By Hockey Guru
Another Game 7 - another great night of hockey.
The last Game 7 went into Guru's Bizzaro world - and finished as the polar opposite of the prediciton. Rather than a tight game ending with a couple open net goals for a 5-2 Pittsburgh win, it was a one-sided affair and a 5-2 Montreal win.
The strength of the poles continues and the 7th versus 8th Eastern Conference Finals seems destined.
With all the talk about the history being made, in every post so far on the Bruins-Flyers series, how can the Guru not believe that the window to the Eastern Conference Finals will close on the Bruins tonight, as Briere, Richards and Gagne carry an advantage over the Bruins' top forwards, Savard, Recchi, Lucic and Bergeron? The top four on defense don't match up well either, and the home teams haven't fared too well in these playoffs - let alone in series-deciding games. Especially Game Sevens.
Well, the Guru has been burned before. That's why the Guru is hesitating, as Tuukka Rask will probably have a game for the ages tonight. But the Guru is nothing, if not stubborn, and will predict another Flyers 4 - Bruins 1 outcome.
The ghost of Pelle Lindbergh forgives you for your understandable change of heart after Game 3, and wants only to commend you for your initial prediction that the Flyers would come back from a 1-0 series deficit, as well as your stubborn, exclusive belief that they would come back from a 3-1 hole, a 3-2 margin and that they would finish up their historic comeback tonight.
ReplyDeleteThose were some enormous balls.
HISTORY WAS MADE!!!
ReplyDeleteNot only the third comeback from 0-3 on the ice- but the comeback from 0-3 in a game 7 - the greatest comeback ever.
Now if only the Guru could come all the way back...
POLAR EXTREMES!
ReplyDelete1-2 and 7-8;
It'll be either San Jose vs. Montreal or Chicago vs. Philadelphia (if the polar extremes continue) - but that's another article for another time....