July 08, 2013
July 04, 2013
July 01, 2013
'Nuff Mulling Over Broken Dreams!
Bleacher Reports well, er, reported it for all doubters and detractors to read and see: the worthier athletes on that ice, the Patrice Bergerons and Nathan Hortons, played hurt. They played like the true warriors that they are, battling on against all odds, willing to give it their all so that their team, the best team on the ice (need we emphasize it again?) would not be cheated of their rightful second championship in three years.
And yet, as we all know it, it was to be in vain for the REAL champions were robbed by a pair of flukey goals late in game 6 - earlier in the series, they could have easily won either games 1 or 4 (aye, if you're not getting what we're screaming here, aye: the only game we concede would be game 5, which ended, incredibly enough, by a score of 1 to 3 for the wrong side. That is the ONLY GAME the damnable BLACK HAWKS took, in any way, shape or form: and, actually, in retrospect, I demand a recount as well as a review of all Chi-goals in game 5 - dammit! All we need to do is overturn biased, not to mention profoundly inept refs' decisions, and wave off all three goals, and the Bruins win 1-0! And let's not solely rely on the wiki for this either, I say, folks...! Yeahhhhh... Or, better still, in the spirit of not mulling over this no more, let's just move on...!
Patrice Bergeron's sacrifice, especially, was nothing other than Heroic with a capital H: he had suffered a broken rib and torn cartilage and muscles in Game 5 and yet he had still suited up for the next game - so was his Will To Win. He then suffered a separated shoulder in Game 6 but stayed in the game. Through all this, Patrice Bergeron had also been found to have a very small puncture in his lung, which might have come about when he got a nerve block, too. They even worried about him having torn his spleen! He was collecting all sorts of painful reminders that this is, indeed, an extremely rude and taxing sport! And yet, he came back for more: he came back to help his team prevail - and they, sure as hell will burn with a cold flame at the End of Time, should have done just that!
Private to all this, most probably, it is no surprise at all that goaltender extraordinaire Tuukka Rask was in total shock at the turn of events this time out: one comment sums it up well, back on that BR site - ''Great playoff run for the Bruins but all I can think about is Rask saying “Oh Jesus” ~ Nik Wallenda''
In 2011, Tuukka had seen how resilient and resourceful his teammates truly were. Again, in 2013, he knew NOTHING (nothing short of being deathly ill, anyways) could possibly prevent these Boston Bruins Warriors from lacing them up and coming out with, at the very least, their B-game...! Tuukka knew, also, that the team had actually vastly improved from their spectacular performance against the highly-overrated Canucks of 2011 - they had ditched a most lamentable liability in Tomas Kaberle, their power play was considerably more of a threat than it had been throughout the 2011 playoffs *and* they replaced inconsistent winger Michael Ryder with either Jaromir Jagr, Carl Soderberg or Kaspars Daugavins - your pick! In any of these cases, we have got to think it was an improvement - we simply have got to!!!
In addition to all this, Tuukka knew what it took to win it all: he had witnessed what it took for Tim Thomas to get it done, in 2011 - he was ready and poised to repeat the exact same thing in 2013! (Indeed, it would have taken wins in both games 6 and 7 to hoist the cup again, just like it was required in 2011 - what a remarkable coincidence! The Boston Bruins organization would probably have distributed less Stanley Cup rings all throughout the organization this time around, though: not 504 of them as they had done two years earlier, which is an NHL record.)
Tuukka was robbed, ultimately, and he did not deserve this at all: not after passing the test of endurance and avoiding temptation of buckling under pressure in round one versus a surprisingly tenacious (even though inferior) Canadian rival, just like Tim Thomas had done in his own first round against another inferior Canadian rival, in what was the 33rd confrontation between the two teams, back in the first round of those now-fabled 2011 playoffs... Tuukka had bested the second round opponent with ease, proving to all foolish naysayers his superiority over the rival netminder they dubbed a king when he had never been crowned (whatsisname - ah, yes: Lundqvist! And Rask was a ''Duke'' at best, eh? HA!) just as Thomas had done to that execrable lucky bastard from Philly in 2011 (well, he had been lucky in 2010; but not in 2011, he wasn't! Ha Ha Ha! Now what's HIS name, again, HUH? Well, this time, we won't even BOTHER recalling the bastard's handle! For the Victor is always the one who writes History - and whose name is solely remembered, too! ;)
Finally, Tuukka had even improved on Timmy's performance, in the third round, of course: he completely shut the door on dangerous opponents while Timmy had trouble getting past the Lightning - of all things! But pass through it he still did, as we all recall with a tear in our eye...!
