Sir Stanley's Cup

In this moment I would like to congratulate the Boston Bruins for their victory in Vancouver that capped off their championship season. Instead of going too much into the classless actions of Vancouver fans with their rioting and so forth, which is certain to give that franchise and community a "black eye" for many years to come, I feel it is more important to focus more on the positive while still mentioning the negative. The Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in nearly 40 years, led by a goalie who was a pure stone cold killer, if you will, during this series.

Tim Thomas allowed only 8 goals in 7 games. Now think about that for a minute that is a staggering statistic. While most of the blame will go on Roberto Luongo, and rightfully so he does deserve some blame, why not instead turn that blame into credit towards Tim Thomas, because no matter how bad Luongo may have played at times, you simply can not win a hockey game without scoring goals.

The best part of the entire series to me however, has to be that the series went seven games. I myself am a big football basketball and baseball fan, and in basketball and baseball you can also experience a game seven (every playoff game in football is a game 7) and in seven games you are very rarely going to see a team be able to fluke their way to a series win. Generally if the series goes all seven games the better of the two teams comes out on top. Of all these sports I whole hearted believe hockey owns the most exciting game seven experience. The games are typically so low scoring in hockey making the drama of each big play that much more important. Opposed to basketball where there is scoring all over the place and constant blowouts, and baseball where one poor individual performance by a pitcher can ruin your whole season, with hockey it takes a consistency from the whole team to last through a game seven that is not seen in other sports.

This is not to take away from the other sports at all, they all certainly have their share of excitement and exciting moments, it is just different with hockey. I can admit that I am not the type to sit through many hockey games on television but having gone to several in person it is one of the best atmospheres to experience in person in all of sports.

So congratulations Boston Bruins on making the Patriots organization now hold the longest championship drought in Boston at a whopping 6 years, and as said before in seven games the better team will typically come out on top, well in this case the victory also goes to the more deserving fan base. Congratulations Boston Bruins, your organization, and fans everywhere, and enjoy hoisting Sir Stanley's Cup.

Richard Rodawalt

AB3 Sports