Welcome to True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time
By Richard Eriksson on May 4, 2007 - 12:46am
I only heard about it on the radio, waiting for the SeaBus to come in, but a part of me doesn't want to see The Goal. The part that doesn't to want to believe that any professional hockey goalie, much less Roberto "MVP" Luongo, can make a mental mistake like that, tired or not. The part of me that doesn't want to believe the season's over. The local junior team, the Vancouver Giants, are in the playoffs too, but I don't know the name of any of the players. (Granted, a Giants game is decent hockey at a decent price, and would watch at the old Pacific Colosseum game again sometime.) Nevermind a war without end: in Canada, with the World Championships, Memorial Cup, and talk about the Olympics going to heat up in a couple of years, we're a country engaging in hockey with no end. Says the guy who just started playing floorball.
Now we fans are cured of our 3-hour long fits of belief suspension, and can finally get to the serious business of berating the weather for teasing us (or, like this morning, tricking us). Game 7 might have happened during a book reading I want to attend, and local grumps can finally thank their goodnesses. Welcome to True Vancouver Daylight Savings Time.
Most of the night, Luongo WAS the Vancouver Canucks, until
he got tired and glanced away at the wrong moment. Now all
they need to do is put together a team that's worthy of a
goalie like Luongo. And what's with our guys making passes
directly onto the opposition's sticks? Not once, not twice,
but several times. Whose side are they on anyway ? That was
a very strange game.
... and a big pile of Canucks memorabilia to clean up from the Alive for the Playoffs. Really disheartening to end the season on a lackluster note. Gotta look for positives - and there were plenty - but right now, the feeling is just lame. But World Championships in Moscow, Vancouver Giants and Manitoba Moose in playoff runs and tasty beers at Nat Bailey for starters will help cure the anguish a little bit.
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