Nightmare

Ever had that nice, genuinely sweet dream 

turn totally, utterly nightmarish on you - 

out of the... blue? 

Well, this is pretty much it now: 

the Boston Bruins had won 8 in a row 

(3 to eliminate Columbus; 4 to sweep Carolina 

and a 4-2 decision in game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals) 

before losing game 2 in overtime 

- but fretting it not, they had come back 

to win game 3 handily in a 7-2 rout of the 

brutish Blues - *in* St-Louis!  

And then... what happened? 

A few days later, after multiple miscalls by the refs 

and lots of dirty play from their opponents, 

the Bruins were in a 3-2 deficit -  

one that they courageously climbed out of 

with another convincing road victory: 5-1, in game 6. 

This set up a winner-take-all game 7, 

just like they had done in 2011 

against the heavily-favored Vancouver Canucks... 

And we all know what happened then... 

Alas... this time around... the tables got turned. 

The favorites were the Bruins - 

clearly the more talented team; 

speedier, better in all aspects of the game... 

SUPERIOR AT EVERY SINGLE POSITION 

with greater depth, too, and better coaching! 

The brutish black-eyed Blues 

were only good at one thing: 

the rough and tumble style 

their coach (interim coach!) 

had inculcated in them... 

A loser bunch, they were LAST 

IN THE LEAGUE... until they 

started playing like that 

in order to steal victory 

from their superior quarry! 

And let's face it: 

EVERYBODY in the league 

was better than the Blues! 

Until they started doing their 

impersonation of... 

the Broad Street Bullies 

or... the Big Bad Bruins. 

THAT is the ONLY WAY 

they actually managed to 

squeak by playoff opponents 

San Jose, Dallas and even 

lowly, hapless Winnipeg...! 

OTHERWISE... 

The Jets would have taken 

the Blues out - in 5! 

IF THEY PLAYED FAIR, 

WITHOUT HITTING 

THEIR OPPONENT 

EXCESSIVELY, 

AT EVERY CHANCE THEY GET, 

TRYING TO INJURE 

RATHER THAN MERELY 

"PLAYING PHYSICAL"... 

THE ST-LOUIS BLUES 

WOULD NOT BE ABLE 

TO COMPETE 

WITH ANYBODY 

IN THE NHL! 

How can we ever trust you again, DON? 
You start off the Hockey Night broadcast 
proclaiming you believe (...) Boston will win 
- then reveal, on Coach's Corner, that the 
damnable Binnington rookie goalie 
had told you, in the elevator before the game, 
that "we are gonna win the championship" 
--- oh, rrrrreally? 
This after this rag of a paper in St-Louis 
printed, ahead of game SIX, 
a letter from the Blues team prez 
(or whomever) stating that they had 
WON - already?!? 
AND THIS ISN'T FIXED??? 
Your DOG was named BLUE after all, 
DON... you're dead to me, CHERRY! 

Game 7 saw the Boston Bruins 

TOTALLY DOMINATE THE PLAY 

in the first period: 

but instead of leading 2-0 or 3-0, 

the blasted Blues got the lucky bounces 

and they got two pucks to tumble into 

the net instead...  

How discouraging and revolting 

is that... 

Alas, it was almost 

- ALMOST - 

a carbon copy of what the Bruins 

had done to the Canucks in 2011: 

with one BIG difference though... 

In 2011, the Bruins dominated play 

AGAIN: they deserved their 2-0 lead 

and eventual 4-0 win 

in the cup-clinching game. 

In 2019, the Blues do NOT deserve 

a lead here; they are being outplayed! 

The only time the Blues turn things 

around, is when they play rough... 

And on June 12th, in a game 7, 

you can believe that 

the Boston Bruins 

are tired of the rough stuff! 

But the damned referees 

do not call any penalties against 

the excessively rough Blues; 

and it goes on and on... 

The Bruins are worn down. 

AND YET - NEVER GIVE UP! 