There was no indication at all that Tuukka Rask could not will the Boston Bruins to a championship in games 6 and (alas, necessary it was) 7 - just like Tim Thomas had done in 2011. The mistake everyone made - including Tuukka himself, yes - was to discount the possibility of a couple of garbage goals going in and altering the outcome that IT SHOULD HAVE HAD...
However...
The Boston Bruins will get through this - as they always do. (Just as I used to sing it, back in the 80s and 90s even, folks: Win or Lose, Bruins Will Bruise! Ok - maybe this song is better to convey the idea... All right then: try this one.)
They've improved the team some more, if you can believe it: and you better believe it! Dumping Jagr in favor of their first choice all along, Jarome Iginla... Dumping inconsistent Peverley and immature Seguin for reliable Loui Eriksson and ''moldable'' Reilly Smith... Finding an even better back-up for Tuukka Rask in one Chad Johnson! They also dumped Daugavins (you can have him back, Ottawa!) and kept Soderberg - the heir apparent to David Krejci (who, himself, is the proud and fine successor to Craig Janney - or, better yet, Adam Oates, if you have your Bruins lore right!)
Hence, the team is, overall, better than ever - and their purpose includes, now, VINDICATION! For they are, without a shadow of a doubt, THE REAL NHL CHAMPIONS! Chicago just stole it from them...
The Boston Bruins will get through this - and be back more dangerous than ever, in 2014!!!
Mark my words!
Luminous Luciano Has Spoken!
Sempre Por O Melhor!
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June 30, 2013
No White Hawks Dream Come True - Ever!
It wasn't the Boston Bruins that missed a golden opportunity in this year's Stanley Cup Finals, folks. No, not at all; it was, in fact, the Chicago franchise that totally blew their chance to redeem the entire ChiTown -notoriously renowned as it is for being infested with liars, cheaters and slimebuckets of all shapes, sizes and ages- by becoming the complete antithesis to what their counterparts who played baseball back in 1919 were - and will be forevermore, in the minds of so many...
They were the Chicago White Sox of their day - and they became the Black Sox.
In 2013, the Chicago Black Hawks could have become... the White Hawks.
As the Black Sox turned ''black'' by throwing the World Series, for money, the Black Hawks would have turned ''white'' (or, dare I say ''incandescent''... or ''radiant''... or even ''luminous''!?) by ''fixing'' the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals the right way: for the joy of the Boston Marathon Bombing victims. By allowing the Bruins to win, as they should have, by not scoring garbage goals in excessive numbers (two in the last minute of a game come to mind here) and by not stealing victory when it was clearly not merited, the Chicago Black Hawks would have erased that stigma that has been branding all things Chicagoan ever since the days of Giovanni ''Johnny'' Torrio, the inept mayor Wentworth, Al Capone & Murray Humphreys! The Black Hawks could have and should have bowed out of the 2013 Finals and handed over that ''cup'' to the better city, which so recently suffered unjust and outright savage senseless attacks that cost innocents dearly. What better way to pay homage to ''Boston Strong''...? And, in doing so, the Black Hawks would have, verily, become winged angels of sorts: ''White Hawks'' by any other name...
But they didn't - now, did they?
Once they got to the Big Dance once again, they could do only one thing: think of themselves and rob their nobler opponent of the victory by any means necessary. Garbage goals that could have easily not even counted were the deciding factors: it was, perhaps, acceptable back in 2010 against Philadelphia, the city of false brotherly love (and other fallacies) - perhaps.
