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The Difference Between Hockey and All Other Sports

Have you seen that commercial where a hockey player goes to the trainer and says he has a splinter.  The trainer reaches for a pair of tweezers and then looks up and sees the player has a hockey stick stabbed clean through his arm.  The player says something like hurry up, I’ve got to get back on the ice?  Have you seen that?

Watch this:

The injured player, Gregory Campbell, is out for the rest of the season. I believe I heard that he broke his leg while blocking the shot. His team was on a penalty kill in a playoff game. What did Campbell with his broken leg do? He got up and played his position, covered his man, broke up a pass, continued to kill off a penalty against the best offense in the NHL.

Holy Crap!

Now compare that to most other pro sports where hang nails keep players out for days, or a nasty case of turf toe (rug burn?) can derail a season, or where players flop around like they’ve been shot at the slightest contact (ok, looking at you Montreal Canadians as well as every soccer player and basketball player I’ve watched over the last few years).

Greg Campbell… on a broken leg… Damn!

Double Overtime Hangover

I gotta tell ya… I have the worse case of the double overtime hangover.  I feel like I haven’t slept for days.

But what a game, eh?

You can watch the highlights here.

I was in the car when Krejci scored the first goal.  I saw the Penguins goal on TV.  There was still more than half a game to go at that point.  Before the third period ended I was listening to the radio.  I’d had enough of Pierre McGuire, and everyone in the house was asleep so I kept it quiet.  It seemed like four months went by waiting for one more goal.  The Penguins owned the third period.  The Bruins owned most of the overtime.  This was not a push over win like game two, this was playoff hockey at it’s most stressful.  Each time the puck came into our end I was panicked.  Each time it was in their end I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see who would be the hero.

The Penguins brought it for real last night.  The Bruins were not up to their level of play they showed in the first two games.  Still, the heavily favored Penguins could not find a way to beat the Bruins, and now Boston is up three games to none.  Game four is Friday.  Again, I ask, please please please please please put them away on Friday.  Memories of 2010 are still fresh.  You lost game four to the Rangers after winning the first three and there was pain and suffering in Bruins Nation.  Spare us more of that pain with a win on Friday.

Go Bruins!

Overtime

The Bruins scored in the first period.
The Penguins scored in the second period.
No one scored I the third period.

Off to overtime we go!

Did I mention that I HATE overtime?

The Penguins have been 1000 times better tonight, but Tuukka Rask has been HUGE in net for Boston.

Next goal wins.

Go Bruins!

Bruins vs Penguins Game Three Tonight

Last night the LA Kings beat the Chicago Blackhawks to close the gap in the Western Conference Finals.  The ‘Hawks now lead two games to one.

Let’s hope that doesn’t happen in the East, right?

Game three between the heroic Boston Bruins and the loathsome Pittsburgh Penguins (yes, I am a homer.  Wanna make something of it?) is tonight at 8:00pm.  The Bruins hold a two games to none lead after shocking the crap out of the hockey pundits by winning the first two games of the series on the road.  The big question around these here parts was who would play goal for the Pens.  Apparently, Tomas Vokoun has said publicly that he’ll be playing tonight.  Is that true?  Is it a clever ruse?  Who knows.  The real question is, does it matter?  Will the Bruins that gutted out a game one win and then slaughtered the more talented Penguins going to keep their foot on the gas and take game three at home?

Let’s hope so!

Go Bruins!

The Time Will Come ’13

Oh good, thinks everyone reading this, another crappy song from the 80’s.

You guessed it!

The Time Will Come as written by Tempest Fero (aka me and my band back in high school).

I don’t remember much about how this came about. I know the lyrics and the melody came from Jeff the Drummer but that’s about all I remember. Hell, I couldn’t even remember the title until I found a cassette tape labeled Tempest Fero.

I have one more T.F. song planned. There are still two more that I will add to the mess if I can just find a tape. One of them is our 10 minute marathon song.

Wish me luck.

Random Flickr Pic Post

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Just continuing to feed the Flickr.

I have been going to the People You May Know page off of the Flickr homepage and just clicking on suggested users (there, I just clicked on eight of them) and following them.  It’s made the contact feed on my homepage pretty fantastic.  Why, though, does Flickr assume I have a huge interest in pictures of abandoned buildings.  Not just houses, but factories and warehouses and everything.  Good stuff though, just a little hyper focused is all.

I’ve also been messing with new sets.  Sort of setting up single sets from different locations that we’ve gone to multiple times.  Sort of like collections, but only they will show up on my sets page… because they’re sets.  I did this once before but never kept things up to date.

I have updated my Methuen and Boston sets, and made new sets for the White Mountains, New York City, and San Diego.  I’m also thinking of making sets for Florida, the oceans (plural), maybe the Merrimack Valley so I can stick all of the Methuen, Tewksbury, Lowell, and what not together.  We’ll see.

Keep feeding the Flickr.

Game Two Glory for the Boston Bruins

How on Earth did this happen?  Says Bruins nation gleefully.
How on Earth did this happen?  Says Penguin nation miserably.  Is there a Penguin nation?

The Bruins took game two of the Eastern Conference Finals last night in a score that looks very much like what most people thought a Penguins victory would look like.  6-1.  That’s Six goals for the defense first Bruins to One goal for the offensive juggernaut Penguins.  But… How?… What?… Who?…

The Bruins have a two games to none lead in the series.  They are two wins away from going back to the Stanley Cup Finals!  (They are also four measly losses away from going home for the summer.  I’m not going to be the overly optimistic guy who jinxes things for Bruins fans everywhere.  Nope, not me.  Nothing but cautious optimism from this guy)  Brad Marchand scored 28 seconds into the game and it was all downhill from there for Pittsburgh.  They pulled Vokoun after three goals and then saw Fleury give up three more.  There was exactly one downside to this game from a Boston standpoint.  That chump Tuukka Rask let in a goal.  Useless!  Trade his ass!  (that is sarcasm.  One goal in two games against this Penguins lineup?  I’d be more apt to put him in the hall of fame than trade him)

But… but… but… the Penguins were supposed to destroy us.  It was supposed to be ugly for Bruins fans.  Instead it’s been nothing but glory and tales to tell the grandchildren.

In other words, it’s been wicked fun!

Now we come home for games three and four.

Go Bruins!  Keep it up!  Beat the Penguins!  Do it quick because our collective stomachs can’t handle a swing in momentum!

GO BRUINS!