some comments on sports i care about

first on the nhl...

good to see edmonton in the finals. i was worried they were going to be swept but they came back with a good effort in game 3. to see tampa come from behind to beat calgary two years ago, and then maybe see carolina beat edmonton this year...that would be an insult to a true hockey fan as everybody knows that calgary and edmonton are true hockey cities. hockey might be the number 12 sport in raleigh-durham and tampa bay, right behind horse racing and bowling.

the canucks crumbled yet again, that wasnt surprising...what was surprising is that they did it before the playoffs even began. and to anybody who said who cares, who wants eighth place to get whipped by detroit in the first round, well, tell that to any edmonton oiler fan. they rightly fired marc crawford, who the players had obviously tuned out even before the lockout began and who treated the team facilities like a country club. next on the agenda is to unload bertuzzi to an eastern conference team, resign ed jovanovski, and finally, finally find a goalie either thru a trade or through free agency. its clear cloutier cant stay healthy and that auld is simply good at being mediocre.

and onto that other sport i care about...soccer...its just huge over here. even people that care nothing about sports (ie; high school girls, housewives, ect...) know the japanese soccer team and are going to watch the japanese soccer games. in fact, the first japanese game is tonight, versus of all countries, australia. i predict a japan victory. the teams im going for are england for heritage purposes, the czech republic and japan for solidarity purposes. the teams i think will get near the finals, in this order, are argentina, england, and the netherlands. luckily (and unluckily for amanda), every game is on tv, which means a night of soccer every night for the next month. woohoo!