(this is about hockey)
so i was watching the news at noon today, on both radio-can and TVA. they spoke of the first day of hostilities in the playoffs, where pittsburg beat philly, new jersey beat the canes, and the canucks beat the blues. the SRC focused on the "rivalry" aspect, featuring pilly vs pittsburg, since the habs will be facing the bruins in the first round and they have a storied and historic rivalry (which has, one could point out, mostly been in favour of montreal, who has won something like 23 out of 31 series). TVA focused on the only canadian team who played yesterday, the canucks.
what i am saying is they both failed to talk about the most important game of the night! the rangers (7th place in the east) beat the caps (2nd place), who were at home! this is a huge upset, all right? they hardly even mentioned it. idiots!

i can't tell whether this is just plain bad journalism or obliviousness or what. maybe they don't know enough about hockey? i just don't unnerstand what they were thinking!

anyway, tonight will be the first game of the montreal-boston series. boston finished first so they have home-ice advantage. i hope the habs are up to it, and can repeat the rangers' upset of last night. there are hints in the press that laraque and gainey have some kind of secret plan to fuck with the bruins' minds. part of it was not playing him last week versus the selfsame bruins. i hope it pans out.
they did the same kind of thing by not telling anyone that schneider was NOT, in fact, out for the season with an injury, and brought him back into the alignment for that last game against the bruins, as a ... special surprise. it worked, i guess, since we got the point we needed from that game.

i am really anxious to see how that first game unfolds.