Commentary: Leave It To Coop

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A coupla three or so thoughts entering the weekend …

#1 – Where to start?

That was a fun night on the tube with Round 1 of the NFL Draft going on from Detroit and Game 3 of the Battle of Florida in Tampa Bay.

Somehow the NFL just has that kind of magic that keeps things interesting, and intriguing. A record SIX quarterbacks were taken in Round 1, with Atlanta shocking all by taking Washington’s Michael Penix at #8, and the Vikings trading up to get Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy two picks later.

Some will say there’s too much focus on the quarterbacks in this game but the personnel people will tell you there’s a reason for that.

If you don’t have one, you’re sunk.

#2 – I think we’re all a little shocked that the Florida Panthers are a win away from sweeping the Tampa Bay Lightning in Round 1. A victory on Saturday in Tampa will do that, and I’m excited to be in the house.

But if the Panthers are going to take the series, end it now. The rest will be key and man, do they look strong!

#3 – Lightning coach Jon Cooper opened his postgame news conference last night by calling Bob Cole the “Wayne Gretzky of announcers.”

There’s nothing else to be said. Leave it to Coop (a Notre Dame College grad in 1986) to say it better than anybody could, about the Hockey Night In Canada legend who passed away Wednesday night at age 90.

There was Bob Cole, then everybody else.

And finally #4 – Sad to see the Flin Flon Bombers got jobbed in double OT in Game 3 of the S-J Final at Melfort on Wednesday night. Replays showed the game-winner was offside.
I felt equally – or even moreso – bad for the linesman and the SJHL itself. Stuff happens.

But the hockey gods will even it out.

They always do!

That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary

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