Yes.
April 19, 2006It’s over. This Leafs season is in the books. Here’s your hat–what’s your hurry?
At least they went out in that proverbial blaze of glory–finally beating those dratted Ottawaaaah Senaturds for the first freakin’ time this season. But it was all for naught, as the Tampa Bay Lightning also beat the Carolina Huricanes in OT on Saturday night, guaranteeing the Lightning would finish with more points than Toronto. When “Hockey Night in Canada” switched over to the Tampa/Carolina game that night, I imagined the Toronto dressingroom–guys sitting around, dripping with sweat because they didn’t take the time to shower yet and dare miss the Tampa/Carolina finish–the excitement and hope mounting in them as it did in me as Carolina fought back from a two-goal deficit to tie the game by the end of the third and send it into OT. Then, with only 10 seconds left in that OT, Tampa’s Martin St. Louis handed them the soap. G’wan have yer showers, boys. Get the stink of this season offa y’selves.
