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The Stanley Cup Finals are off to a great start this year. To be honest, I really hate both teams. I’ve always hated the Detroit Red Wings. I hate the Pittsburgh Penguins even worse, mainly because of their star kid Sidney Crosby. Let me get some stuff out of the way first. I think Sid The Kid is extremely talented. I think he is one of the best players in the league and will be for a long, long time.

However. The kid needs to grow up and learn to be a man. By default, I am required to hate him. That’s how us Flyers fans are. But us fans can only take the diving and complaining and crying so long. This only continued in last nights game 2. If you saw the game, you saw Sid pull a ref over to the Pen’s bench and whine and complain about god knows what. You would think that the Pen’s coach Therrien would be used to complaining. He apparently wasn’t used to it, because he took the time to do some whining of his own:

It’s really tough to generate offense with that team. They’re good at obstruction. It’s going to be real tough. If the rules don’t change, they’re just good at obstruction.

He then had the nerve to call Detroit’s goalie Chris Osgood “a good actor and diver.” That really is too funny…

Megadeth Rules!

Well you have all read my rant about Mike Wise’s Washington Post article regarding the Flyers. Well we now have some more information. In case you forgot, Mike likes to make wild accusations based on no factual evidence whatsoever. Basically, he is a jackass know-nothing. Just one more quote from Mike:

It’s almost impossible to fathom, but the Capitals took the ice in front of a building as loud as Verizon Center last Friday. The fans wore orange instead of the Capitals’ red, and many of the women and children looked as if they could work security for Megadeth.

Hey Mikey, metal god Dave Mustaine had a response for you:

“Hey Flyer fans, we’re Megadeth, and I read what they said in the Washington Post about you, and you can work security for us anytime! Now kick ass! It’s time to crush ’em!

That’s right, Megadeth in Flyers jerseys. After that, Mike then went on Washington Post Live and stated that he just reserected Megadeth’s career and boosted record sales, and that they now may finally sell more albums then Journey.

Heh. Mike is a real toolbag. Someone needs to play “Symphony Of Destruction” or “Sweating Bullets” for Mike’s candy ass…

Yeah yeah I am a bit slow to respond, but time is not really something I have a whole lot of these days. Anyway. The Flyers did beat “Canada’s Team,” the Montreal Canadiens in only 5 games. Really, it should have been 4, but I won’t complain. I never thought the Orange And Black would ever get this far. It has to be one of the greatest seasonal turnarounds in NHL history. Remember, the Flyers finished DEAD LAST last season by a very large margin. Anyway, I think everyone needs to give the Flyguys a bit of respect.

So when things don’t go your way and you lose to the Philadelphia Flyers in five games, you’re probably going to blame yourself more than you’re going to lionize the other squad. Which is basically what Montreal Canadiens Coach Guy Carbonneau did when he said, “The Flyers seemed to take advantage of every bounce and break they got.”

Heh. Figures. Carbonneau can bite me. I think Flyers center (not centre you crazy Canadians) says it best:

“I was a little disappointed with the quotes I saw” from the Canadiens after the series victory over Montreal, Flyers center Danny Briere said yesterday. “When you win a series in five games, at some point you had to do something well. But that’s the way it has been for us all year.”

Sure we (I do mean we, us hard core fans do bleed orange) did get some lucky bounces to go our way. But really, did we get 4 straight wins (2 on the road mind you) lucky? Come on, give them a little credit. Such is life when you are called the Broad Street Bullies.

Keep your eyes glued to the TV folks. This Eastern Conference Championship series has for the first time turned into the battle of Pennsylvania. To say “it will be good” has to be the understatement of the year.