Well, congratulations to the amazing death defying Pittsburgh Penguins, you somehow beat the Borg. I clearly remember attending Frozen Fury III (Kings vs Avs) as part of a Lagloire Vegas Hockey field trip and asking my pick-up hockey cohorts, "Who is that really slow guy falling over everybody? Why is he even out there?" Steve the goalie sardonically quipped, "That's our new checking forward, Dan Bylsma, emphasis on BILE!" Dan actually scored a goal later in that game and the rest, as they say, is history.
The postal predictions once again rang true. Pens had the Cup in their pockets once Detroit's Niklas Kronwall hit the crossbar with only 2:14 left in a one goal 7th game.
And so with last night's unbelievable victory by mid-season replacement coach Dan Bylsma's Penguins, 3 more ex-Kings get their names on the cup; Dan, Phillippe Boucher and Mathew Garon. Plus congrats to ex-Ducks Chris Kunitz, Petr Sykora and oh yeah, Dan Bylsma.
as a lover of most sports-- um... Nascar - not so much... but for the Penguins to pull off a win in game 7 on AWAY ice was about as big a long shot as for Mine That Bird to win the Kentucky Derby-- or also long odds for Roger Federer to win this years French Open. A year of amazing sports stories for sure. Now I am waiting for some mini-tour guy to go toe to toe with that Woods character in this Sunday's US OPEN and clobber the guy with birdies and eagles on the final nine.
ReplyDeleteAs I watched Sunday and as I was pulling for Pittsburg (while still 2-0) I allowed myself to think "if the Redwings score now in the 3rd, it will be really exciting". Once that happened it brought to mind that old phrase-- be careful what you wish for!