However, this year, stealing victory from a cleaner city is simply not right, Chicago. Boston's fine population was literally torn into by those blasts back in April - they deserved this championship as rightful compensation! You are ready to dive in boxing rings, Chicagoans; you dive all the time in the ice rink, too, in order to prevent superior shots from penetrating into your net... You had to take a dive in games 6 and 7 (or, truly, games 5 and 6) and allow Boston to raise another title over their weary shoulders, a mere two months after the tragedy and terror (as the Boston Globe phrased it) lived through on the 15th of April of this year. Tragedy and terror that has left its mark forevermore indeed: some men and women, in the prime of their lives, having lost either an arm or a leg... Their brief moment of joy, when they could forget this sad new reality that is theirs for the rest of their lives, was when they were watching their team rise to the fore, raising hope in their heart of a better tomorrow, if only for game time or so... The Bruins (and all other Boston teams) needed to provide this all-important diversion for these unnecessary victims at that crucial team - and they came through brilliantly; prevailing against all odds in their first series, as they had dug themselves into quite the corner there... Outplaying rivals from the most evil town, bar none: New York (even Chicago doesn't come close; ChiTown's number 2 in this case - a shitty position to be in, usually, but, hey, for one thing, in this case, it makes sense. And secondly: it is where they deserve to be!) before sweeping over-rated foes that were both familiar and infuriating with their sheer arrogance: the Pitt. The Boston team came through it all with inspiring flamboyance - exactly what the population needed after the terrible events that had darkened the atmosphere all across Massachusetts. From April all the way to late June, the Bruins -and their fans- were, through it all, exemplary (and the fact that the Hawks acknowledged that by taking out a page in the media after their theft had been officialized -a mere ''thank you letter'' riddled with mistakes, if one believes the transcript of it published by usatoday, that is- does not mean a thing, really! All it made me think of was the time the Chicago Daily Tribune went to print with ''Dewey defeats Truman'' in 1948...! Another famous Chi-not-so-shy-Town BLUNDER - that's all it is! Ah, Sweet Home Chicago... not! Still, I'll take this rare opportunity to send off my regards to friendly fellow alliterative astute Candid Candace, despite all that...!)
Truly, the only thing that could have assuaged the open wounds that those Bruins fans who lost either an arm or a leg have got festering on their minds right now, was VICTORY.
No matter how fleeting a feeling it is...
But no - you had to be selfish, Black Hawks, you had to take it for yourselves, by all wretched-dirty tricks-and-means there could be...
And, in so doing, you, the 2013 Black Hawks are even worse than the 1919 Black Sox ever were.
They were the Chicago White Sox of their day - and they became the Black Sox.
In 2013, the Chicago Black Hawks could have become... the White Hawks.
As the Black Sox turned ''black'' by throwing the World Series, for money, the Black Hawks would have turned ''white'' (or, dare I say ''incandescent''... or ''radiant''... or even ''luminous''!?) by ''fixing'' the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals the right way: for the joy of the Boston Marathon Bombing victims. By allowing the Bruins to win, as they should have, by not scoring garbage goals in excessive numbers (two in the last minute of a game come to mind here) and by not stealing victory when it was clearly not merited, the Chicago Black Hawks would have erased that stigma that has been branding all things Chicagoan ever since the days of Giovanni ''Johnny'' Torrio, the inept mayor Wentworth, Al Capone & Murray Humphreys! The Black Hawks could have and should have bowed out of the 2013 Finals and handed over that ''cup'' to the better city, which so recently suffered unjust and outright savage senseless attacks that cost innocents dearly. What better way to pay homage to ''Boston Strong''...? And, in doing so, the Black Hawks would have, verily, become winged angels of sorts: ''White Hawks'' by any other name...
But they didn't - now, did they?
Once they got to the Big Dance once again, they could do only one thing: think of themselves and rob their nobler opponent of the victory by any means necessary. Garbage goals that could have easily not even counted were the deciding factors: it was, perhaps, acceptable back in 2010 against Philadelphia, the city of false brotherly love (and other fallacies) - perhaps.
However, this year, stealing victory from a cleaner city is simply not right, Chicago. Boston's fine population was literally torn into by those blasts back in April - they deserved this championship as rightful compensation! You are ready to dive in boxing rings, Chicagoans; you dive all the time in the ice rink, too, in order to prevent superior shots from penetrating into your net... You had to take a dive in games 6 and 7 (or, truly, games 5 and 6) and allow Boston to raise another title over their weary shoulders, a mere two months after the tragedy and terror (as the Boston Globe phrased it) lived through on the 15th of April of this year. Tragedy and terror that has left its mark forevermore indeed: some men and women, in the prime of their lives, having lost either an arm or a leg... Their brief moment of joy, when they could forget this sad new reality that is theirs for the rest of their lives, was when they were watching their team rise to the fore, raising hope in their heart of a better tomorrow, if only for game time or so... The Bruins (and all other Boston teams) needed to provide this all-important diversion for these unnecessary victims at that crucial team - and they came through brilliantly; prevailing against all odds in their first series, as they had dug themselves into quite the corner there... Outplaying rivals from the most evil town, bar none: New York (even Chicago doesn't come close; ChiTown's number 2 in this case - a shitty position to be in, usually, but, hey, for one thing, in this case, it makes sense. And secondly: it is where they deserve to be!) before sweeping over-rated foes that were both familiar and infuriating with their sheer arrogance: the Pitt. The Boston team came through it all with inspiring flamboyance - exactly what the population needed after the terrible events that had darkened the atmosphere all across Massachusetts. From April all the way to late June, the Bruins -and their fans- were, through it all, exemplary (and the fact that the Hawks acknowledged that by taking out a page in the media after their theft had been officialized -a mere ''thank you letter'' riddled with mistakes, if one believes the transcript of it published by usatoday, that is- does not mean a thing, really! All it made me think of was the time the Chicago Daily Tribune went to print with ''Dewey defeats Truman'' in 1948...! Another famous Chi-not-so-shy-Town BLUNDER - that's all it is! Ah, Sweet Home Chicago... not! Still, I'll take this rare opportunity to send off my regards to friendly fellow alliterative astute Candid Candace, despite all that...!)
