Ducks and Redux
More on my hockey obssession. Feel free to move on.
I cannot deny that the better team won last night. I am rather disappointed that the Ducks didn’t play as well in the last two periods as they did in the first. I’m even more disappointed in the quality of the game, though. I was hoping it would be a tight, one-goal game…sort of like game six, but with a final score of 1-0 or 2-1 maybe. Possibly even some overtime. Alas, it was not to be. When the Devils got their second goal midway through the second period, I looked at Ed and said “Well, that’s the game.”
It was nice to see J-S Giguere win the Conn Smythe (playoff MVP) trophy. He wasn’t the best goalie in Stanley Cup finals, but he did take a relatively young franchise ranked 7th in the conference to a seven-game final series, and that’s certainly noteworthy. I would have liked to see Adam Oates win a championship, though. This is the sixth time he’s been to finals and not won, and at 40, he’s unlikely to get there again.
Oh well. There’s always next season…after what Ed calls the Great Summer Sports Drought. (Baseball is a game, not a sport. Neither of us can be convinced otherwise.)
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