FIRE OWENS!!!!

I am not emotional right now. With five minutes left in the first period I looked at my wife and said "it's okay, this one is over". I knew it from the beginning. Michigan looked so much better. It was as if they(I am pretty sure they did) watched last nights game against Boston College. They kept our top line out of contention all night. We never had a chance to win this one thanks to an ineffective team effort. In my mind the only person who really put on a show worth paying for was sophomore goalie Joe Howe. Joe made stunning saves the night before and left me in wonderland. Tonight he followed the same format as last night: let an early goal in and then stop for a while. Unfortunately the rest of the team did not get on the same page and go for scores. It became very clear in the first five to ten minutes that Michigan had planned to dump and chase the puck. CC does not have a good defense so this puts the forwards on their heels and leaves only one man to make or break CC: the goalie.
From that point on, it was clear that this game was over. From a season long perspective, this post season run has probably done nothing more than delay the inevitable firing of Scott Owens. Owens has been on the job for 12 years. He has won the McNaughton cup honoring the regular season champions three times. He has been to eight final fives never winning the tournament. In 2005 he struck his career best by taking the Tigers to the Frozen Four. In that year, the frozen four consisted of all WCHA teams. For a $400,000 a year salary I would say that's pretty shitty statistics. For some reason the athletic director feels that keeping an alum as a coach is key. This is probably true because of the way the school has a block plan. A very vigorous six week schedule of classes. I won't get into how the school year breaks down. I will just say that a coach needs to understand this system to be able to coach at CC. By comparison, Owens' northern partner George Gwozdecky has won multiple Mcnaughton cups I believe two Broadmoor trophies and two national championships in a relatively similar amount of time. Mr. Gwozdecky makes $350,000 a year.
This leaves the question: why won't anyone wake up and fire owens? My belief is that what happened this season is what keeps owens afloat. He has a bad run of seasons and recruiting where the team flat-lines and then all of a sudden produces something special the next year. The AD see's this and bam, we have a reason to extend him. This same type of inconsistency is felt throughout the team. Last night CC throttled Boston College 8-4. BC is a top ranked team in the country, and we rocked them. Then the normal CC showed up tonight and flat lined.
This is a horrible excuse for a way to coach and needs to be dealt with. A goalie as a coach? C'mon, lets get real and get someone in here who has the experience to move this team. And lets do that now!