Truly, the only thing that could have assuaged the open wounds that those Bruins fans who lost either an arm or a leg have got festering on their minds right now, was VICTORY.
No matter how fleeting a feeling it is...
But no - you had to be selfish, Black Hawks, you had to take it for yourselves, by all wretched-dirty tricks-and-means there could be...
And, in so doing, you, the 2013 Black Hawks are even worse than the 1919 Black Sox ever were.
Luminous Luciano Has Spoken... er, blogged!
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Sempre Por O Melhor
June 25, 2013
Dream Spoiled
Incredible - the Boston Bruins used to rough up the Chicago Blackschmucks by scores of 8 to 2 when Cam Neely and Steve Larmer led those respective teams throughout 84-game schedules...
And now that they finally meet in the Big Finale - this is how it ends?!?
Did you even see what kind of a garbage-rebound-goal it was that that Bolland guy tucked in past Tuukka in order to steal victory here...? I don't know what was more embarrassing about it, really: the jumping Blackschmucks afterwards or the little Chicagoan Grrl who couldn't stop shrieking for a while and had to be bear-hugged by one of them typical Chicago beer-guzzlers in attendance, somehow...
(And, NO; we don't mean Jim Belushi!)
This might be even more revolting than last year's grand larceny on ice, when the crummy Capitals stole victory from the then-defending champions Bruins.
It is all about perceptions, one has to guess: one could focus here that the team was only two more wins away from winning it all again - and that those last two games could have easily been it.
If the bitchy Lady Luck had played the puck for our side, that is!
Speaking of perceptions (no - I don't even wanna know what's the Days of Y'Orr take on this sordid turn of events - and I don't want Bobby Orr's take on it either!) - what about those inane posters on the wretched NHL.com comments section right after their so-called ''reports/articles/call'em-what-you-will'' thingies that they whip up after each and every game...
One moron simply commented: ''now you know how Toronto felt'' and spiced that up with some heartfelt hatred towards the real champions - the Boston Bruins!
Ha! Hardly - moron! This is nothing like what the Boston Bruins did to the lowly Maple Leafs n the first round! And not just because it was between the two top teams in the NHL, at the top of their game and in the Grand Finale of the all, either! You see, Boston did not capitalize on all of their chances to score in Game 6 against Chicago - otherwise the score could have been Boston 5, Chicago 1 in the last minute of play and that would have been it for the game: see you in Game 7! In the Game 7 of that first round series, the most absurd thing had occurred: not only did it oppose an inferior team to a vastly superior one, but the inferior one had been able to capitalize on each and every one of its chances to score, making it Toronto 4, Boston 1 in the third period. What the Bruins did was far more impressive than what the wretched Blackhawks could do here: scoring two lucky goals late to steal the game, giving the Bruins no time at all to retaliate. Previously, the Bruins had not been as fortunate as Toronto had been in that game 7 either: they had had several golden opportunities to put the game away and put it totally out of reach of the Blackschmucks; it really could have been Boston 5, Chicago 1 - and, it it had been, you can bet your sorry a$$ that nothing even close to what happened when it was Toronto 4, Boston 1 would have ever ever occurred there...! Boston scoring three unanswered goals to tie it late in the game and scoring the winner early in overtime against a team such as Toronto is normal; Chicago scoring only one to tie it (much less two to steal it) late in the game against a team such as Boston is totally abnormal. Was that finally made clear to you, MORON out there, wherever you are? I hope you are among those who discover this blog by sheer... manipulated happenstance!