Even when a 3rd lucky goal trickles in 

and a 4th dumb-luck bounce - 

(off the stick of a former Boston fan, 

nothing less; Sanford, Blues fourth-liner, 

grew up in the area 

and he sure was a fan - now a traitor... 

Name eeriely close to Ranford, too... 

WOW, eh?) 

THE BRUINS STILL BATTLE ON! 

For they know they can get it done: 

no matter what the odds are! 

They were trailing 4-1 in 2013's game 7 

against the Toronto Maple Leafs - 

THEY SCORED THREE GOALS TO TIE IT 

AND THEN WON IT IN OVERTIME 

WITHIN FIVE MINUTES...! 

Patrice Bergeron was there for all of that; 

he knows it can be done! 

He inspired his team to rise 

and take game 6 in St-Louis, 

depriving that entire town 

of the joy they thought a sure thing 

of seeing their team win it all 

on home ice - after 52 years of futility 

where even dreaming of this 

was futile in itself!  

BOSTON PULLS THEIR GOALTENDER 

WITH ABOUT 3 MINUTES LEFT! 

THEY SCORE! 

And it is Matt Grzelcyk who scores, too; 

he who had been the victim of a vicious hit from behind 

and had just spent most of the Finals in concussion protocol, 

being cleared to play just hours, literally, before game 7... 

HE is the one who SHOOTS A PERFECT SHOT 

into the top corner - for the Bruins' first goal! 

The Bruins' lone goal of this game 7... 

... sadness ...

INJUSTICE ON ICE 

I SAY! 

But, just like Chris Wagner in the previous rounds 

(and we never saw him in the Finals, after he got injured...) 

Matt Grzelcyk impressed upon us all what heroes 

these Boston Bruins truly are... 

He was one in the making from the very beginning 

And he will be one in Boston for quite some time now 

And there are so many others like that, on that team: 

Joakim Nordstrom, Sean Kuraly, Charlie McAvoy, 

Danton Heinen, Brandon Carlo, Torey Krug, 

Jake DeBrusk, Charlie Coyle... 

it is, truly, from top to bottom here: 

THIS IS THE TEAM! 

Shades of 1993, really - 

when the Boston Bruins knew 

THEY HAD THE TEAM 

to go all the way - and they were ripped off, 

stripped of their chance, in THREE OVERTIMES 

(those who know about it will get it; 

everybody else - google it!) 

 by a heinously jealous team 

of ruffians and misfits... 

much like the black footed Blues here. 

Know who else is dead to me - and to all of Boston, too? 

That's right, bro: Jayson Tatum! 

Oust him - tar and feather him on the way out...

Bring back Isaiah Thomas! 

Tatum was never going to live up to the legend of Reggie Lewis anyway... 

NEVER TRUST A JA(Y)SON! 

I always said... (not even Momoa!) 

Jason Terry sucked pretty bad, too... 

In time, this bad dream will be forgotten... 

Yes. In time. 

Right now, though, it is still too enraging to deal with 

for this is really... a nightmare alright. 

Not even close to what happened in 1993... 

THIS... IS WORSE. 

Because the Bruins were only ONE WIN SHORT. 

They had battled all the adversity there was; 

vanquished, thus far, in splendid fashion 

BOTH the NHL's poor officiating 

(and obvious blue push, in the later rounds...) 

AND the roughhouse, despicable 

"whatever it takes" tactics 

of a desperate to be relevant franchise 

that had never won anything 

in half a century... 

But you know what? 
The Blues didn't win anything. 
They did not win it - 
THEY STOLE IT.  
With unnecessary roughness, 
palliating for their lack of skill... 
THAT IS NOT A NOBLE VICTORY; 
THAT IS NOT A VICTORY AT ALL! 

And these Bruins will be back - 
and they will be truly VICTORIOUS 
- with their resolve, with their heart 
and with their grit! 

FOR THEY ARE 
WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT 
THE TRUE CHAMPIONS HERE! 

The Way... We Were!

Yeah, like... *he* could tell you all about that! 

