I’m definitely just on the outskirts of hockey fandom and when the Nashville Predators aren’t in the finals I don’t have much invested at all. But because of the Predators and my time living in Nashville, I grew to enjoy the intensity that hockey matches sometimes bring. Even when I went to one game on a first date and the date was so NOT intense that we left during the second intermission and never saw each other ever again. But that’s a post for another day.
This Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers has been intense multiplied by a thousand!
For Florida to go up 3 games to none is impressive. However, is it MORE impressive that the Oilers were down 3 games and just tied the series last night? All Florida had to do was win one more game… just one more game, you buffoons… and they’d be hoisting the cup as champions. Well, now all they have to do is just win one more game… again! But for the Oilers, all they have to do is win one more game, too. It’s been so fun to watch an amazing comeback from our neighbors to the north (Canada, eh) and I can’t help but root for them to make the comeback of comebacks by winning game 7 in shocking fashion.
This is why I love sports. The competition. The unpredictability. The underdog (if the Oilers can be called that) defying odds to do what no one thought could be done. In fact, that’s what makes so many stories wonderful to hear, watch, or be part of. On the flip side, when there’s no underdog and the protagonists just go about their business winning everything because everything is possible, there’s no fun in that. Yes, I’m doing a callback to my post about Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1.
Hockey is so fun to watch. And because the Oilers have extended the Finals for one more game, that just means once it’s over football is closer than it was when Florida coulda, shoulda, woulda won it all in game 4.
-Out of the Wilderness
Out of the Wilderness 