Bruins Gone by a Storm

“A Storm came into Boston and eliminated the Bruins in a gust!”, Momma Gouche

The game started with Byron Bitz scoring 13 minutes into the game between the Boston Bruins and the Carolina Hurricanes, Thursday night, to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead. However, 6 minutes later Rod Brind’Amour’s’ slap shot tied the score and there were no more goals until Sergei Samsonov tipped one in at 7.45 of the second, to put Carolina up 2-1. The chances were wide spread in the game for both teams and it wasn’t until six minutes into the third that Milan Lucic tied it up 2-2 and it looked as though the momentum had swung Bostons way. At this point no one could have predicted that an over-time goal would end the game and the series. The Bruins did not look desperate  enough and may have forgotten the magic that put Carolina in this series in the first place. The heroics of game 7 in the New Jersey Devils series had one thinking, would magic strike again for the Hurricanes? Well it did and it is sort of ironic that the magic was on the stick of Scott Walker, who scored the winning goal for the Hurricanes, when many thought he should not have been in the game and that a $2500.00 fine was not sufficient punishment for punching Aaron Ward in the face in game five. Most Bostonians thought he (Walker) should have been suspended for the remainder of the series, but that was not the case. What makes the goal even more dramatic is the fact it was Walkers first NHL play-off goal of his career. Any over-time goal to decide a game — more particularily a series — is a traumatic ending for the losers, but the sting is deeper because it was Walker. The Carolina Hurricanes now go on to face the Pittsburgh Penguins, in Pittsburgh on Monday night.