Stanley Cup Playoffs - Nothing Beats OT Hockey
Playoff hockey is just about the most exciting sporting event to watch, live or otherwise, especially when a #8 seed beats a #1 seed. Who cares if it was a freak goal? A win is a win.
I’m not a big fan of either the #1 seeded San Jose Sharks, or the #8 seeded Colorado Avalanche, so it’s easy for me to pull for a great hockey game hoping in the end that David nips Goliath. In game #3 Sunday night in Colorado, that’s exactly what happened, even if it happened in a weird way.
First, the great game. Craig Anderson, goaltender for the Avs, stopped a whopping 51 shots on goal, beating the Sharks 1-0 in overtime. Now for the weird. San Jose’s Dan Boyle was attempting to clear the puck out of his own zone by shooting it around the dasher boards when the puck took a freak bounce and careened into his own goal, just getting past Sharks’ goaltender, Evgeni Nabokov, who was hugging the other post.
These things happen in hockey, but you’d know that if you watched the NHL through the regular season on NHL Center Ice, and into the playoffs. Now normally I wouldn't pick on people like this but I'm going to say it, if you are a hockey fan and you don't have NHL Center Ice from DISH Network, you are an amateur my friend. It's time you got with the big boys.
