It is real difficult to do a daily column when you have no computer.\u00a0 I honestly never realized how much I depended on it.<\/p>\n
So in the immortal words of the fertility drug-enriched Manny Ramirez, “I’m back”.<\/p>\n
Just in case you haven’t noticed the Washington – Pittsburgh Stanley Cup playoff series is turning into a classic.<\/p>\n
This is the type of series the NHL needed to become somewhat relevant again.\u00a0 Sidney Crosby vs Alex Ovechkin.\u00a0 What more can a hockey fan want?<\/p>\n
The third game of the series saw both stars get a hat-trick for their teams.\u00a0 Thats what the league needed.<\/p>\n
Speaking of playoff series, the Detroit Redwings weren’t really thinking they were going to sweep or take down playoff tested Anaheim did they?<\/p>\n
The Ducks are two years removed from their Stanley Cup Championship run and now face last season’s Champ.<\/p>\n
After a three-overtime game two, the Ducks took a 2-1 lead into Thursday’s game only to get smoked 6-3 by the Motor City visitors.\u00a0 It is crucial for Anaheim to win and head to Detroit up 3-2 in the series.<\/p>\n
Changing gears quickly.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Lakers needed to become a physical team against the Houston Rockets to survive the series.<\/p>\n
It only makes sense that Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant were the ones that became the physical presence the Lakers so desperately need.\u00a0 Of course, D-Fish looked like a linebacker when he leveled Luis Scola.<\/p>\n
After further review, Scola really needed to get a two-minute penalty for embellishment.\u00a0 Fisher should go and get tested after getting that tooth impression.<\/p>\n
Enjoy your day.\u00a0 It’s filled with sports, what else can you ask for?<\/p>\n
On the Couch can be seen here Saturday – Thursday.<\/p>\n
Andy’s Rants can be seen at www.midvalleysports.com on Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,80,83],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crosby","tag-manny-ramirez","tag-ovechkin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}