Dreams Of Returning To Boston...?

''Well, I have my dreams - and they surely have me. I'll be moving on... on... I want them all!'' 
Paraphrasing here, the lyrics of an old song from parts much akin to L'Ancienne-Lorette rather than any town in the greater Boston area or in Massachusetts, so - suffice it to say, Patrice Bergeron might know what it's all about; he might recognize it. But few other Bruins might have a chance to... at all! It's not all that important right now, though...

Who hasn't dreamt of going back to Beantown? Once you've been there, been born there, lived there a significant part of your life...? I know I want to go back, too! Hence it is not surprising one bit that Jeff Gorton would want back in - into the city, into the fanbase, into the Bruins organization!

Those are rumors though - only rumors! But they make a hell (or a heaven) of a lot of sense!

Gorton basically built that Stanley Cup championship team of 2011, and all within a very short timespan, years prior, when he was acting as the interim G.M. after Mike O'Connell was dismissed and just before Peter Chiarelli was added to the mix with the mission to add the final pieces of that puzzle. And what did Pete add, of note? Mercenary marksman Nathan Horton. That's it. All the other pieces he added (Gregory Campbell, Michael Ryder, Tyler Seguin, Claude Julien himself... Brandon Bochenski?!?) have proven to wear out their welcome a tiny wee bit too fast... And, lately, the additions were all subpar, to say the least: Miroslav Satan?!? Reilly Smith, Matt Fraser, Joe Morrow, Brendan Connolly, Matt Mottau... Brian Rolston?!? Loui Eriksson doesn't count: he's a certifiable veteran! And though one still hopes that Connolly (and, maybe, Smith too) can blossom into lethal top scorers, in time...? That is, most unfortunately, less than certain, at this time!

Gorton, for his part, built the true core of the contending Bruins: he drafted, recruited or signed all of the following: Brad Marchand, Tuukka Rask, Milan Lucic, Zdeno Chara. Phil Kessel and Marc Savard. (Even though Chiarelli is often credited, totally wrongly, of some of those coups!) He had a hand in extending the contracts of other key figures, such as the goaltender that would change everything,Tim Thomas, and Bergeron himself. That was all back in 2006 - a year of transition, if there ever was one... And it's (almost) all reminded right there, on his short bio on the website of his current employer - the execrable New York Rangers. But let's not go there...!

Can Jeff Gorton accomplish his dream - this wonderful dream of going back?
Most importantly of all, though, should he be allowed to?
The Bruins have a perfectly suitable G.M.-to-be within their ranks already: home-grown talent, groomed within the organization at any rate, Don Sweeney! A teammate of team president Cam Neely back in the days when they should have won, at the very least, one cup (...) Sweeney would probably be as reliable a G.M. (ha, almost typoed that into a GEM here - lol) as O'Connell and, in retrospect, that is quite the compliment indeed. After all, what did good ol' Mike do, above all else? He got rid of that over-hyped, under-achieving perennial choker, Joe Thornton! He shipped him off to San Jose, where he has been choking ever since, allowing the Bruins to turn the page and find themselves a new franchise player: who turned out to be, arguably, Patrice Bergeron. (Though many will be of the opinion that the Bruins do it by committee - and I would agree with that wholeheartedly! Bergeron cannot do much by himself: he needs a Chara, Rask, Krejci, Lucic, Marchand, a hired gun of service too - in order to get it properly done! Franchise committee it is!)

I can see Sweeney being the guy who would pull the trigger on just such a deal, too: shipping off Lucic and, maybe, Marchand too, for some package with which to build from, just like in the much-maligned Thornton deal. And, hopefully, it would turn out much better than the Seguin deal, in the short term, too? Or Sweeney would meet the same fate as O'Connell and Chiarelli did, but that much faster than they did...!  My, how cruel this is: here the man hasn't even been hired as the G.M. yet that we're discussing the conditions for his dismissal already! Sorry, Don...! I'm on your side, really: I loved it when you were one of those ''big four'' defensemen, ever reliable, protecting the Bruins' zone: it was you and Garry Galley, Ray Bourque of course and... Al Iafrate? Michael Thelven? Gord Kluzak? Anyway...!

