Last Splash

Tuesday, 25 April 2006

You know how when you watch a hockey game on OLN most of the camera coverage is at center ice, and that's also where the commentators sit, up at the top of the upper level? Well, we have games 2 and 7 of every playoff round (although after the start to our playoffs we may have Game 2 of round 1 and not much else) and our seats are about 15 rows down from there. The first row of the upper level, center ice, facing the players bench. Bliss...bliss, I tell you. No more end zone hockey for me. These are, as far as I'm concerned, the best seats in the house. Next year I will cut back to 5 hockey games per season just so that I can pay the $24 dollars to sit there instead of the $12 to sit behind our goal in the upper level and go to 10 games. Well, maybe I'll go to more. Oh, listen to me...already looking to next season. What a sad, sad girl. I wish I could explain the first game, but I can't. I think we laid back too much in the weeks since we clinched playoffs, because the intensity was non-existent. And then last night, poor Gerber...I don't know what's up with him, but once we put Ward in we caught them. And our defenseive players got their heads out of their asses and realized that it wasn't all the goalie's fault since they weren't bothering to protect the lanes. Amazing come-from-behing game. It was so exciting to go to a double-OT game. And other than the 1st period, the Canes played really well. But Montreal is more aggressive and physical than they've been all season, and we've got some old guys that just can't take longer shifts against them without getting knocked around and injured. So, 3 players had retired to the locker room over the course of the game and we just couldn't keep up with them in that 2cd OT. Let's hope for the away sweep, and that's all we can really do. Hell, we were uphill against the same team in '02 and took them, so you never know what could happen. And if we lose? I guess I'm pulling for Buffalo or Ottawa, because they really deserve it.