Originally Posted by Wes Mantooth

Well congrats to the Flyers they pulled off some history last night!

I don't even know how to comment on the epic, massive and complete failure the Bruins managed to pull off last night. Boston, New England sports has a pretty long history of surreal, disturbing, gut wrenching, kicked in the balls sports moments (Bucky Dent, 79 Bruins, Buckner, the 85 Pats, Aaron Boone, the 07 Pats, the Scott Walker goal off the top of my head) and yet somehow last night the Boston Bruins failed in such a spectacular way they may have cemented themselves on the very top of that list. Really if you've lived through and grown up with these teams you'd understand exactly how amazing and...somehow fascinating that achievement is. Not only do they blow a 3-0 series lead (only the 4th team in history to do so) they manage to blow a game 7, 3-0 lead and give up the winning goal on a too many men on the ice penalty (shades of the 79 Bruins...the Don Cherry Curse lives on)...are they kidding? You'd think they sat down and tried to figure out exactly how to make the loss sting in the worst possible way and then multiplied it by a million.

Seriously there is so much failure packed into one night my brain is spinning just trying to get it all straight. Wow.


Anyway how about an Eastern Conference Final between the number 7 and 8 seeds, that's pretty bizarre. Stranger still the possibility exists for a Stanley Cup Playoff between number 8 in the East and number 1 in the West. Wild! You just have to love hockey!