One can understand why Neely would want to have a chance to bring back Gorton instead of giving a chance to his old pal Don -a neophyte, basically- to fill this role.  Rumors are Neely is awaiting the Rangers' elimination in order to be able to speak to Gorton, as per NYR head honcho Glen Sather's wishes... That slithering snake-in-the-grass, Sather: he was a viscous scumbag in Edmonton and he is only a bigger one now, in New York! All Bruins fans should hate him with a passion! Who cares that he was a Bruin himself in his formative years, under the tutelage of the one and only Harry Sinden? Sather sucks - period! That he would prevent one of his underlings to achieve his homecoming dreams (that is assuming that there are such dreams in Gorton's head! Sure - there should be!) with the inane excuse that his team ''is still competing'' - what the hell has it got to do with front office personnel defections? The team on the ice would not even know, let alone be affected by it - come on! That is all hogwash and bulls*** coming from a master hogwasher (?) and bulls***ter known as Glen SATHER - that is what it is, I'm telling you, folks!

Neely has had other candidates in mind, sure: but one was scooped up by those pitiful, if hellbent, Devils (and he came from another pit, too - how ironic is that) while the other one is a mystery man who, I personally hope, will turn out to be... Don Cherry!

Just Do It - for Blue!

Alas, like it or not, Cam ''The Man'' Neely has to wait it out before he is granted permission to simply talk to Jeff Gorton about a return to this position he held so very briefly, on an interim basis, back in 2006...  And he might have to wait a while longer, to, as those other perennial chokers, known as Washington Capitals, and their own all-star franchise choker, Alexander Ovechkin, appear to be doing it all over again, in their series against the New York Rangers... Ah, those damn Caps: they seem to enjoy playing up to their full potential of mere spoilers whenever they come to face the Boston Bruins; but, then, whenever the stakes are really high, they will always fold and choke on the very spot! Just like Joe Thornton's Sharks. And, this time, it frustrates the Bruins organization and their fanbase on a whole new level: stifling their G.M. hiring process, which grinds down to a halt, unable to move forward because of them - and SATHER! (Yes, folks: feel free to think of Sather and of Satan in the same way, why don't you now...!)

But, one can hope that, maybe, even though the Rangers move on to the next round (and the Canadiens don't - bwah-ha-ha: CH-okers! They wrote the book on choking, actually: and the Price is always WRONG! But that is another story...) and NYC finds itself in the final four on ice (not the ''frozen four'' - that's the other tournament! They got so far only because they didn't face the Bruins! It was the only reason why they reached the Finals last year, too; only to lose so miserably to the Kings!) perhaps Glen ''Satan'' Sather will have a change of attitude, if not of heart...? And maybe, then, he will allow Cam Neely and Jeff Gorton to meet up - and talk business!  While his Rangers try and best the Lightning for the honor of losing to the Ducks in the big finale!  :-)

Yes - Jeff might yet make it indeed: and prove some old adage wrong in the process (you know which one: the one that has it that you can't go back or something...?)

Then again - I am not holding my breath on that one... not at all!

Dreaming... Of A Lot Of Scoring!

Isn't it beautiful to behold now: Tyler Seguin, the Rawhide Kid himself, shooting 'em precisely and accurately as his entire team appears to be firing off on all cylinders, winning games handily by such scores as 9-0 and 7-2...

Ah, don't you long for those days when the only lashes seen in these hockey arenas are the long eyelashes of Seguin groupies, trying to lure him to their beds? No tomahawk slashes from mischievous slow players trying to prevent greater talent from doing what they do best: carrying the puck forward and lodging it in the net! Don't you remember all those beautiful goals the Bruins scored on their postseasons of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and even 2013 and 2014... eh? Seguin was potting quite his fair share of those; when he was on his game, of course.  And there it is again: a hat trick for the kid! Way to go... kid!

