Josh Ouellette
By Josh Ouellette
Puck has been exciting so far. The Kings took down the Sharks in game one winning 2-0 in L.A. Not a surprise considering the home winning streak they are on. Talk to me when they head back up the I-5 and play in the feeding bowl that is the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Losing Raffi Torres—yes he plays hockey and isn’t a tennis player—for the rest of the series from his illegal hit on Jarrett Stoll in the opener hurts the team a little, but the Sharks still have some bite.
Oh wait the Kings just flipped the switch in the third period of game two. Dustin Brown scored the equalizer with under two minutes to play and Trevor Lewis scored 22-seconds later thanks to a Marc-Edouard Vlasic penalty and ensuing power play. Vlasic scored the go ahead goal earlier in the period. Now that’s what I call irony. Kings lead the series two games to nil.
I really thought the Red Wings had it in their own opener in Chicago with the Blackhawks. That is until they only put up 21 shot attempts on Corey Crawford in between the posts. Jimmy Howard for Detroit had 41 shots put on him and at the end of the game looked like Swiss cheese. Defense wins championships is the adage right?
I think on Tuesday night’s show I told Papa Joe that the key to the Penguins beating Ottawa would lie in how well Tomas Vokoun did against a team other than the Islanders. Well he shut down the Senators stopping 35 out of 36 shots on goal. Clearly, as Jonathan Quick taught us in last year in the Stanley Cup Playoffs; a hot goalie can win the silverware. Pascal Dupuis scoring his 6th goal in the playoffs, a shorthanded one at that, doesn’t hurt either.
Boston and New York squared off last night and it all got real exciting going into the third period when Ryan McDonagh equalized with only two seconds left in the second. The Boston Garden went silent; which has to be a chilling feeling from a fan base that is so passionate. They were happy in the end with a 3-2 victory thought.
More importantly, if you would like to donate to help support the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing, go to www.onefundboston.org to give whatever you can to help get those afflicted back on their feet.
Fun Fact: There are two 7th seeded teams, the Red Wings and the Senators, in the Conference Semi-Finals this year for the first since the 2001 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Kings were 7th in the West and the Toronto Maple Leafs were the same seed in the East. Neither team advanced that year but both took the series to game seven’s.
Retiring: David Beckham. The man wasn’t the best or most talented footballer—yes I said footballer and not soccer player, deal with it—of his generation. But he did do something better than anyone else in his era; he branded himself almost too well. Granted marrying Posh Spice was a good move on all accounts, it did put him in an elite level of super stardom. Mix that with the tattoos and the phrase “bend it like Beckham” because of his ability to bend corners and free kicks into the box and the net, the movie starring Keira Knightly, Parminder Nagra and Jonathan Rhys Meyers did help to advance the phrase a little too.
Though Man U is the team for the devil. Come on you Irons! Which leads me to my point, I think Beckham will pull an MJ and come back at least a few times before the end. There are host of teams in London and other various capitals, much like my beloved West Ham United who would shell out the cash to get his name on the back of their jerseys. I don’t think we’ve seen the end of David Beckham on the pitch.
In the words of Ron Burgandy.
“Hey America, did you miss my hot breath in your ear?”
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