The Bruins and Maple Leafs play their second game of their
first round series tonight. The Bruins won game one handily, but the whole
hockey world expects Toronto to fight back. Join me on the inevitable roller
coaster ride of emotion that this game will be!
6:14 p.m. – So if Senators coach Paul MacLean is a “fat
walrus,” Claude Julien is just a regular walrus, right? Or are they both
fat, even by walrus standards? The one thing I know is that this man damn sure looks
like
a
walrus.
6:18 p.m. – “Phil Kessel has
to be better.” 0-0 with 1 shot on goal. Yeah.
6:21 p.m. – Julien says the choice for the player to take Ference’s place is down to Hamilton and Bartkowski. Well, considering Bartkowski is in Providence right now, I think Dougie is a pretty safe bet.
6:24 p.m. – NESN is showing highlights from the Rangers-Caps
game. Holtby, man. He killed us in the playoffs last year and now it looks like
he’s doing the same to the Rangers.
On the other side of that is Marc Andre-Fleury. Is he going
to kill the Pens this year? I think everyone in Pittsburgh is a little unsure
about him in net. It’s definitely their Achilles’ heel – a metaphor that’s even
more apt than usual, because that really might be the only thing keeping them
from being invincible.
6:26 p.m. – How ‘bout that symbolism in the Okposo-Niskanen
fight? Okposo drew blood, and his team followed suit in the third period.
6:31 p.m. – If Julien is a walrus, Horton is a monkey.
