Says the person whose team employs a cannibal.
Posted on 06/15/2011 8:19:29 PM PDT by max americana
In what possible way were the Bruins the "inferior" team?
The Bruins, an "offensively" challenged team, scored 23 combined goals to Vancouver's combined 8.
Sour grapes.
The inferior team got lucky. It happens from time to time - esp. if their opponent wears blue and green.
Read the stats. Boston got lucky this time and benefited from injuries. Give Horton back to Boston and give Hamhuis, Rome, Raymond, etc. back to Vancouver... No, I’m sorry: Vancouver is the better team. Boston beat half a Canucks team. I guess, in the sense of injuring the other teams’ players to bring them down to your own skill level - in that sense, Boston was the better team...
Hooray for the Boston Bruins. It was a long, long wait. I hope I don’t have to wait that long for another one.
Injuries are part of the game, they all skate on the same ice. Depth is a metric of the quality of a team, and it appears depth was a weakness of the Vancouver team.
If depth was not the weakness,then durability of the Canucks surely was.
I don’t want to be contentious, but you are going to have to man up and face the reality.
And by the way, I was serious when I said I did not want to be contentious. I didn’t see the way that last post came across until I read it after posting about “man up”, so I’ll retract that.
I’ve been there, and I know how rotten it feels to be on the other side of things.
I think I'm through following all professional sports. It's a diversion for small minds, a waste of time, a cause of meaningless chest thumping that does not advance the cause of art, science, or anything else of importance.
Psst . . . in NHL playoff hockey, stats are meaningless. The only reality is what happens on the ice, and on the ice, the reincarnation of the Big Bad Bruins buried your sissified, dandified, unsportsman-like (Malhotra excepted), entitled, petulant, heroically-underperforming "Nucks."
Come on. It is the day after. You have to enjoy sports for what it is.
I began following NFL football back in 1971 when I lived in Maryland, and became a rabid Redskins fan. Completely eaten up with it, and not in a healthy way. When I was in the USN, I would pace for hours outside the communications shack on the ship, waiting for the Sunday scores. I would go up and down the dial on the radio at sea, looking for some snippet of anything that mentioned the NFL.
I finally stopped watching completely, because it wasn’t healthy, and I could see it. I began watching again about 16 years ago, and it is fine. I accept it for what it is, a game.
It is just a game, as you implied. But that doesn’t mean you cannot have fun with it and enjoy it. I am a New England Patriots fan...because I live up here. If any fan base had an excuse to jump enmasse off of a bridge, it was Patriot’s Nation on February 4, 2008.
But you know what? The better team won that night. The NY Giants didn’t have the flashy statistics. They didn’t have the touted personnel. They didn’t have the immediate history. But on that night, the NY Giants, the underdog, the 14 point underdog, had the desire and the will to win.
And I have no problem with facing that. It didn’t make the 2007 season, one in which I had season tickets, any less fun to go through. It was a blast. And when the Patriots lost, sure. I was pretty hammered that night. But I got up the next morning, put on my shoes and went back to life until the NFL preseason began a few months later. And I enjoyed the next season.
It is a game, you have to enjoy it.
And you shouldn’t have a problem with Vancouver losing to what is perceived as a less capable team, either.
It is a game. And in sports, the most talented team does not always win.
Says the person whose team employs a cannibal.
And they won that Cup on an illegal stick call against the Kings.
To experience a championship, you must live in places like New Yolk, Bwahston, Tayxas, Floriduh, Than Franthithco. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, forget it.
I really thought we would experience a championship for the first time this time.
I'm through with all sports.
What do Tree Rollins, Mike Tyson and Alex Burrows have in common?
Apparently, a taste for long pig...
You were saying?
To experience a championship, you must live in places like New Yolk, Bwahston, Tayxas, Floriduh, Than Franthithco. If you live in the Pacific Northwest, forget it.
Come on. This is the day after the game. Wait a few weeks.
I moved up here in 1973, and it took until 2001 for the Patriots, 2004 for the Red Sox, and 2011 for the Bruins.
And we are rich beyond belief in this respect. Not all appreciate it, it is true. It is a great sports environment, but boy, living around these Red Sox die-hard fans was nearly unendurable until they finally won in 2004. I guess the Chicago Cubs have it worse, but...you get the idea.
I have a buddy, who was a lifelong Bruins fan. He was someone I played hockey with for years, we went to the games, the whole nine yards.
He stopped following the Bruins and hockey several years back. He had enough. He couldn’t stand the disappointment. He was (and is) angry and bitter, towards the Bruins, the management, the pussification of the league, all of it.
He refused to come and watch any of the playoff games. Last night at midnight I called him, and he had watched the game (As I surely knew he would) but he could not be happy. He groused about the Bruins players who would never get a championship, about how they screwed Ray Bourque, how the Jacobs family is just milking the team for profit and so on.
It bummed me out. All those years we watched together with no championship, and he couldn’t bring himself to enjoy it and smile because of it.
Don’t do it. You can enjoy sports without defining your happiness by it. I am living proof of both ends of that spectrum.
Thanks for trying to put a positive spin on matters, and congrats to your Bruins.
This series reminded me very much of the playoff series between the Canadians and Bruins in 1971 when the Bruins went into the playoffs with by far the best record in the league with a ton of goal-scorers and Kenny Dryden just stonewalled them. Timmy Thomas is the closest I’ve seen to that performance.
RE: He, Bettam is dispised in the Greater Hartford, CT area also. Ask Howard Baldwin.
Whalers fan to the core. You got that right.
The process has begun again in Hartford, with the CT Whale. It was the very first 2 week “Hockey Festival” back in February that my interest in hockey again got started.
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