On the Wings

It’s happening again. The Ducks beat the Stars in the 5th overtime last night, 4-3. Our buddy JS Giguere had 60 saves, 40 in OT. Turco had 51 saves. I watched some of the game and it had a lot more action than the Wings/Ducks games. There was a stretch of play in the 3rd where it was end to end for about 5 minutes, with clutching and grabbing being the main ways players were kept from scoring. The Ducks looked to be getting all the lucky breaks once again because the Stars had many chances where the puck went just wide or a pass went bad. I’m pulling for the Ducks, even though the fanatic in me wants the Ducks to be destroyed. You can’t judge the 1st round until the 2nd round is over so if the Ducks beat the Stars, theoretically, the Wings don’t look so bad, even though every Wings fan knows what would have happened had the Wings faced the Stars. Four of four games with the Stars were ties this season. That would have been an exciting series but we got stuck with the boring, lucky Ducks……

Anyway, the other playoff game last night was between the Devils and the Lightning. The Devils shut out the Lightning and won 3-0. Is anyone surprised about that? I’m not. The Devils get a lead and then shut down the other team using their insanely boring system and Martin Brodeur’s brillancy. I wouldn’t expect the Lightning to win any games in the series.

The Wild play the Canucks tonight in Vancouver @ 10:30 EST (stupid West Coast games…ugh!). Though I’ve said I’ll be cheering for the Wild, I’m actually struggling to decide which team I really will cheer for. I like the Wild and they beat the Avs, those are good reasons to cheer for them. On the other hand, they have an incredibly boring system that will probably end up killing exciting, offensive hockey in the future (I can only hope that as the Wild get more talent, Lemaire will begin to use another system). I’m not sure if I want to cheer for a team that plays a suffocating style like that. The problem I have with cheering for the Canucks is that they’re coached by Marc Crawford, the former Avs head coach who almost took Bowman down a few years ago. I guess I’ll be glad when the Wild win but not mad when the Canucks do. I won’t be able to watch many of the games anyway, since they’re all on late and school starts up again next week.

The other game tonight is the Ottawa/Philadelphia game. I have nothing to say about this except I hope the Sens win, even though I’m not so sure they will. Lack of toughness.