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Two compelling stories as East finally meets West: a last-seeded team of mixed-up misfits from other teams, which blasted its way through three series in near-record time; against a 6-seed which clawed and scraped past a higher-"seeded" division winner with a worse record, then a seemingly unbeatable bunch of Bullies, and finally their PATH train rivals in a riveting (and I don't mean Craig) seven-game thriller.
So faced with such imminent drama, the NHL, showing the same wisdom that got it booted off ESPN in favor of poker tournaments and Crossfit meets, decides to take almost a whole week off before starting the Stanley Cup Finals tonight.
It's not like they had to wait for the Clippers or Lakers to play first before laying down the ice in the Staples Center. And it's bad enough that the playoffs take up the entire first two months of baseball season; why are they so hell-bent on running them into the middle of June?
I can hear the excuses. It's all for the television, and we should be happy the games are all on NBC's flagship network and not their Outdoor Life Versus Sports Whatever cable channel. Couldn't start them on a national holiday, right? (What national holiday, eh?) Or last night, when the hockey hotbeds of San Antonio and OKC were going at it on the hardwood atop the ice surface.
So if these two feel-good stories go the expected full seven games, we're looking at Lord Stanley's Cup being raised in, possibly, the wee hours of June 14th. It'll be so hot by then I can picture water skis on the zamboni.
Best of all? For the Sabres, it'll only be three months before their first preseason game:P
So faced with such imminent drama, the NHL, showing the same wisdom that got it booted off ESPN in favor of poker tournaments and Crossfit meets, decides to take almost a whole week off before starting the Stanley Cup Finals tonight.
It's not like they had to wait for the Clippers or Lakers to play first before laying down the ice in the Staples Center. And it's bad enough that the playoffs take up the entire first two months of baseball season; why are they so hell-bent on running them into the middle of June?
I can hear the excuses. It's all for the television, and we should be happy the games are all on NBC's flagship network and not their Outdoor Life Versus Sports Whatever cable channel. Couldn't start them on a national holiday, right? (What national holiday, eh?) Or last night, when the hockey hotbeds of San Antonio and OKC were going at it on the hardwood atop the ice surface.
So if these two feel-good stories go the expected full seven games, we're looking at Lord Stanley's Cup being raised in, possibly, the wee hours of June 14th. It'll be so hot by then I can picture water skis on the zamboni.
Best of all? For the Sabres, it'll only be three months before their first preseason game:P