No, this is not 2012 and defending STANLEY CUP CHAMPION BOSTON BRUINS playing up to their full potential: no, this is actually... Team Canada. 2015.

They beat everybody: USA, Germany, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Belarus, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Tyler Seguin (dare we say ''the once and future Bruin'' now? Hey - you never know!) has not the usual suspects as teammates anymore: those we won a Stanley Cup in his very first try at it. Instead, he is scoring alongside talent such as Sean Couturier, Cody Eakin, Tyler Toffoli, Aaron Ekblad, Jordan Eberle, Nathan (not Horton) McKinnon, Jake Muzzin, Matt Duchesne and even the execrable Claude Giroux. Hmm... Maybe the Boston brass should look into trading for one or two of those guys... eh?  Don Cherry would recommend so, I am absolutely sure about it!

Coached to score without regard to balloon up the margin of victory by one Todd McLellan, this collection of supposedly patriotic snipers truly seems destined for gold - unless the referees have something to say about that! Bad refereeing has been the only thing preventing Canada from raking in all the gold medals over the years, or so have alleged many beer-guzzling observers as the odd authentic sportscaster, at times. Regardless of the veracity of those claims, maybe this Toddster is the kind of coach the Boston Bruins should be looking at in order to fully exploit the offensive talents the organization already has on hand - as those they could be acquiring in the coming months, via free agency, trade or draft! Pastrnak, Spooner, Griffith, Khokhlachev, Ferlin, Robins (hey - he's a Bobby!) and Florek are all Bruins of the future who, along with the existing big league finesse players on the roster (need we go through the list again? Sigh! Okay, here we go: Krejci, Bergeron, Eriksson, Marchand, Connolly, Lucic, Smith, Kelly, Talbot and Soderberg (?) - for it is bye bye Paille and Campbell, for sure! And maybe a few more on this roster...)  so need a new system that deviates from the old one-goal defensive system Claude Julien seems to love so much; a new system that promptly and properly opens the floodgates for the offensive weapons on this team to score lots and lots more goals!

Like they used to do, somehow, back in the day... And that was not all that long ago, actually...!

McLellan: the Bruin coach to take the team in this bold, new offensive direction it needs to undertake right now! Well, perhaps... And, this time, not only Don Cherry might agree with me, but one Joe Haggerty, too! (I just like the fact the names rhyme, really, that's all: I do not now nor will I ever have the same degree of admiration for Joe as I do for Don - come on!!! After all, they call one guy ''Grapes'' and the other they call ''Hags'' - and that says plenty, if you ask me! But that's another story...)

One sees what the lack of scoring punch (or the lack of willingness to implement a system of play that calls for an offensive mindset rather a defensive one) can do to a team with higher aspirations: the Boston Bruins are certifiable contenders, they entered the disastrous 2014-2015 season as such and had won the President's Trophy the season prior! But they were inconsistent on the score sheet throughout the year - and wound up missing the playoffs entirely because of that!  Their detestable arch-rivals up north were getting by through stealing one-goal games with a truly exceptional (as in: it won't happen again) seasonal performance from their goaltender: but their lack of scoring talent caught up with them in no time come playoff time; they barely stole victory from Ottawa before being dumped by a true scoring machine such as Tampa Bay. Boston can compete with those high-octane scoring machines and is the only eastern team that can match the western juggernauts - when they play to their full offensive capabilities, that is!

They need this new direction and they need it NOW!
It is not too late to recoup what this team deserved to reap as long as the talented nucleus remains: they should have won more than one single cup between the years 2009 and 2014. And they can still get at least another one and match the extraordinary (and, yet, still underachieving) Bobby Orr era... which we celebrate the 45th anniversary of right now, hmm?

Burly Ironing...?

