Tuesday Commentary: The Good, The Great & The Ugly
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It’s Tuesday and time for the Good, the Great & the Ugly!
First the good: If you can call it that. It appears the Memorial Cup will be headed to Ontario. That’s just a feeling of course, because the tourney’s only four days old, but the OHL-champion Kitchener Rangers whipped the WHL-champion Everett Silvertips 6-2 Monday night in Kelowna in a game which was billed as a Finals preview.
We’ll see, of course. The playoffs are still at hand this weekend, but the Rangers appear to be the class of the field.
Next the great: As they say, every good story needs a villain. The Vegas Golden Knights are fulfilling that role in the Stanley Cup Playoffs spectacularly.
The Knights go for a sweep of the Western Conference Final tonight, needing a win over the Colorado Avalanche in the Fortress. The renaissance of the team under the fiery John Tortorella – who took over from Bruce Cassidy with eight games left in the regular season – has a lot of hockey folk scratching their heads, and haters gnashing their teeth.
Pundits are asking too, why the Oilers didn’t go after goalie Carter Hart? Why didn’t the Flyers get compensation for giving him away? While these people stare at the sky, the Golden Knights are laughing their way to the Stanley Cup.
You snooze, you lose.
Analyst Craig Simpson said on the broadcast last night of the playoffs, “These twists and turns are unbelievable!”
He’s right. It’s been a great Stanley Cup Playoffs.
And finally the ugly: The Jays played their first game of the season without Vlady Monday night, and got bombed 8-2 by the Miami Marlins, who’ve won a season-high four games. Toronto wasted a great outing from young starter Trey Yesavage, who went 6 2/3 innings. The first thing I thought when Guerrero got hurt on Sunday?
That we’re now gonna experience life without Vlady for the first time. And it ain’t good.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary.
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