;-)
Another moron perceived the boos coming from the Boston faithful as being aimed at Chicago's Shaw, when he got hit by a puck in the face and was bleeding profusely on the ice, prompting the referee to blow his damnable whistle and call the play dead just when Boston's Thornton (there is no longer a need to add ''Shawn, not that poor pathetic Joe The Shark Schmoe'' - is there!) inherited the puck and most probably had a play with the rest of the Merlot line 2.0 there...
Speaking of which, what the Bruins sorely missed in the Finals was having a gritty warrior the likes of Gregory Campbell indeed... But that is sour grapes now - right, Grapes?
Back to the BOOS AFFAIR: that moron went as far as commenting about this and adding ''stay classy, Boston'' - which could have been, if the commenter had any brain cells worth calling them that, ''stay smart, Beantowners without-much-of-a-clue - duh!'' for the only way anyone is going to boo a guy who is down and bleeding on the ice is if you are a clueless, witless, useless invertebrate that doesn't know jack squat about anything! How could that moron even be let on the NHL.com forums in order to spread such drivel - and how is he allowed to comment on those boards, via Facebook, no less! It boggles the mind: the NHL and FB, both, must be hiring vegetative webmasters and the most obtuse message board moderators that okay the most idiotic comments to pass through and stay online too while they dutifully erase and deny access to anyone whose way with words greatly surpasses theirs and goes waaaaaaaay over their tiny petty little pinheads! It is either that or they deny you based upon your witty e-mail addy or username - but I'd say it is that!
What happened then, you wonder? Two or three Boston fans bothered to correct the moron and let him know that the Boston fans inside the TD Garden were indeed booing the ref for whistling the play to stop when Boston could have scored - which would not have been the first time that they'd allow a goal to go in despite someone being down, y'know! They just could not do it for Boston I suppose...
What's that - you doubt the Bruins could have scored on that play?
You silly fools!
You really think that Crawford is that good? Crawford is no better than Reimer, Lundqvist and Vokoun who all went down before Boston! He could have and should have been decimated in the first period alone - the Bruins so dominated that period that, with any help at all from that bitch (Lady Luck, again) they could have come out of it with a three or five-goal lead instead of just one score!
Corey Crawford was cleanly and clearly beaten on two David Krejci plays that would normally have resulted in goals for the star forward in this crucial game 6.
It is oh-so-very uncharacteristic of Krejci to miss such golden opportunities for easy goals: one hit the crossbar and skipped ahead of the net but it is the second one that is the most disappointing one of all. Brad Marchand fed him a perfect pass and David Krejci was behind both the lone defenseman there and Crawford too: meaning that Krejci had a wide open net into which he normally redirects the puck and makes it 2-0 for Boston. Somehow, though, it didn't go in, this time. Rather, the puck went vertical, way over the net and into the stands even. The Ghost of Glen Wesley was in the house...
Despite the astonishing and undeserved loss, the Boston Bruins laid claim to two out of three stars when the game was all done - and they had been officially robbed of victory on that night. Truly small consolation indeed - but it is at least that and it is an undeniable bit of evidence that they should have won that game and forced a seventh and decisive Game 7 just like they did in 2011...
And with such evenly-matched teams playing with the same exact desire for victory, anything could have happened in Game 7 - and Boston could have done it again...
They'll do it again - in 2014. :-)
The THREE STARS OF THE GAME for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals were...
1. Milan LUCIC ( 1 goal, 2 shots, 1 hit, -1, Time On Ice: 19:20)
2. Duncan KEITH (0 goals, 1 assist, 2 shots, 1 hit, -1, Time On Ice: 28:51)
And now that they finally meet in the Big Finale - this is how it ends?!?
Did you even see what kind of a garbage-rebound-goal it was that that Bolland guy tucked in past Tuukka in order to steal victory here...? I don't know what was more embarrassing about it, really: the jumping Blackschmucks afterwards or the little Chicagoan Grrl who couldn't stop shrieking for a while and had to be bear-hugged by one of them typical Chicago beer-guzzlers in attendance, somehow...
(And, NO; we don't mean Jim Belushi!)
This might be even more revolting than last year's grand larceny on ice, when the crummy Capitals stole victory from the then-defending champions Bruins.