Warning:

This just exposes the dirty bruins
- SportsVids33

Yep, a comedian from comedy central who obviously knows as much about hockey as he thinks he knows about government (hint; not much). I am sure the Bruins organization has never been dealt such a blow by such a credible source before! I hope the organization and their fans learn a lesson from all this, or they may never be taken seriously by the comedic community ever again!
- Bruinology in reply to SportsVids33

What is THAT all about?
Just a little video found on YouTube - again.
The battle rages on, especially as the playoffs approach once again, and the rather dim chances of a rematch between Boston and Vancouver are there - no matter how unlikely it can be, in truth.
(I mean, Vancouver has so many opponents that can oust them before they make it anywhere close to a Final again: St-Louis, Nashville, Los Angeles, San Jose, Detroit and Chicago to name but those likelier to make the playoffs, at blogging time. Boston has a tough challenger in the NY Rangers - but they are not afraid of them nor of Pittsburgh. New Jersey, Washington, Buffalo and likely first-round opponent Ottawa shouldn't be that difficult for Boston to take apart in five or six games. The Bruins' true toughest opponents in the playoffs last year (Tampa Bay and Montreal) are not even going to make it to the playoffs, this year! (That'll teach them to try soooooo hard to stand in the way of the Champions!) And as for Philadelphia - their Flyers were defeated by Boston last year and the Bruins can do it again, if ever they meet the representatives from the so-called city of brotherly love on their path once more. Vancouver, defeating Chicago once again? Not a chance. But enough about all that...!)

This video that we were talking about - it's here (well, for now it is, at any rate!) and it is but an uncategorizable tasteless bit of vitriol against the Boston Bruins organization - as if this team, the championship team in defence of its title right now, was guilty of all the sins of the league...! Jon Stewart leads the charge here with a barrage of charges made with so-called ''evidence'' - all taken out of context. Great job, Jon!

The video was titled ''The Ironing Is Delicious'' to make use of the form of humor called malapropism which is nothing more, nothing less than the artform of misusing similar sounding words or outright replacing the proper word with a homophone, usually with hilarious results indeed. An example given by the guy who did this was attributed to the one and only (but no Bruin) Yogi Berra and his infamous statement about Texas: "Texas has a lot of electrical votes," he reputedly said, rather than saying "electoral votes". "The Ironing Is Delicious" is actually ripped off from The Simpsons though (how dishearteningly disappointing to see our opponents stoop so low) and therefore cannot be given much praise whatsoever. The video's uploader, the machiavelian MAKAVELI719696, really should have gone for something more original, with a double does of malapropism then, if he likes it so much...? Something like what I just did here, perhaps...? I've got a better one: how about ''The Ironing Is Delirious'' eh? That would have been GRAND. Too bad, MAKAVELI719696 - too bad that you're not me. But you're a Jon Stewart fan - quite obviously.

Let's have a look at this video, then - and we'll come right back after that, with Jon and friends...



So, Jon, you found contentment with taking things from left and right, plastering them all together into a nice montage that supposedly ''proves'' the Bruins' double-face policy (and that is simply not true: for, coach Julien said certain things and they were true when he said them. It was only afterwards that his players, fueled by a sense of retribution and justice, started those ''bite my finger'' shenanigans in the Stanley Cup Finals. As for GM Chiarelli's statement that ''our players are generally clean'' - that is true. The two incidents displayed after that are absolutely not evidence of the contrary: as Chara's much-maligned hit on Pacioretty was a routine play gone wrong due to the presence of a certain stanchion. The hit on Miller by Lucic came afterwards - much later on, in fact - and a goalie who knows not his place shouldn't complain after being touched. Do you even know of these aspects of the story, Jon? Perhaps your team does not research as thoroughly whenever the topic is not as much ''hard news'' material as political or economical stories, because you usually are as factual as CNN and Fox News, right, Jon? Just not on sports. But let's get back to that montage right now...
For then there is this ''un-self-awareness'' thing that you talk about, Jon, in an effort to be volubile - takes one to know one, Jon? Fact is, Brad Marchand plays smart, that is all there is to that - and, yes, it is smart to hurt instead of being hurt. Don't play innocent because any other field is as ruthless and cut-throat as hockey can be, and you know it, Jon! Coach Julien's comment was neither ''stupid'' as the sore loser Vigneault so distastefully labeled it, nor was it, again, untrue at all. Coach Julien was talking about hits in general, not so specifically the Salo hit or attempt to mash Marchand up against the boards that went horribly wrong for himself. And about Dan Carcillo being bitten - if he was, he, unlike Patrice Bergeron, totally deserves it! I don't expect you to know these details, Jon - nobody really does, because you're just a whimsical guy, not to be taken seriously.)

