The Illogical Wild World Of Sports!

Let me get this straight now:
the Boston Bruins have garnered 5 more points versus the rest of the NHL than the Montreal Canadiens have - but, because, in head-to-head match-ups, the Bruins didn't get any breaks at all (managing only to garner one point in the standings, the dreaded "loser point", in a game they didn't really lose but actually should have won - because "losing" under shootout rules is not really "losing" - it is just forcing out a result when there wasn't any Canadiens garbage goal scored in "real playing" time to steal it for them... But I am digressing, I think...) it is, hence, the Canadiens who are battling the Penguins for top spot in the Eastern Conference...
And the Bruins are battling for mere positioning with the rest of the contenders, in constant danger of being left out from the dance party...

On top of that, in that one game in which Lady Luck ALLOWED the Boston Bruins to collect ONE POINT, at least, against the "Habs" - that sneaky s.o.b. otherwise beloved as Steve Bégin nailed Bruins playmaker Marc Savard FROM BEHIND. There was clearly penalty-worthy material there; but there wasn't any on the play! And Savard hasn't played since. Still, without their top center Savard, without top scorer Patrice Bergeron and without winger Chuck Kobasew too, the Bruins have gone on a winning streak since then. While the Canadiens have become sloppy - and seen their own top guy, Saku, get sacked in the footsie and he is out for "four weeks" just like that. Four WEEKS? Why not say "out A MONTH" - don't you know that four weeks make up a month? Plus, while losing to already eliminated Toronto (beaten twice in a row by Boston - who effectively eliminated the Leafs in the process) the "Habs" managed to get another guy injured too; a mere foot soldier like Francis Bouillon, but still! That is a good start - but some more injuries would be nice to truly see if the Candiens ae "that good" at all. If they are, they should be able to go on a winning streak like the Boston Bruins just did, not play so sloppily the moment they're the FIRST team "qualified for the playoffs"...

Qualified for a hasty elimination too! It was so laughable to see the Montreal rabble scramble for the mere 4000 tickets put on sale for the first round of the playoffs - and most going crazy that they got a pair or up to four tickets! And some would make inane predictions like "we're going all the way this year" - right. That same night, they couldn't beat a team that's already OUT of it: the Maple Leafs!

I don't know how it came to this - but a team like Montreal being able to pass for a "championship caliber team" has got to be right up there with any of Houdini's tricks!

Make it any of that Mindfreak's tricks, rather - Houdini had too much class for Montreal! Criss Angel (he's no angel - but you know it already) is more like your average Guy Carbonneau, Mike Komisarek or Tom Kostopoulos: a poser who does it all with smoke and mirrors! One who can't even SPELL for his own freaking sake - but that is beside the point right now...!)

And speaking of freaking Guy - he who always looks spooked at a post-game mediatic event, even when his team stole another one... I mean, what the hell Guy - you've seen cameras before! You've had to give out PLENTY of excuses before: more than you've had to flaunt anything! You look even more spooked than your namesake, Lafleur, when he went to court because his son is a ruffian who roughs up his girlfriends' fathers!!! And you even look CLUELESS as what to say when your dear Saguenéens de Chicoutimi are involved in barbarics on ice, with your old buddy Pat Roy providing the beatings on your own goalie, via his own ruffian of a son! But of course, how could Guy Carbonneau cry foul there, when his own players don't miss an opportunity to deliver cowardly illegal low blows, one after the other, and get away with it because even two NHL referees are not enough to make ONE good call!

I sincerely hope that the next player laid out and carried away on a stretcher is that little runt Bégin. That bastard had only this to say after cross-checking Marc Savard FROM BEHIND: "I was only playing my game"
(His actual inane words were more abysmal, because he spoke French and phrased it like this: "J'jouais ma game" - sheesh, that is not even his language! That is "Frenglish" and that should cost him another 2 minutes in the box right there! No wonder Saku can't say a word of French - heck, even G.M. Bob Gainey can hardly articulate anything other than gibberish, and he's the G.M. who's been around that town for over 30 years now!!! Bégin, though, has NO EXCUSE - wasn't he BORN THERE?!? He can't play "his game" CLEANLY, can't compete FAIRLY... and he can't even SPEAK HIS OWN MOTHER TONGUE! Truly, utterly PATHETIC!)

It is completely illogical for ANY fan to clamor that their "Glorieux" are any good, or better than any other team - especially the Boston Bruins! These Bruins who handle the Senators much better than the Habs EVER did, even back when they were a truly laughable collection of ''expressly-picked-for-an-expansion-team'' players akin to the ''Mickey Mouses of hockey'' that the New Jersey Devils once were, at least in Wayne Gretzky's mind...! (The Great One - now the coach of the Looney Tunes of hockey, the Phoenix Coyotes! Still looney they are, even though they're lacking the colorful presence of their Yosemite Sam of service, Jeremy Roenick! But I am digressing once again here...)

It is illogical to call the Montreal franchise "Glorieux" to begin with - they inherited tradition of decades past, they didn't accomplish a thing. And chokers like Alexei Kovalev tend to vanish when they are TRULY NEEDED...

Plus: none of the "Habs" have class - a Marc Savard, an Aaron Ward, a Patrice Bergeron, a Phil Kessel, a Marco Sturm, a P.J. Axelsson, a Petteri Nokelainen; now THOSE guys are gentlemen players!

I know - that's illogical too, to be a gentleman, to bring finesse to a game that is sheer brutality on ice. That's why Shawn Thornton was brought in too...
And guys like Jay Miller, Chris Nilan and Bruce Shoebottom were teammates with Ray Bourque, Craig Janney and Cam Neely!

Even classy organizations know that they have to compete - fight fire with fire sometimes!

Even though those who kill by the sword shall perish by the sword.

Even though eye for an eye is not the solution...

But you cannot give pearls to swine either, you know...