Tonight, the Anaheim Ducks beat the Detroit Red Wings, 4-3 to go to the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Finals. This is great news for Orange County, which for us would be Republican Mecca, and for Southern California that may make ice hockey as important a sport as baseball, basketball and football.
The Ducks will play the Ottawa Senators which makes this Final even more exciting as it will be between Canada and the United States. While the hockey powers-to-be do all they can to destroy the sport (kind of sounds like Bud Selig doing to major league baseball), the sport continues even though its television contract is on a cable network no one has ever heard of-for the record its VERSUS-rule changes that do not add anything but confusion, the players play on and there is nothing in pro or college sports like the Stanley Cup Playoffs. What happened tonight at the end of the game is something you do not see in other sports. The players on each team line up and congratulate each other, the winners and the losers. There is also nothing like seeing a playoff game go into sudden-death overtime and a game going as many as four, 20 minute periods of overtime before someone scores to end the misery.
Well, I for one can not wait until Saturday night when game one is played in Anaheim. I can not wait for Red America to beat the Blue Canucks! Prediction: Ducks in five games. GO DUCKS!
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