Good Afternoon....
Boston Bruins, Stanley Cup Champs....In a dominant performance that left no doubt as to who was the best team Boston picks it up a notch to knock off the heavily favored Vancouver Canucks....It started with Nathan Horton dousing the Vancouver ice with water from the ice at Boston Garden....Very funny to watch Horton who looked around to see if anyone was watching at 3:17 yesterday afternoon while the TV cameras caught every move....The Bruins set the tone, dictated the tone and it ended with Tim Thomas tapping the goal posts as the puck was slid to him....Reminder of 1972 as Bobby Orr slid the puck to and jumped into the arms of Gerry Cheevers as time ran out....A treat to watch Zdeno Chara hoist the Cup unable to hide his emotions....He thrust the Cup to the heavens several times, his face breaking into total glee....Right then it hit home to all Boston fans....After 39 years, our Bruins had won the Stanley Cup....Sweet....Brad Marchand may be a rookie and a pest to the other team but his fire and determination, never mind his 11 playoff goals, lit the spark as it seemed the B's won every battle....Chara might be the Captain but Shawn Thornton's return to the lineup in Game 3 and leadership let Vancouver know they were in for a fight....Timmy Terrific was simply magical....Milan Lucic lifts the Cup in his hometown of Vancouver and they love him....Patrice Bergeron....What can you say?....Faceoffs, defense and 2 goals in the deciding game....With Horton out of the series Bergeron picks the team up and was everywhere....Cam Neely, the face of the Boston Bruins, raises the Stanley Cup which he never got to do as a player....The Bruins faced adversity all through the Stanley Cup playoffs....Lost the first two games at home to the Montreal Canadiens but came back to win Game 7 in overtime on a goal by Horton....Revenge last year's horrific collapse to Philadelphia by sweeping the Flyers in four straight....Win a back and forth tough series with the Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 7, 1-0, on a goal by Horton....Top it off with a Game 7 win in the Finals on the road....Rolling Duck Boat parade through the cobblestone streets of Boston on Saturday....Should be something....Boston - City of Champions.
"Hockey is a man's game. The team with the most real men win." - Brian Burke
In 1999, then Vancouver GM Brian Burke held the #4 pick in the NHL Entry Draft....Through intimidation and diplomacy he turned that pick into the Sedin twins....Everyone has been patting him on the back since.
Stanley Cup Final Stats:
Daniel Sedin - 1 goal, 3 assists
Henrik Sedin - 1 goal, 0 assists
Josh Beckett throws a complete game shutout, matching James Shields from the night before setting up a Buchholz-Price matchup for the rubber game of the Rays-Red Sox three game series....Mark Teixeira and Michael Morse both smack a couple of Big Fly's last night....I think Ryan Zimmerman is gonna like hitting in front of Morse....Count me as one who likes inter-league play....And there is lots of it coming.
The US Open golf championship is one of my favorite tournaments to watch....Its not target golf....Players must keep their drives in the fairway and put their approach shots to the correct area on the green....You don't want to be in the rough....Par is a winning score and the tourney ends on Father's Day.
"US Open golf is 72 holes of bad breaks with an occasional surprise." - Jack Nicklaus
....talk to ya..................
I LIKE THAT PICTURE OF YOU , THE RESEMBLENCE IS STRIKING
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