Game 7 Prediction: Conflict-Avoidance Edition
By Richard Eriksson on April 23, 2007 - 3:54pm
I can say with 100% confidence that one of either the Dallas Stars or the Vancouver Canucks will move on to the second round of the 2007 NHL playoffs. It's a coin toss, as Dave put it on Saturday's Canucks Outsider Live, but Vancouverites win both ways: if the local hockey team moves on, we dance on the streets; if they lose, then we enter True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time, that is, the gain of two and a half hours every two days of sunlight where we would normally be watching the game. I usually try to be downtown during the game in which it's possible for the Canucks to move on, but never a Game 7. Since it's essentially a 50-50 chance as it has been all series, I can't bear to watch among the possibly dejected (and almost certainly inebriated) fans. Yet I cannot look away: I'll be watching, but at the same time I'll get some long-needed ironing done.
