Been a While...

It has been sometime since I wrote, and to you my loyal followers, I apologize. My trip out east kept me very busy with little time for blogging, and since returning my attention has been devoted to work as well as catching up on rest and time with Kylie.

Speaking of my trip out east, I was moderatley disappointed to wake up in Montreal the morning after the Canadiens lost Game Seven in Boston to learn that the loyal Hab fans were...well....pretty well behaved. The city was surely preparing for the worst....police in groups of four, some on foot, some on horseback...I was pumped for a gong show. It was ironic however that overnight it started to rain, and rained most of the morning after. Is God himself a Canadien fan, and thus was sobbing?

Sticking to my trip, we had this 'different' tour guide for a tour of Montreal. What got me was as we drove by Molson Stadium, home of the Alouettes, she bragged about how the Als pack in up to 27, 000 people to watch home games. While keeping my mouth shut, I was so wanting to say...Lady...your city has 3.5 million people and you brag about 27, 000? Where we come from...there is a little more than 1, 000, 000 and we pack 30, 000 plus in every game and more would be there if tickets were available. It is too bad the Als are in Montreal..a good team in a brutal football market with nothing for fan support.


So on to the NHL Play - off's and for only the third time in NHL history has a #1 seed been swept aside. This comes after Tampa's 5 - 3 win over Washington the other night in south Florida. Is it just me, or are others as tired of the Capitals...every year there is this talk about this being their year and every year they do NOTHING! I am in no way a Capitals fan but with all those expectations and talent, how can you NOT surpass the second round??? Let me tell you why I think this is, and what they need to do in order to move forward. First off, the Capitals have a ton of talent; you can't deny them that. They flat out score goals but where is the heart? Who on that team has a heart and a desire to win? Who is going to do anything it takes to win? The only guy on the team I see possessing that type of desire and will to win is Brooks Laich (good ol' Saskatchewan boy of course) and he's a UFA this year. While he certainly could stay in DC, I think he will be a hot commodity come July for exactly that which I mentioned above. He brings a lot to the table aside from his ability to put the puck in the back of the net.
Not to take anything away from Micheal Neuvirth as he may turn out to be the goalie to get them to the promised land, but when will this organization see the importance of goaltending in the post season (see Philadelphia Flyers) and thus make the move to acquire a bonafide #1 goaltender. With the talent they have, it should not take much to convinve a first rate tender that Washington is a team that could earn you a ring.
Lastly, and disregard what I am about to say if you heard the comments of GM George McPhee yesterday, Bruce Boudreau needs to go. Sure he might be a good coach as McPhee stated but how many chances are you going to get? A lot better coaches than him have been fired, and they don't have the innate abilty to stick a size 11 loafer in their mouth like Bruce does. If you have all that talent, and can't get them deep into the play - off's, who else should take the blame? It is easy to look good as coach of the Caps; a mannequin could be nominated for the Adams Award standing behind the Caps bench because they flat out score goals and are a great regular season team. **NOTE: No team has ever won the Stanley Cup by being a great regular season team** And that is what I think about the Capitals. I do enjoy wathing them lose, what about you Gennie? (Gennie is my fifteen year old sister with a disturbing infatuation for Ovechkin and the Caps)

Onwards to the West and Nashville should feel like they have been robbed. The Shea Weber hooking call in OT of Game Three was a JOKE! If anything, that is holding the stick on Kesler. Yeah, yeah you naysayers are going to say make - up call but come on, this is Game Three of a tied series, not the 43rd game of the regular season. What makes it worse for me is the call comes on the heels of Mike Gillis crying over the officiating. Mike Gillis...perhaps you should hire Bruce Boudreau as then the Canucks will have two of the biggest loud mouths in the NHL. Anyway we can make it a trifecta and add Brian Burke to the Vancouver staff?

Some Rider fans are laughable. Yesterday the Riders signed Chris Leak, who had spent the past three seasons in Montreal. Today, blog comments about this signing include such comments as why would we want him when he wasn't wanted by Montreal. Uh....HELLO....have you heard of Anthony Calvillo? He is kind of good and plays the same position in Montreal. Shut up and give the guy a chance...he did after all win a NCAA National Title and set some passing records at the University of Florida which is a moderately respected University. Yes, I know that NCAA success does not always equate to CFL success, but come on...it's May 5th and you already want to run him out of town? These no - minds are the Brian Burke's of the world...he loves to hear his voice, and these idiots just like to write stuff down that is completely irrelevant and idiotic.

Other than that, look for the Bruins to finish off the Flyers tonight, the Wings to live to see another day, and well....more Rider fans to continue to think they are smarter than Brendan Taman. Uhm..I think the car at Pump Six needs gas...get back to your job.