It is all about perceptions, one has to guess: one could focus here that the team was only two more wins away from winning it all again - and that those last two games could have easily been it.
If the bitchy Lady Luck had played the puck for our side, that is!
Speaking of perceptions (no - I don't even wanna know what's the Days of Y'Orr take on this sordid turn of events - and I don't want Bobby Orr's take on it either!) - what about those inane posters on the wretched NHL.com comments section right after their so-called ''reports/articles/call'em-what-you-will'' thingies that they whip up after each and every game...
One moron simply commented: ''now you know how Toronto felt'' and spiced that up with some heartfelt hatred towards the real champions - the Boston Bruins!
Ha! Hardly - moron! This is nothing like what the Boston Bruins did to the lowly Maple Leafs n the first round! And not just because it was between the two top teams in the NHL, at the top of their game and in the Grand Finale of the all, either! You see, Boston did not capitalize on all of their chances to score in Game 6 against Chicago - otherwise the score could have been Boston 5, Chicago 1 in the last minute of play and that would have been it for the game: see you in Game 7! In the Game 7 of that first round series, the most absurd thing had occurred: not only did it oppose an inferior team to a vastly superior one, but the inferior one had been able to capitalize on each and every one of its chances to score, making it Toronto 4, Boston 1 in the third period. What the Bruins did was far more impressive than what the wretched Blackhawks could do here: scoring two lucky goals late to steal the game, giving the Bruins no time at all to retaliate. Previously, the Bruins had not been as fortunate as Toronto had been in that game 7 either: they had had several golden opportunities to put the game away and put it totally out of reach of the Blackschmucks; it really could have been Boston 5, Chicago 1 - and, it it had been, you can bet your sorry a$$ that nothing even close to what happened when it was Toronto 4, Boston 1 would have ever ever occurred there...! Boston scoring three unanswered goals to tie it late in the game and scoring the winner early in overtime against a team such as Toronto is normal; Chicago scoring only one to tie it (much less two to steal it) late in the game against a team such as Boston is totally abnormal. Was that finally made clear to you, MORON out there, wherever you are? I hope you are among those who discover this blog by sheer... manipulated happenstance!
;-)
Another moron perceived the boos coming from the Boston faithful as being aimed at Chicago's Shaw, when he got hit by a puck in the face and was bleeding profusely on the ice, prompting the referee to blow his damnable whistle and call the play dead just when Boston's Thornton (there is no longer a need to add ''Shawn, not that poor pathetic Joe The Shark Schmoe'' - is there!) inherited the puck and most probably had a play with the rest of the Merlot line 2.0 there...
Speaking of which, what the Bruins sorely missed in the Finals was having a gritty warrior the likes of Gregory Campbell indeed... But that is sour grapes now - right, Grapes?
Back to the BOOS AFFAIR: that moron went as far as commenting about this and adding ''stay classy, Boston'' - which could have been, if the commenter had any brain cells worth calling them that, ''stay smart, Beantowners without-much-of-a-clue - duh!'' for the only way anyone is going to boo a guy who is down and bleeding on the ice is if you are a clueless, witless, useless invertebrate that doesn't know jack squat about anything! How could that moron even be let on the NHL.com forums in order to spread such drivel - and how is he allowed to comment on those boards, via Facebook, no less! It boggles the mind: the NHL and FB, both, must be hiring vegetative webmasters and the most obtuse message board moderators that okay the most idiotic comments to pass through and stay online too while they dutifully erase and deny access to anyone whose way with words greatly surpasses theirs and goes waaaaaaaay over their tiny petty little pinheads! It is either that or they deny you based upon your witty e-mail addy or username - but I'd say it is that!
What happened then, you wonder? Two or three Boston fans bothered to correct the moron and let him know that the Boston fans inside the TD Garden were indeed booing the ref for whistling the play to stop when Boston could have scored - which would not have been the first time that they'd allow a goal to go in despite someone being down, y'know! They just could not do it for Boston I suppose...
What's that - you doubt the Bruins could have scored on that play?
You silly fools!
You really think that Crawford is that good? Crawford is no better than Reimer, Lundqvist and Vokoun who all went down before Boston! He could have and should have been decimated in the first period alone - the Bruins so dominated that period that, with any help at all from that bitch (Lady Luck, again) they could have come out of it with a three or five-goal lead instead of just one score!
Corey Crawford was cleanly and clearly beaten on two David Krejci plays that would normally have resulted in goals for the star forward in this crucial game 6.
