...

 

FOR THE FIRST THREE GAMES, 

THE OLD SEA DOG OF A SAILOR MAN 

WAS NO MATCH FOR THE BEAR - really... 

... just like we did against the CRAPITALS: 

we did win - 2 out of 3!  

But then, starting with game 4, that question 

"who's there" - aimed at the Bruins, of course - 

began to bear (no pun intended - really, NO) 

a somber connotation... As the club was clearly not 

the same that it had been during the first 8 games 

it played in these playoffs at that point... 

(Eight games and six of them were victories!) 

ALAS... Games 4 and 5 were clearly 

undermined by BAD REFEREEING. 

NHL so-called "officials" were crappy 

penalizing the Bruins for retaliating 

but not punishing the Islanders for instigating! 

This... was how the Islanders scored most of their goals. 

ALAS... there were others factors as well. 

The second line of Krejci, Hall and Smith 

were not producing as much as they had 

in the first round... 

AND... Tuukka Rask. 

He kept starting and playing 

in spite of an injury...?!? 

MY GOD... 

They had the perfect solution 

to prevail against both the 

damnable (not seafaring at all) Islanders 

AND the biased referees... 

And it was to... 

SWAYMAN had defeated the Islanders TWICE  

at the end of the regular campaign - 

giving the Bruins confidence that the early season 

difficulties encountered against them 

were only a damn FLUKE... 

And the Bruins could BEAT them INDEED. 

They certainly entered the series 

and started that series that way; 

with the decisive victory 

that should have set the tone for the whole thing... 

But that was without factoring in 

league interference, via their corrupt zebras... 

AND a torn ligament to their goaltender - 

the one they are keen on using the most 

because he is signed to the contract he is signed to...! 

Thus, in the end, Swayman didn't start a single game 

- he could have come in and saved the day for Boston - 

but he did not play anything more than a period 

in a game that was already practically out of reach... 

We needed two wins - he had had two, against them - 

but,in the end, we did not even give one shot... 

And Captain Highliner stole the series. 

WITH TWO EMPTY-NET GOALS!!! 

NIGHT (game 6...) 

and DAY (game 1... duh) 

Feeling sad... for Brad.