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.