MONDAY COMMENTARY – BEST SERIES?
Photo: Tampa Bay Lightning
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Sometimes it’s best to take a weekend to just unplug.
For me that doesn’t mean going to a one-room cabin in the woods with no Wifi, but rather to a small Saskatchewan town like Southey to speak to the kids at their annual Minor Hockey Association wind-up, and connect with the real people.
It was a great brain refresh to then jump back into the throes of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and hear opinions from all angles regarding Round 1 which turns one week old tonight.
If you can block out the noise, it’s been a pretty good playoff so far. The critics would disagree, saying the hockey hasn’t been great and the officiating has been bad, or even one-sided.
I disagree. And Sunday night it got me to’ wondering what’s been the best series of the eight so far?
It depends on what you want.
The Leafs/Lightning affair has featured some vastly lopsided scores and has denigrated into a war of words on and off the ice. If you like that kind of stuff, then maybe you’d vote for them. I don’t really.
Honestly I think you’d have to go with the Oilers & Kings, which is currently tied 2-2. Three of the four games have gone to overtime, and the other was decided by two goals.
Does it get much better than that? There’s even been some controversial calls to add some spice to the soup!
But the Oilers won Sunday night so you haven’t heard any griping about the refs out of the City of Champions today.
By the way, I don’t care for the diving of the L.A. Kings but that’s been a trait of their coach Todd McLelland going back to his days in Swift Current.
Keep that between us.
And you’d get a big argument out of Winnipeg and Vegas that that series has been the best and Game 4 goes tonight in the Slurpee Capital. If the Jets don’t win, you’d have to think it’s over.
Here’s a tip: Hockey is just like life. It’s easy, and is mean to be enjoyed.
It’s people who complicate it.
That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary
(The Rod Pedersen Show airs daily at 12 pm ET on Game+ TV, WQEE Radio & Streaming)
Agreed, “hockey is meant to be enjoyed” no matter the venue or league but the biased prejudice cheer leading by network announcers;in Canada favoring Edmonton, Toronto, Winnipeg is highly annoying and highly unprofessional on television broadcasts night in night out. Really annoying!