{"id":864,"date":"2007-04-19T06:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T10:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/19\/clean-sweep-four-and-out-for-the-thrashers\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T06:42:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T10:42:02","slug":"clean-sweep-four-and-out-for-the-thrashers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/19\/clean-sweep-four-and-out-for-the-thrashers\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean sweep (four and out for the Thrashers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly I am not a hockey fan and only follow the sport from a distance.\u00a0 With that said, I am not sure what the hell happened to Atlanta.\u00a0 How did they go from two close games at home (4-3, 2-1) to a total blowout in New York (7-0), followed by last night\u2019s third period collapse ending in a 4-2 loss?\u00a0 I guess the last one is not fair because they did not collapse, but when you are fighting against elimination, it is hard to overcome going down early in the third period (at least that is what I assume).<\/p>\n<p>If I did follow hockey maybe I would understand happened to the Thrashers.\u00a0 As it stands the only thing I can figure out is that the Rangers had a power play % of 20.8 compared to 5.9 for the Thrashers.\u00a0 Maybe that is enough to turn this one into a sweep?\u00a0 Or maybe it was a complete lack of playoff experience by the Thrashers who were making their first ever playoff appearance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admittedly I am not a hockey fan and only follow the sport from a distance.\u00a0 With that said, I am not sure what the hell happened to Atlanta.\u00a0 How did they go from two close games at home (4-3, 2-1) to a total blowout in New York (7-0), followed by last night\u2019s third period collapse &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/04\/19\/clean-sweep-four-and-out-for-the-thrashers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clean sweep (four and out for the Thrashers)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}