Newsflash: Hockey is Exciting

The Bruins/Penguins game on Friday night was intense - as exciting as a 1-0 game you'll ever see. The most amazing part of it was the scrum that occurred during the last two minutes of the game. It had it all - Rask making some saves despite losing his stick, a miss on an open net, whiffed shots... but the highlight for me is at 56 seconds remaining when Chara blocks a shot with his HAND and still makes plays afterwards.

There's literally nothing more exciting than playoff hockey. And it continues on Wednesday with Boston vs. Chicago. Go Bruins!

Game Seven!

It's been a long time since i've been excited about hockey, but i've officially had Bruins fever for a while now. Partly because I live outside of Boston, partly because I went to the same university as spectacular goalie Tim Thomas (UVM, for those of you sorry enough not to know), and partly because the Stanley Cup playoffs are just simply awesome. The Bruins / Canucks series has been very entertaining to watch, even if it's been frustrating as hell watching the Bruins' offensive futility up in Vancouver.

But all that's put aside now: it's time for Game Seven! A game seven in hockey is in my mind the most exciting game in all of sports. It's do or die for two teams that have beaten the crap out of each other for six games already. The big difference between hockey and basketball game sevens is that in hockey, the refs tend to put their whistles away and let the players sort it all out. Which, given how brutal this series has already been, could get nasty! As prohockeytalk puts it:

If you think you’ve got this series all figured out, throw that knowledge out the window because Game 7 is a prison riot on ice. Anything can happen and anything goes. Records get tossed out the window and sometimes the rule book does too.

Go Bruins!