The most infuriating moment though is when you edit out Shawn Thornton's retort and replace it with an expletive delivered by Mike Tyson himself. For your information, Thornton is ten times more articulate than Tyson - and he could match wits with you, Jon, despite all the blows to the head that he has taken over the years. (By the way... When's the last time that you were boinked on the head, Jon? Back in kindergarten? Or just last week, when she found you watching porn? No need to answer that - ever.)

Shawn Thornton just took a split second to clear his throat and make sure that he really was on the air (don't Comedy Central give you any heads up on it, too, Jon? You are simply far more used to it than Shawn - but you would be just like a deer caught up in the headlights on the ice, if was open season on your skinny frame: you would never see that coming, would you, Jon? No - you wouldn't. Not even if you had one, two or ten full seconds to react! But that is purely theoretical now...)

Well, anyways, here is what Shawn Thornton really sounds like when he actually starts talking after that nano-second of a pause, Jon:



Like, you never had to collect your thoughts before speaking, Jon? It never happened to you? Maybe that would explain the crazy things uttered over the years, both by you and Colbert there, but that is another story, really - so let's not get into that foolishness here and now!

If anybody is to blast Thornton, it should be me - me or Don Cherry! Leave it to the experts and to each their field of expertise, okay? And to illustrate this so well, here is a video of one of the true hockey experts blasting Thornton, at first, as he analyses the proceedings as the Boston Bruins are about to even the series at three games apiece:



Don ''Grapes'' Cherry gave you a lesson of fairplay there, Jon! One you would do well to take into much consideration now... For, when you are part of mainstream media (even if it be cable clods land) you always have to give equal chances to both sides of the story - capisce, Jon? Cherry did just that - so much so that this video was posted by a Vancouver fan, actually! And labeled as something lambasting ''Thornton's douchery'' - not that Cherry calls it that, but he does address something Shawn Thornton did during the warm-up skate before the game. It was something many have done before though, over the decades, which is somewhat criticized by Cherry as something not to do. Later on, he condemns a dirty hit from behind by a Vancouver player on an icing call. No bias.

Got that lesson, Jon?

To finish in style, though, let's go back to the question of expertise for a second: for I wonder what is, exactly, your expertise, Jon? Is it politics? Not quite. Is it comedy? Well, just because you host something on Comedy Central since whenever it was, does not truly make a comedian out of you, by any definition of the word found in either Old English or current American slang. You would be a sports expert, Jon? You? Not possible.

Oh, and about the distasteful comments and classless statements - maybe that is your field of expertise indeed then? It certainly is your forté, apparently for you said it so yourself and I quote:
''I said it before and I'll say it again - go f*** yourselves''
Really, Jon? A TV host should say such things? I say no - a TV host shouldn't say such things, ever. Nor should he show montages that purposefully edit out the counterpoints in order to make fools out of people that you simply do not like.
What happened, Jon? Sports is not worth the same fair play treatment politics get or your TV pundit buddies get, even when it's obnoxious loudmouths such as Bill O'Reilly (he's no Terry) or Rush Limbaugh?

You can go f*** yourself, Jon!
(And, no, I am not contradicting myself here - acting all righteous and then stooping down to their level? No. This is totally within what I have defined to be normal behaviour for a luminous pundit blogger such as moi! Dishing out what they have had coming their way for a long, long time - in some cases.
Well... Case closed.)