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Traditional faves looking a little overwhelmed
NHL playoffs musings: It's a tale of two cities, although not a happy one for their fans. The Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs, as this is written on a Thursday night, are on the brink of elimination in the Stanley Cup playoffs. By the time you read this online or in the newspaper, either or both of those teams could be gonged. With a chance to even their respective series, both teams blew twogoal leads in game 4 and lost in overtime this week so instead of being tied 22, they found themselves down 31 and barely hanging on. The Canadiens are banged up and getting outplayed in goal against Ottawa, the Leafs look sometimes overwhelmed against a deeper and more playofftough Boston Bruins team. If, by chance, Toronto and/or Montreal are still around on Monday,[url=http://www.sport.fr/smartphones/moncler.asp]doudoune moncler[/url], it will be a minor miracle. I'm not too depressed about the Leafs this year was more about getting playoff experience for their young players, and I expect them to be good for the next several years. The future looks bright in Toronto (I've said that before, but this time I really mean it), so Leaf fans need to show a little more patience. Look at it this way: it's been 46 years, what's one or two more?
They play on the other side of Mount Thom and are a fierce rival of the Pictou County Junior Crushers, but the Truro Bearcats deserve bigtime credit for winning the Fred Page Cup title in Truro last weekend, five years after the Crushers won theirs on home ice. The Bearcats won an epic championship game in double overtime, defeating Summerside 32 to earn a trip to the Royal Bank Cup which ironically is being hosted by Summerside this weekend. I said it about the Crushers in 2008 and I'll say it now about the Bearcats: it doesn't much matter how they fare at the RBC, because they already won the tournament they really needed to win, and in front of their home fans, which is a huge bonus.
It's hard to figure out what the Vancouver Canucks are going to do. The first team to bow out of the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs swept in four by San Jose the Canucks once again got nexttonothing offensively from the Sedin twins (zero goals in four playoff games between them); their coach is starting to wear out his welcome, although I don't think he's the biggest problem; and the Canucks have to dump one of their goaltenders. The Sedins have not been able to raise their level of play in the postseason, and you wonder if maybe they ever will. I'm not sure Vancouver should trade them both, although if they could get a good deal in place it might be better to trade one of them. I understand they're twins and twins are a different animal, but there's something slightly weird about two people who have to hang around each other all the time. It's not like they're literally joined at the hips like the kind of twins who used to be called Siamese until that term became politically incorrect (Al the editor says their now called joined twins), and maybe it'd do both of them some good to get away from each other.