Stanley Cup Final
Perhaps after last night’s embarrassing 4-0 rout of the Whalers ‘Canes at the hands of Edmonton, some readers will be kicking themselves for not heeding my advice.
Truthfully, I thought the Oilers were done. But they’ve proven their tenacity by winning the last two and forcing an exciting game 7 tomorrow night for the whole cookie jar. Few teams, or rather none, have come back from such a deficit to win.
In other sports news, yesterday’s 1-1 tie between the US and Italy was probably the worst example of World Cup officiating I’ve ever seen. I didn’t know that Italians were such good actors. He stubbed my toe! Red card. What a joke.
Locally, I watched the Martens Volvo Grand Prix of Silver Spring bike race today. To be honest, I’m a newbie in town and wasn’t even aware of the event until I took a walk and saw the hay bails and heard the racers whizzing by. Sorry, I should always carry my camera or I would have taken some photos.
Start your engines folks, the final Stanley Cup finals will fire-up at 8:00PM Monday.
Those last two games have been great, even with the blowout Saturday night, it was still great hockey. Lots of hard hitting from Edmonton. Tonight’s game shouldn’t disappoint either. I find it hard to believe that more people don’t like hockey, but they can watch cars drive in circles for 3 hours.
I couldn’t agree more, with all of your points. I was turned on to Hockey back in Michigan in the 90’s when the Red Wings won back-to-back cups. The rivalry with Colorado was tremendous–you gotta love a game when even the goaltenders skate out to center ice to duke it out.
Game 7 was great. Carolina looked like they had seven guys on the ice through the first two periods. I would have liked to see the cup go to Edmonton, but I have no problem with a team like Carolina winning it. Just as long as it’s not the Stars, Wings or Devils.
Great game. I’m kinda glad that the ‘Canes won–if for no other reason than I think Brind’Amour deserved a cup after all his years in the league.
Watch what you say about my Wings. ;-) Which reminds me, Aaron Ward scored the first goal for Carolina.