I know I blathered earlier about the season being officially over for me but there was one last game they had to play. I am so glad I didn’t bother to watch. The Hershey Bears cremated my Stars 4-0. Jeremy went to the watching party and even he left by the second intermission; we tend to let the crowd split and stick around until the final buzzer. He had razzed me in the comment section about saying the Calder Championship wasn’t over yet. Unfortunately, I was correct. The way the Bears celebrated their OT victory I could tell my team was done, they had nothing left in the tank. It’s the same prediction I made over the 2002 Stanley Cup series after the Detroit Red Wings won that triple-overtime insanity; I knew the Carolina Hurricanes were through because Hockeytown had all the momentum.<\/p>\n
Hopefully many of the players will stay and maintain the core which took us this far. I do predict a couple of them making the roster in Dallas: Perttu Lindgren is a lock. It’s hard to tell with the others due to their age yet I think Warren Peters and Francis Wathier could cut in the NHL if they were on a third line emphasizing checking.<\/p>\n
Before I go to bed, I’m going to shave off my beard and see how quickly I can grow a new one with 41 days left to Vegas. Like a weird mourning ritual, especially now that I went 0-3. Oh yeah, and to find a place that will stitch the Calder 2010 patch I scored to put on my customized Stars jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know I blathered earlier about the season being officially over for me but there was one last game they had to play. I am so glad I didn’t bother to watch. The Hershey Bears cremated my Stars 4-0. Jeremy … Continue reading