Delayed Blogging

There's been no new post today due to the seventh game of the Stanley Cup. As I wrote the other day, I was nominally rooting for the Oilers, who had come back from a 3-1 deficit, but except for a few minutes tonight, they were thoroughly outplayed by the Carolina Hurricanes, the new Stanley Cup champions. At one point, the Hurricanes had two men in the penalty box, which gave the Oilers a 5-3 advantage on the ice. Power plays don't get much more overpowering than that. So what did they do? Did the five Oilers use their numbers to overwhelm the hapless Hurricanes? No, they passed the puck around as if they were drilling in practice or, worse still, trying to kill their own penalty. When they couldn't score on a 5-3, I realized that they simply didn't deserve to win. Fittingly, they didn't. So the Stanley Cup is exiled to Raleigh, North Carolina, where there are probably no more than about a dozen kids who have hockey sticks to play street hockey. Well, after two years in Tampa Bay, at least it's moving north. Maybe next year it'll actually make it to somewhere where it will see some snow in the winter (provided the NHL doesn't lock out its players again). In the meantime, I'll have a real post up in a few minutes.