So after another intense (and fast) season: Baltic Sea Eagles missed playoffs.
What is the reason why Baltic Sea Eagles didn’t make to playoffs? That one moment where the chances is lost? Minutes where important part of game is played and we didn’t play them?
Do you want know? (Sure, why not?)
That one point was our away game against Sjukstugan. To be more precise the last 12 minutes. You can also watch match report here, but I will tell the main parts:
We lead 3-1 in third period (time 48:00) as we take interference penalty and 30 seconds later a delay of game –penalty, so their power play 3-5. And you know what? They score twice in 26 seconds! And game is tie.
We have been a lead last 40 minutes and now we face a new challenge: Must break their momentum and start the game over. We manage to do that and game was fighting (in our end) to the last moments.
But then @Filariou (1. star of game) passed through 2-3 our defense players to @Rimpe (2. star). Which you can guess make Sjukstugan lead first time in match at time 59.17. I personally was playing good game between the posts before 3-4 goal: 13 saves out of 16. We have nothing much to do in the last seconds.
Even today I’m having small nightmares about that goal, I could have saved it. Even as game was played in February.
So those 12 minutes was crucial to our journey, lost 2 points and missed playoff spot by one point. That tells something about how tight games was in this season (Sjukstugan finished 2. in our Pro group 1). And to playoff-teams: Don't underestimate your opponents, they can suprise you.