Who the hell was on defense for SJ? They just stood back and watched Iginla get the puck and shoot. All they need to do was step up and/or poke it away, but they just backed up.
I will root for the Flyers if necessary. I don't care. I'm that devastated. I didn't think the emotion would get to me so much, and I respected the Flames for their success, but now I just plain resent the hell out of them. Safe to say that my path to possibly being a Flames fan someday was just permanently ended.
Yeah, but guys, they beat the SHARKS!!! I don't think it would have mattered if the Flames were composed of all her favourite players (and there are a few of them she already "liked"), because they beat out one of her favourite teams, they are now lower than pond-scum and must be rooted against at all costs.
Yes, the apocalypse has come, Renee has said flat out that if the Flyers make it through to the SCF, she will be hoping like mad that the Flyers win.
I'm not going to apologize for being devastated minutes after my team got eliminated in the conference final.
The next morning, I don't even care about the rest of the playoffs anymore. I'm not rooting for or against anyone. I just probably won't watch. It'll be like Carolina/Detroit. All the people who say that you can root for laundry have to realize that it also goes the other way...you can like players on other teams, but when they take out the ones you've been loyal to for way longer, the loyalty takes precedence and the anger takes over against the other guys. I've liked Craig Conroy for six months, and Mike Ricci and Todd Harvey for three years. I said before that I'd root for the Flames until they met my Sharks, and I did. I also said I wouldn't be totally heartbroken if they won because they've fought hard, but you know what? Once the Sharks were down 2 games to nothing, I realized that I couldn't feel that way. One of things that people supposedly like about me is my undying loyalty, and it ain't any different here. I respect the Flames' effort, but I also resent them for knocking out my team.
I'm not saying the Flames didn't fight hard, and they're not a lovely Cinderella story, and all that warm and fuzzy stuff that makes for articles that make people buy newspapers. Since they're Chris's team, let 'em win the whole thing. Then at least he'll be happy. This divided house thing sucks. It's cute when you're walking around town together in opposing jerseys after each team has two wins, but in the end, one of you can't be completely happy because it's at the expense of the other. For what it's worth, he would have taken it a lot better than I am, and he's the younger one. Me, I've always been a very emotional person, and hockey is my passion.
The impending lockout is just adding to my feeling upset, because I don't even know if they'll be the same team when I finally see them again. It's one thing to lose in the final round and feel like you at least got a few extra games than fans of other teams, but it's another when you don't even know when you'll see them again. Give me a definite start date of the first week of October, and the usual possibilities with off-season moves, and I'd probably be taking this better than I am. I just take the Devils success for granted, since they've performed so well since I started following them. I didn't even worry too much when they went out in the first round this year. The Caps....I'm used to them either missing out or going out early. With this, I actually got my hopes up, and I think that's what did me in.
This message has been edited by ReneeCapsFan on May 20, 2004 10:01 AM
*slight grin comes through the big frown* I saw Chris Simon in the produce section of the Sunnyside Safeway on Tuesday afternoon. I looked up from bagging kiwi fruits and there he was, complete with the weird-lookin' mohawk. We smiled politely at one another and said hello, but there was a mischevious part of me that wanted to say something like, "goon it up with one more Shark, and I'll try to kick your ass all the way back to the Caps!"
Seriously, I was considering talking to him about how he likes it in Calgary (meaning the city, not so much being a Flame), but nope, no befriending Flames players when the Sharks were in jeopardy. Even Chris Simon. I must be serious if I'd walk away from Big Si, eh? No sentimental favorites on Tuesday afternoon...
