Boston Gets Them All

One of each: that's not bad;

not bad at all...!

GOLD - Bergeron (Julien & Chiarelli too) 

SILVER - Eriksson with Team Sweden

BRONZE - Rask with Team Finland

CHOCOLATE consolation prize-medal: Kessel and Team USA 

(plus they got to keep Bieber - which is not so bad, hmm?)

No medals for Chara & Krejci: 

they just want the Cup! 

;-)

It was so nice to see Tuukka Rask frustrate Jonathan Toews (who had exactly zilch to do with Canada's, er, successes...) and, most of all, Patrick Kane on anything from breakaways to golden opportunities (er, not really; best he could have hoped for was either bronze or zilch which is exactly what he got, the brat! Go back to that lousy Windy City now, see if it dries out your crybaby tears now! And to think that they thought Sid The Kid to be the biggest crybaby on ice today... HA! Pat showed 'em now! Way to go, Pat!) and Tuukka did it all in the process of demonstrating how hockey is meant to be played to that bunch of arrogant, overconfident (yet slightly-deflated already and in the process of choking again) punks that made up Team USA... (No, there will no longer be Miracles on Ice: that was 1980, this is now! But that's, also, another story...)   Now that was for Boston: revenge for that last Cup final there... But this is not all there will be. Oh noooo; the entire Bruins collective wants revenge now - and they will get it. The rest of the NHL can just shut their yaps and pay attention to the next hockey clinic: courtesy of the organization that packs it all, right here!

Boston Bruins - all the way in 2014! 

Olympic Dreams

Best of luck to all the Boston Bruins 

representing their country 

at the Sochi Winter Olympics 

May they all achieve to their hearts' content 

(although it is impossible that they all come back 

with medals around their necks...!

And they know it!)

The Boston Bruins' organization already proved to be the classiest one of all, allowing their star defenseman Zdeno Chara to split with the club almost a whole week in advance so that he could have the honor of being the flag-carrier for the Czech Republic (as he is, also, their most high-profile athlete) during the opening ceremonies of these winter Olympics.  It can assuredly be said that no other NHL team would have agreed to this as fast as the Bruins did.  As it turned out, the Bruins did not need him in order to win those last two games remaining before the Olympic break: they won them handily,  3-1 over the Canucks and 7-2 over the Senators (the game against the Blues, in-between, was a fluke!)

Bergeron, with coach Julien and G.M. Chiarelli are on Team Canada; Eriksson, with Team Sweden of course; Chara with the Czechs as we said earlier; Tuukka Rask will play goal for his native Finland for the next seven days; and David Krejci is on Team Czech Republic, too, of course! (Not a single one on Team USA, for instance? Ah, but yes: former Bruin Phil Kessel is there; will likely choke, again, too.)

The Olympic Games - where hockey is played as if it was a true gentleman's game...! 

(Nothing like the barbaric, modern-day gladiator-in-an-ice-rink atmosphere in the NHL! But that's another story... for another blog... Maybe...)

Go, Bruins, Go - whatever colors you wear now!