If the Canadiens Make the Playoffs
March 22, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
It isn’t the 100th anniversary expected next rising chapter in a team’s rise to greatness.
Montreal can still make it out of the East. Even by playing the inconsistent, simultaneously desperate and indifferent brand they play. All the way out of the East. To the Stanley Cup Final. It won’t be inevitable. No juggernaut “thoom!”. No everybody knew it would happen.
But should they win it all, the Stanley Cup Final, I mean (and I know some of you are sniggering), it won’t be a proudly expected gala outcome. It won’t be a Tyson Tour with no losses and the litter of tomato cans. It’ll be a Buster Douglas, Michael Spinks victory for the non-deserving (golds and gold tooth notwithstanding). Something nobody rightly expected.
It wouldn’t be the shaped cream chrome of the Detroit Red Wings nor the city-supported rolling barrel that is the Calgary Flames. Both teams would deserve the title of true champion.
The only reason I dare to forward this supposition is because the Canadiens continue to have the best talent in the East and in some cases, (see Carolina Hurricanes 2006), a hot goalie and a rocket’s thrust can be enough. Carolina is a poor example, probably as that team finished third in the NHL regular season that year.
And in Montreal, the goaltenders have two men who could work some net magic.
But first this team needs to make the playoffs.
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