When It Rains, It Pours

I’m not a huge Marty Turco fan, but it’s hard not to like him on a night like this. Dallas wins 6-0 over the Predators. So what did Marty do differently tonight? He looked calm. He didn’t try and do too much. He got lucky when Nashville hit the cross bar. Add those three things up and you get Turco’s first win of this year’s campaign.

First Period (0-4)

Simple pass from Mike Ribiero and Brendan Morrow buried it up high. It either caught the crowd by surprise or the broadcast was slow, because the crowd seemed to take a while to get going after it went in. 39 seconds later, Brad Richards tapped one in after Loui Erickson pulled Dan Ellis out of position. Erickson put us up by three after James Neal simply put it on net. Pekka Rinne replaces Ellis, but the results were the same. Morrow tapped in his second of the frame, making it look easy, off a pass from Richards in tight on the power play.

Second Period(0-5)

Morrow missed his hat trick when his goal was called off by a Nashville penalty. Erickson’s counted though, large bounce off the boards right to him in front that he leaned down to pick off the ice and put up high.

Third Period (0-6)

Toby Peterson had an amazing tip on a Karlis Skrastins shot to ice the 6-0 victory. What made it even better was the fact that it was scored when FSN was showing the behind the goal view. Seldom see that.

-Dallas is now a first period team, having double digit shots in all but this game’s first period this season. Large departure from how the team used to play.

-Perfect on the penalty kill tonight (a first) bringing us up to 27 in the league at an even 65 percent.

-On the other end of the special teams play, we’re 10 in the league at 26.1 percent on the power play.

-Brad Richards is looking like a Conn Smythe winner.

-Nicklas Grossman leads the league with a +10 rating.

-Nashville’s coach looks weird. Almost like a turtle without a shell. (Although we can’t be too sure what’s under the suit)

-Mike Modano sure looked comfortable up in the suite.

-Wayyyyy too many empty seats at the AAC. Come on guys.

-ESPN is hyping this kid up as a future star. You make the decision.

Up Next:

Friday night the Boston Bruins come to town. They are middle of the pack, but I like Marc Savard, and Tim Thomas is pretty darn good. Not trying to be negative off the big win, but it’s time for our first game without gaining a point in the standings. Boston 4 Dallas 2.