So it’s a month later and I still haven’t fully vented my frustration over the Rangers’ second-round defeat at the hands of the Pens, but this should kind of give you an idea of how I’m still feeling: last night, ESPN flashes one of those newfangled updates on the bottom of the screen where they give you the current situation in a big-time sporting event. This one read something like “Red Wings on a power play with 2-something minutes left in the 2nd OT.” I haven’t watched a minute of this series ’cause I’m boycotting the NHL until the Blueshirts take the ice next October (you’ll find out why in a minute), but I figured I might as well tune in to see the Wings knock off Diver Crosby in humiliating 4-games-to-one fashion.
Well, the Wings never scored, and almost 10 minutes into the 3rd OT, Jiri Hudler got whistled for a 4-minute double-minor for high sticking Rob Scuderi– this led to Petr Sykora’s game-winning goal– to which one of the announcers (I have no idea who it was, I’m sure you could look it up somewhere) responded with something along the lines of: “That’s gotta be a double-minor. If you get your stick up around the face and draw blood, the referee has to give you four minutes for that.” Really??? Cause I’m still waiting for that 4-minute double-f@#king-minor to be called on Ryan f@#king Malone after he went all Thomas Hewitt on Chris Drury’s left cheek during the second period of Game 5.
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