Good night: This allergy medicine has me all discombobulated
The Lead
Okay, I took like 100 allergy medicines a few hours ago and they’re reaaaally starting to sink in here, so I need to make sure what I saw earlier tonight was correct…
It was Game 7. The third-seeded Devils. At home. Up 3-2. Just 80 seconds to go. Best goalie ever. Best defensive team ever.
And they LOSE? To CAROLINA? On a goal by ERIC STAAL?
Look, I understand the Hurricanes played New Jersey real tight all year, but this is terrible. There are no words for how embarrassing this is. These goals that beat Marty Brodeur were both from bad angles and really, I don’t know how either went in.
The good news was that both teams brought it tonight, I guess. Excellent hockey game. But the way the Devils lost is seriously unconscionable.
I honestly don’t even know what to say, really. And this allergy medicine isn’t helping me think with any great degree of lucidity (although I was able to use the word “lucidity” properly so who knows what goes on?). I honestly just don’t get it. I like Killa Cam Ward and everything, but how does he outduel Marty freaking Brodeur?
Here’s some more bad news, by the way. You’ve got two days without hockey with which to deal. Regular season baseball or the NBA playoffs are our fallbacks.
That, like the Devils loss, is totally unacceptable.
Elsewhere…
Washington 2, New York Rangers 1
Okay seriously, this allergy medicine has me loopier than Sami Kapanen after Darcy Tucker (is that who that was?) ran him over in the playoffs that one time. I don’t know if this even makes sense at this point. But I do know this: if every NHL team shot at nothing but Henrik Lundqvist’s high glove, his save percentage would be .657 and the Rangers would lose every game by 12.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
So maybe Brodeur should have stopped that last cupcake of a shot, but he didn’t. Nor did he stop any of Staal’s 4 other goals in the series (5 goals is tied for 1st with Semin for most in the quarterfinals). The Devils made mistakes, but the Canes took advantage of those mistakes to win it, in a ridiculously dramatic fashion (for the second time this series). Here’s to hoping that every other series can be as awesome as this one was.