Have you ever spent fourteen hours at a school? I wouldn't recommend it. Unless you can re-route your TV studio's server so that you can watch the Montreal Canadiens/Boston Bruins seventh game of their first round series.
Needless to say, the only good thing to come out of this (as I was cheering for the Bruins) was that I finished my homework—although that happened long before the game started.
Setting up the cast: It's been a while since I did a running diary with other characters—so let me introduce Ian Duggan and Bianca Zuniga. They're dating, and Ian is a classmate who was finishing up his documentary tonight—I stayed to keep them company.
There were other people there like Abiey, Richard, Mike, Courtney, Megan, and BA, but you won't hear from them. In fact, that's the only time you'll hear about them at all.
Let's get to it!!
7:02: Elliott Friedman informs us that Guy Carboneau is wearing his luck tie—is this bad news for the Bears (sorry, couldn’t resist)? With that, we hear that when Carey Price is on his game, he doesn’t have to move more than six inches.
7:05: A riveting musical interlude and the Bruins and Les Habitants take to the ice. The Bruins are met with a chorus of boos, while Carey Price leads the Bleu, Blanche, et Rogue out to a rousing ovation. The camera keeps going back to Saku Koivu—my first Tim McCarver moment arrives at the same time as well, and here it is: Saku Koivu will have a huge role in this game—he’ll either win, or lose the game for the Habs.
7:08: It’s refreshing not to hear anyone boo the National Anthem.
7:09: And here we go, if you didn’t have enough of him during Leafs games, its Bob Cole!! With him is Greg Millen—who ranks up there with Jamie Campbell, Tim McCarver, and Mike Wilner amongst broadcasters I can't stand.
7:11: And the puck drops, as we start with a little end-to-end action as Montreal rings one off the post. This is probably a good time to mention that I haven’t eaten since 6:30am and I’ve been staring at a computer screen all day—I may fly off the handle at some point during the next few hours—God help you if there's overtime.
7:15: There it is! The first goal of the game goes to Montreal and Ian (Also cheering for the Bruins) drops a few F-Bombs as we watch Mike Komisarek’s point shot get tipped as it ripples the twine. Ian does his best Bob Cole impression of “what a great goal” to quell his rage.
7:17: The B’s are buzzing but they can’t get anything past Carey Price. The more surprising thing is how Tim Thomas is daring enough to dive and slam into Steve Begin head-to-head on a breakaway. It looked a lot more painful than it was I guess as both were fairly quick to get up.
7:19: After a bunch of ‘close-but-no-cigar’ cheers from the crowd, Thomas quickly covers up to get a faceoff. If anyone can tell me what the Montreal fans keep cheering (Whether it's Thomas or Bruins—there's some repetitive cheer going on) I’d love to know.
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Sean Crowe about 1 year ago
"Somewhere Sean Crowe just wept into his pillow."
Yes, but because I hate the Habs. It had nothing to do with the Bruins. Had they made it another round, Jacobs would have added to his fortune. Can't have that.
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