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Wow, what a performance by Islander505 and Black N Gold, who went at it brilliantly about a post regarding the Rangers-Penguins series.
As we eagerly await Game 5 - yes, a game we can actually SEE because it's on a television network (NBC) we actually GET - here are two of our favorite commenters going at it:
Islander505:
An Islander fan says something nice about the Rangers and some Black and Gold, Iron City swilling Steelhead Speckled Lout gets top billing? (No offense B and G- but I love a great metaphor)
First 15 minutes of Game 5 may very well decide the series.
Pens will hit the ice with a hellstorm of fury.
It will be the ultimate test to see whether Henrik is the championship caliber goalie that the Ranger fans have hoped for.
IF the Rangers can withstand the onslaught, and Lundquist can steal this game from the Pens....it's a brand new series.
At that point it's back to MSG for Game 6 where the young Pens run into the wrath of a Garden crowd chanting "1975" or "33 years" ("33 years" sounds better).
IF it comes back to MSG for game 6 it is paramount for the NY Press (are ya readin me Zip and Staple?) to MAKE NO MENTION of any references to "Pens choke again 33 years later?" stories until AFTER Game 6.
Let the Garden crowd get that thing started.
HEARING it, before READING is far more effective on the players.
And then ANYTHING can happen in a game 7.
Just my opinion and blueprint from 2 time zones away.
(Not that I want the Rangers to win....but I DO love fun hockey, and whenever the Rangers do drop out, I am not looking forward to all the Ranger Ice Worms spewing their venom on Logan's blog).
Black N Gold:
First, it's hard to follow such stellar posts by Islander505.. great work !
Secondly, works been a $#^%. Right after the game ended last night the roof caved in and I've been digging out of the hole all day.
As for 1975. I remember that clearly. On April 26 the Pens lost at home to the Islelanders (The 1942 Red Wings lost their series against the Maple Leafs on the road).
Four days later, on April 30th the last Marine was airlifted off the US Embassy roof in Saigon as South Vietnam fell.
Two Days after that, I graduated High School and entered the USAF.
Oh yeah, it was a great week for me. :-)
Not for nothing but that 1975 Penguins team didn't have near the talent that the current team does.
Ron Schock, Syl Apps, and Jean Pronovost were their top producers and Gary Inness was in goal.
Not exactly, Crosby, Malkin, Hossa and Fluerry.
If you'd have told me before the series began that the Pens would be headed into game five, on home ice, up 3-1, I'd have taken it.
Now, The Pens have to win one of the their next three, I think this crew can handle that against the Rangers.
(Editor's note: Brilliant, gentlemen.)
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YES.....Top Billing.
And as far as B+G's soulful recantation about something far less than his "Best Week Ever", well, my friend.....such is the story already replayed in Dickens Tale of Two Cities.
While you were playing the role Charles Darnay in late April of 1975 in Pittsburgh, I gladly accepted the part of Sydney Carton in NYC.
While my Isles were sending your Pen's into the slagpile of Hockey History, while Saigon fell, and you opted to do "a far, far better thing..., than I have ever done", I was jubilantly enjoying "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
I was finishing my sophomore year at Manhattan College, highlighted by nightly in room pinnochle tournaments (complete with kegs and bongs-in between reruns of Star Trek, of course), late night dashes on the Number 1 train downtown to Pace University to sequester with an aspiring nurse while overlooking City Hall, finding class admit cards 3 weeks into the semester, and 50 cent beer nights at the Greenleaf and/or the Pinewood at 242nd St. and Broadway.
Damn.... I thought I could come up with a "it was the worst of times".....but after reliving that again in the last few minutes....how could anything have been bad in 1975?
Oh, that's right....people did live in Pittsburgh back then
;)
(P.S. I was living in CLEVELAND 2 years later).
BTW B+G, as far as that "roof caving in" last night.....
You folks in Steel City really need to get away from that Kaiser Aluminum Domed Quonset Hut Architecture and start using wood frames. Far more durable.
(Okay, ENOUGH!!! I'm going home now ...it's Friday....there's a beer calling my name).