I haven’t been watching a lot of hockey lately. Am I bad?
I am, I guess. A lousy hockey fan.
When the Canadiens are gone, the enthusiasm for spending two and a half hours in front of the boob tube takes a major hit. Other teams don’t interest me a great deal. I hated them all during the regular season, and I’m not all that fussy about liking any of them now.
Don Cherry would probably say I’m a poor hockey fan. Don also says fans should cheer for the team nearest where they live.
I lived in Toronto once. And he expects……?
I did watch game five of the Bruins-Rangers series on Saturday night, when the Bruins eliminated New York four games to one. I would’ve liked to have seen Boston get walloped and the fans sent home sad, but now they’re happy in Beantown, and this makes me sad.
And prior to the game, TSN showed Tuukka Rask’s goal miscue from game four about twenty times. It was quite a moment. Rask has been involved in a couple of priceless video moments, including a temper tantrum after a Habs loss (below).
Wouldn’t it be funny if the overhead clock fell fifteen feet in front of Brad Marchand and it still clipped his nose?
I don’t really care about these enemy teams. I just kept thinking, while watching the Bruins, that they remind me of throwing up after eating too many orange and black jelly beans.
I also saw that Rangers’ coach John Tortorella has a decent tan, and I don’t know whether you caught it or not, but Boston’s Zdeno Chara is fairly tall. Did you notice that?
It’ll now be Pittsburgh against the Bruins in the eastern final. Go Pittsburgh, I suppose.
All I really want from here on in is to see a record-breaking overtime game. One that goes about seven or eight overtime periods. Then I’ll be interested.
Here’s Rask/Habs moment, when he wiped out after losing 6-5 in a shootout on March 27.
And here’s the goal TSN kept showing.