I thought you could point at lots of games, but that outright loss to Hershey after the Sixsmith goal was when I really felt we might have blown the season.
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OneTigerFan, at 12:51 AM
Believe it or not, I started putting this list together (plus one of stolen points, too, just in case) when I got home from Hershey that night... Seemed like the type of loss that could be like that.
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Fornabaio, at 3:42 AM
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