BY LES BOWEN
The way Dave Evans sees it, if the Philadelphia Wings somehow could get a lump-sum payment containing all the luck they didn’t enjoy in compiling a 2-5 record, they would shoot right past the host Baltimore Thunder in tomorrow’s regular-season finale and right into the Major Indoor Lacrosse League playoffs.
If the Wings lose, Baltimore advances to the playoffs.
“We’ve had no luck,” said Evans, the Wings’ coach. “Realistically, we could easily be 5-2 now. It’s frustrating.”
But Evans and the Wings aren’t sitting around replaying the tapes of their three one-goal losses to the Washington Wave. Instead, they are focusing on beating the Thunder so they can get into the playoffs, where they probably will play . . . the Washington Wave.
This might not seem like all that appealing a notion to most people, but the Wings really do believe in luck – that luck was the difference against Washington, all three times.
“It’s not that difficult from a psychological standpoint, because we believe we could have won all those games,” Evans said. “Two of them went into overtime, and the other was our first home game, in which we played really poorly . . . Our offense is much better now.”
But to get that final rematch down in Landover, Md., next week, the Wings have to stop Baltimore. They have confidence in their ability to do that, since their only two victories of the season have come at the Thunder’s expense, 12-7 and 14-3.
“We have to stay out of the penalty box and get good matchups on their big men – they have good outside shooters,” Evans said.
(Philadelphia Daily News, February 26, 1988)