And so ended the dream
of a REPEAT...
Or that bastard Backstrom...!
Or... Semin (no, the joke is too easy)
Or any other ''top Crapitals mainstay'' - no.
In the end, we were undone by a mere ward -
one that was aided in his fiendish deed
by a former ally - Mike Knuble,
of all imaginable, possible people...
Knuble - KNUBLE - is another traitor
in the same vein as Bill Ranford,
Sergei Samsonov and, uh,
Brad Boyes?
Knuble had been with the Bruins when they
boasted talent such as Glen Murray,
Joe Thornton, Sergei Samsonov and himself.
Brian Rolston was part of that group, too -
the underachievers group
of the early 2000s.
Rolston came back to Boston
and he did his best this year,
slowed down by age as he is
in an ever-speedier NHL...
Knuble? He did too much.
This team you're with now, M.K.
it will not make anything out of this.
You know it.
You just prevented the Boston team
from achieving more,
that's all.
You prevented the Bruins
from cementing their claim,
building a dynasty
in the midst of the
Parity Age -
something even the damn
Canadiens of the 1950s
or Oilers of the 1980s
would have been
totally hard-pressed to achieve
in the exact same circumstances.
Boston would have done even more
than any of those other dynasties
if they had not been ripped off
first by Montreal in 2008,
Carolina in 2009
Philadelphia in 2010
and, now, you in 2012.
Boston won in 2011
amongst the stiffest competition
the likes of which those other
''dynasties'' had never seen -
except in the Finals, maybe.
Boston saw the stiffest competition
in all four rounds, in 2011!!!
It cannot be any other way
in the Age of Parity...
Now, Washington,
you stole this series
and are ill-equipped
to steal any more:
maybe another,
but it is most unlikely another after that
- much less reach the Finals.
Boston could have -
they had done it before,
so recently, so they know;
they know what it takes!
They should have done it again.
Maybe they tired of it,
knowing all that it takes
to accomplish it.
Maybe, this year,
they had less drive
as last year.
due to the ultimate
sustained effort that was given,
they may have hoped,
if only unconsciously,
that it would be easier this time out?
And the kingdom was lost
for want of a goal -
a single goal...
And to see not one but two
former Boston Bruins
among those blowhards
that stole victory from us
(Knuble - and Dennis Wideman)
It just adds disgust
to the disappointment.
Now no further disgust must be meted out,
please, as some peabrains have tried
to confound with inane notions of
''karma'' (they spelled it ''charma'' - lol)
on how Tim Thomas brought this
upon himself by refusing to shake hands
with a black President, Barack Obama,
and the Bruins lost their next game then,
in Washington too...
And so, karma struck for real
when it was a black player,
Jolly Joel Ward,
who scored the flukey goal
that made the big difference here...
Nonsense!
The Boston Bruins defeated themselves
more than anything here:
as they played with less
desperation
than their opponents did:
as Chris Kelly said,
''we've been through this before,
there's no reason to panic''
Well perhaps there was.
Their own experience
from last year's battles
and since 2005 really
proved to be a disservice,
this time out...
And, perhaps, the darn
opponent did want it more,
this time out...
And as far as karma goes -
wasn't losing the game right after
the White House visit
-and controversy-
ENOUGH ALREADY...?
But enough of this nonsense:
that was not karma!
But if we speak of an omen, now,
that is a different story...
For I knew this was a bad omen:
Zdeno Chara should have skipped
this rather odd chance to underline
any vague, passing resemblance
that Andrew Ference might have
with Kate Winslet
(it's all in the
eyes, methinks)
and focused rather on the
stunning similarities
between usual partner
Dennis Seidenberg
and one
Jason Statham:
This film opens NOW, ironically -
just a mere few HOURS really
after the despair of Game 7...!
Maybe Dennis Seidenberg and Jason Statham
are indeed one and the same man...?
Shoot'em up in DC, D.J -S.S.!
Now that would have helped the cause immensely -
rather than doom or jinx it...!
The Stanley Cup would have been SAFE...!
2012 didn't have to be like 1912,
y'know...!
And these faithful fans didn't have to go home
teary-eyed at all...
One can dream on though -
what could have been, had
Nathan Horton, Marc Savard
and Adam McQuaid
been in the line-up...
What could have been
had the power play produced
at the most crucial time of all,
in the last minutes of Game 7...
Sure, the Boston Bruins did win it all in 2011
without a productive power play at all
(thanks, Tomas Kaberle!)
but such a stunning feat
could obviously not be repeated -
it wasn't fated to be repeated.
The Boston Bruins remain the
champions -
until a new one has been decided,
at any rate...
The Boston Bruins remain champions
no matter what -
in our hearts,
in our dreams,
just because
we know better
than what our eyes saw
on that night
of April 25th
2012...
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NOTA BENE:
The pictures in this post belong to all of their respective owners, which are:
- so now why not just
GIVE ME ALL A BREAK, WILLYA? MY TEAM JUST LOST... OKAY?
...
