MONDAY COMMENTARY – “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?”
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IF I’M DREAMING DON’T WAKE ME.
TODAY’S IS ONE LAST COMMENTARY FROM MONTREAL AND THE STANLEY CUP FINAL. YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT A DREAM COME TRUE? THIS IS IT.
WELL, NOT FOR THE MONTREAL CANADIENS. THEY HOST TAMPA BAY IN TONIGHT’S GAME 4 AND NEED A VICTORY TO AVOID A SWEEP.
AND TO BE HONEST, COMING TO MONTREAL FOR THE STANLEY CUP FINAL HASN’T BEEN WHAT YOU’D EXPECT. COVID CONTINUES TO TAKE A MAJOR BITE OUT OF THIS TOWN, AND THE NORMAL MONTREAL VIBE ISN’T WHAT WE’RE USED TO.
THEN THE SERIES ITSELF HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY LOPSIDED. FRIDAY’S GAME 3 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE SWING GAME, BUT INSTEAD THE HABS GOT WHALLOPED 6-3 TO PUT THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING ON THE VERGE OF A SWEEP.
I WAS MILDLY HOPING TO BE IN THE SEA OF 30-OR-SO THOUSAND HABS FANS OUTSIDE THE BELL CENTRE BUT AN INVITATION TO HAVE SUPPER AT THE HOUSE OF CANADIENS GREAT CHRIS “KNUCKLES” NILAN AND WATCH THE GAME WAS FAR BETTER.
THAT WAS A NIGHT I’LL NEVER FORGET. MANY HAVE ASKED HOW I KNOW KNUCKLES AND LET’S JUST SAY – WE’RE BOTH GLAD TO BE ABLE TO NOW REMEMBER GREAT NIGHTS LIKE THAT. AND WE’RE NO LONGER ASHAMED TO TALK ABOUT IT.
BUT THE BUZZ IN TOWN SINCE WE GOT HERE HAS BEEN FLAT. SURE, ALL THE BUSINESSES ARE ADORNED IN CANADIENS GEAR AND THAT INFAMOUS “C-H” LOGO IS EVERY WHERE YOU TURN. THE SKYSCRAPERS ARE LIT UP IN RED, WHITE & BLUE.
BUT THESE PEOPLE KNOW THEIR HOCKEY. AND THEY KNOW THE SERIES WILL LIKELY END TONIGHT. THEY’RE NOT EVEN EXPECTING A MIRACLE TO HAPPEN, FOR THEM TO WIN THEIR 25TH STANLEY CUP.
ONE MONTREAL’ER WAS CLASSY ENOUGH TO SAY IT WOULD BE NICE FOR THE SERIES TO GO TO TAMPA FOR THE LIGHTNING TO WIN IT AT HOME. MANY ARE SAYING HOW GREAT IT IS TO MAKE IT THIS FAR, BUT IT’S ONLY MADE IT HURT MORE.
THAT WASN’T REALLY WHAT I EXPECTED BUT AS WE’VE SAID ON THE COMMENTARY SO MANY TIMES THIS SPRING, WHAT IN THESE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS HAS BEEN EXPECTED?
SO WE’LL BE WATCHING TONIGHT AND PERHAPS SEE OUR FRIEND PHIL PRITCHARD PRESENTING THE STANLEY CUP.
MAYBE THE HOCKEY GODS WILL DECIDE TO SHOW UP.
THAT’S TODAY’S ROD PEDERSEN COMMENTARY
July 5th, 2021,
NHL season getting far too long in the tooth. Proposed 2021, 2022 season start October 12th which means these players right back at it late August, for sure September including the Seattle Kracken.
What do you care? To quote the former iconic Montreal Alouettes Head Coach Dan Hawkins, as he described parents/players whining about NCAA commitments; “It’s Division I football! It’s the Big 12! It ain’t intramurals! You’ve got two weeks after finals. You’ve got a week at July 4th. You’ve got a week before camp starts. That’s a month! That’s probably more vacation than you guys (reporters) get. And we’re a little bummed out that we don’t get three weeks? Go play intramurals, brother. Go play intramurals.”
If they don’t like it they can go sell insurance and put in 8-5/day/40/week.
hockey has to correct itself.
PS,
Huh! Dino Dino Dino, you’re out in left field with your comments, nobody talking football, just NHL hockey. You’re all over the place talking NCAA and intramurals,
SORRY TO HEAR THAT THE TRIP HASN’T BEEN GOING AS WELL AS YOU HAD HOPED. PRETTY AWESOME THAT THE LITTLE NETWORK SENT YOU OUT THAT WAY.
HAPPY TO HEAR THAT IT SOUNDS AS THOUGH THE TV SHOW SIDE OF THINGS IS BEING WELL RECEIVED. HEARS HOPING THAT THINGS ONLY GET BIGGER AND BETTER, EVEN IF I CAN’T TUNE IN FROM THE TRUCK THESE DAYS.
Yes I believe in miracles, Les Canadians will in overtime 3-2 just like i will win a majority Liberal Government this fall courtesy the Saskatchewan electorate. Thanks Saskatchewan people hope this doesn’t inflame Moe’s misguided pimpleheads.