It is oh-so-very uncharacteristic of Krejci to miss such golden opportunities for easy goals: one hit the crossbar and skipped ahead of the net but it is the second one that is the most disappointing one of all. Brad Marchand fed him a perfect pass and David Krejci was behind both the lone defenseman there and Crawford too: meaning that Krejci had a wide open net into which he normally redirects the puck and makes it 2-0 for Boston. Somehow, though, it didn't go in, this time. Rather, the puck went vertical, way over the net and into the stands even. The Ghost of Glen Wesley was in the house...
Despite the astonishing and undeserved loss, the Boston Bruins laid claim to two out of three stars when the game was all done - and they had been officially robbed of victory on that night. Truly small consolation indeed - but it is at least that and it is an undeniable bit of evidence that they should have won that game and forced a seventh and decisive Game 7 just like they did in 2011...
And with such evenly-matched teams playing with the same exact desire for victory, anything could have happened in Game 7 - and Boston could have done it again...
They'll do it again - in 2014. :-)
The THREE STARS OF THE GAME for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals were...
1. Milan LUCIC ( 1 goal, 2 shots, 1 hit, -1, Time On Ice: 19:20)2. Duncan KEITH (0 goals, 1 assist, 2 shots, 1 hit, -1, Time On Ice: 28:51)
All photos trademark and copyright of the NHLJune 20, 2013
Dreams Have No Rhyme Nor Reason...
However...
It is true that Chicago rhymes with zero while Boston rhymes with... well, with both reason *and* champion!
It is true that, while the Blackhawks perpetuate the stereotype only rendered more ridiculed by the NFL's Washington Redskins and MLB's Cleveland Indians - the Boston Bruins continue to integrate all races equally into their extended family: from Milt Schmidt to Stan Jonathan to Milan Lucic today!
It is also true that while Chicago once spawned a movie whose original title included the words ''sexual perversions'' (Jim Belushi knows that one well; it was retitled - but it starred him and Rob Lowe, so...) Boston inspired nothing but good things since time immemorial - from Good Morning Beantown to the unforgettable Cheers of course - not to mention that certain film about good will and hunting...?
The Boston Red Sox shook off their curse - the Cubs did not.
The Patriots flourished since meeting the Bears in that Super Bowl there, winning three Super Bowls: the Bears never won it again.
The Boston Celtics' dynasty has no equal - the Chicago Bulls were mere pale imitators (despite being, shall we say, more tanned than most Celtic players - with the notable exception of Bill Russell?)
The Boston Pops have world-renown; does Chicago even have an orchestra...?
For all these reasons - and a myriad more - everyone can easily concur that BOSTON is the ONE TRUE CHAMPION... All categories, bar none!
It is true that Chicago rhymes with zero while Boston rhymes with... well, with both reason *and* champion!
It is true that, while the Blackhawks perpetuate the stereotype only rendered more ridiculed by the NFL's Washington Redskins and MLB's Cleveland Indians - the Boston Bruins continue to integrate all races equally into their extended family: from Milt Schmidt to Stan Jonathan to Milan Lucic today!
It is also true that while Chicago once spawned a movie whose original title included the words ''sexual perversions'' (Jim Belushi knows that one well; it was retitled - but it starred him and Rob Lowe, so...) Boston inspired nothing but good things since time immemorial - from Good Morning Beantown to the unforgettable Cheers of course - not to mention that certain film about good will and hunting...?
The Boston Red Sox shook off their curse - the Cubs did not.
The Patriots flourished since meeting the Bears in that Super Bowl there, winning three Super Bowls: the Bears never won it again.
The Boston Celtics' dynasty has no equal - the Chicago Bulls were mere pale imitators (despite being, shall we say, more tanned than most Celtic players - with the notable exception of Bill Russell?)
The Boston Pops have world-renown; does Chicago even have an orchestra...?
For all these reasons - and a myriad more - everyone can easily concur that BOSTON is the ONE TRUE CHAMPION... All categories, bar none!
June 19, 2013
Dream On: Boston VS Chicago
All right, CHI-TOWN...
You want a war?
YOU WANT A WAR?
We're gonna give you a WAR!
BEANTOWN versus CHI-TOWN!
Bruins, Celtics and Patriots
versus
Bulls, Blackhawks and Bears!
And our musical acts will get involved, too...
Nope - Peter Cetera's no match for Tom Scholz!
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