…I care about overtime playoff hockey between Detroit and Pittsburgh the most.<\/p>\n
Six minutes into the third overtime and I’ve seen a great game. By all accounts, I missed a great game, too. I didn’t even turn this one on until I saw it was headed to OT. Because as awesome as watching teams claim the Stanley Cup is, I just can’t get up for it when it could be the Red Wings (or, in fairness this year, the Penguins).<\/p>\n
But alas, here I am. I’ve already got one blog post in the books<\/a>, but that was an official, perfectish grammar, the boss is watching post. Since they’re still going to play, I figured I have no choice but to write a rambling, …-filled, sometimes foul-mouthed, “hey, I just got another beer” type post. So… (Read the aforelinked post for most of my thoughts on the awesomeness of playoff hockey, if you needed reasons.)<\/p>\n For all the griping “Lucky” Pierre Maguire has done with his fellow NBC cronies about the “fullback up the middle” goalie interference calls in the first OT, I don’t see how they can get all up in arms about two “obstruction\/interference” calls they think were missed. Setting screens can slide in overtime, I’m not so sure trucking the goalie can.<\/p>\n Ball game. Peter Sykora, who I have referenced before in this blog, gets the game-winner as I was about to post about how if Pittsburgh doesn’t score on a four-minute powerplay they should just strap on the white gloves and start polishing the Cup for the Wings. And really, Pierre (et al), yeah, it’s nice that a guy tells his teammates he’s going to score and then comes through, but it’s hardly miraculous, amazing, unbelievable or whatever if he does it 45 minutes later.<\/p>\n More thoughts that I feel the need to share, while I’m here…<\/p>\n I thought that maybe I jinxed things, but since I don’t care about either team, the only thing I jinxed was OT until noon tomorrow. <\/p>\n The playoff beard is a long-awesome tradition. Sidney Crosby’s “Playoff teenage gay French porn stache” is not.<\/p>\n The news is about to go on live. Almost two hours late. This cracks me the hell up and has me pulling for SIX overtimes in Game 6 later this week. The karma of bitching about hockey has bitten numerous television news producers in the Eastern time zone in the ass. <\/p>\n On a non-hockey note, I’m extremely pissed at myself for – after a million and one viewings – it took me four days following the death of Harvey Korman to make a comment about how he was found dead next to an impression of Douglas Fairbanks’ feet.<\/p>\n Ah well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …I care about overtime playoff hockey between Detroit and Pittsburgh the most. Six minutes into the third overtime and I’ve seen a great game. By all accounts, I missed a great game, too. I didn’t even turn this one on until I saw it was headed to OT. Because as awesome as watching teams claim … Continue reading Of all the things I don’t care about…<\/span>
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