http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/CondorsTalk/43542 A couple of hours have passed since the Condors opened the first-round ECHL playoff series against Las Vegas with a 3-1 loss and we're still wondering what happened to that team that won 19 of its last 26 games, seemed to score at will and played with an edge? Maybe the bus picked up the wrong team for the roadie to Las Vegas. Certainly, the Wranglers played a strong overall game, especially in their own zone where they allowed just a handful of scoring chances. So give them credit. But the Condors gift-wrapped all three goals — a clear breakaway, a nifty 2-on-1 that Yutaka Fukufuji had no chance of stopping and a 2-on-1 that turned to a 3-on-2. On top of that, Fukufuji stopped two other  odd-man rushes, a partial break and a couple of point-blank shots. Holy lack of defense! And I don't  mean just by defensemen. Las Vegas goaltender Glenn Fisher stopped 28 shots but was seldom tested. On the few occasions where he had to make a big save, he did. But the Condors did not have a single odd-man rush or breakaway the entire game. The first line of Dave Bonk, Mark Derlago and Mike Wirll  ... well, they weren't very good anywhere on the ice. But they weren't alone. This was a pretty solid team effort at not bringing the passion necessary to a playoff game. The will to out battle the opposition was certainly not there on Friday night. The Condors reached the playoffs by feeding heavily on adversity. They got a healthy does of adversity on Friday night. Maybe that's just what they needed to remember how they got to the position they're in — the playoffs. If so, we should see an entirely different team for Game 2 on Saturday night.     A couple of hours have passed since the Condors opened the first-round ECHL playoff series against Las Vegas with a 3-1 loss and we're still wondering what happened to that team that won 19 of its last 26 games, seemed to score at will and played with an edge? Maybe the bus picked up the wrong team for the roadie to Las Vegas. Certainly, the Wranglers played a strong overall game, especially in their own zone where they allowed just a handful of scoring chances. So give them credit. But the Condors gift-wrapped all three goals — a clear breakaway, a nifty 2-on-1 that Yutaka Fukufuji had no chance of stopping and a 2-on-1 that turned to a 3-on-2. On top of that, Fukufuji stopped two other  odd-man rushes, a partial break and a couple of point-blank shots. Holy lack of defense! And I don't  mean just by defensemen. Las Vegas goaltender Glenn Fisher stopped 28 shots but was seldom tested. On the few occasions where he had to make a big save, he did. But the Condors did not have a single odd-man rush or breakaway the entire game. The first line of Dave Bonk, Mark Derlago and Mike Wirll  ... well, they weren't very good anywhere on the ice. But they weren't alone. This was a pretty solid team effort at not bringing the passion necessary to a playoff game. The will to out battle the opposition was certainly not there on Friday night. The Condors reached the playoffs by feeding heavily on adversity. They got a healthy does of adversity on Friday night. Maybe that's just what they needed to remember how they got to the position they're in — the playoffs. If so, we should see an entirely different team for Game 2 on Saturday night.     en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:50:16 PDT