Eight games left in the season... I feel that now is a good time to look back at my season's predictions and laugh about how little I actually know. This is a humbling exercise because I think I got maybe 1 or 2 right.
Sometimes something from above interferes and delivers a miracle. With the Habs up 4-1, losing the lead (again) and heading to shootout, I honestly believed that if Devin Setoguchi had not somehow tripped, he would have scored and the 4th round would not have gone in the Habs favour. It was a hockey miracle.
Been a long time since I've written a post...an awkward amount of time actually. My excuses are feeble and few. In the summer I focus on tennis and softball and not on writing a blog. Then before I knew it training camp was over and the Habs are playing their first game tomorrow! What will my first post be? How about some season predictions, if only because I like to look back at the end of the year and see how many I got wrong. First though, a little side-blog plug. This season I'll also be writing for a new Habs blog called the Montreal Bias. I'll try and not be repetitive in my posts on this blog and that blog.
Darling you got to let me know. Should he stay or should he go? It's May 2, I've voted, I've filed my taxes on time, and America found their villain. But what is actually on my mind is July 1 and what the Habs should do. My priorities are completely out of whack.
I read an interesting article in Sports Illustrated a couple months ago. It was a second by second breakdown of Crosby's OT gold medal goal. I want to try and do the same thing with the Pacioretty hit. I'm a Habs fan, and it is very hard for me to not be unbiased when I see a young and promising talent out cold on the ice after he went neck first into a steel pole. Nevertheless, I will try and be unbiased and try and dissect what was probably the worst hockey incident I've even witnessed.
Here's my theory – when Max Pacioretty got hit in the ribs with a Wisniewski point shot, the image him being rolled out in a stretcher with an IV drip scared us all. BUT...do you know what was in that IV bag? I'll tell you what it was...Tiger blood, directly sent from Charlie Sheen's personal stock.
For those that didn't hear it, Max Pacioretty went on the Team 990 and basically said that he wants to spend the season in Hamilton because he doesn't like the way Jacques Martin coaches. Alright...who is in charge of this young man, and why isn't someone coaching him on making media appearances?
