Thursday, May 20, 2004

Whew!

I'm afraid I may be starting to believe in these guys.

It's about half-an-hour or so since the end of Game 6. Keith Primeau was a monster once again, scoring his second goal of the game with just 1:49 left to send the game into overtime. With time dwindling on the first overtime period, Primeau's line -- responsible for 4 of the Flyers' 5 goals -- got to it once again. A shot by Primeau bounced right to Jeremy Roenick. His rebound shot bounces straight to Simon Gagne. Gagne then bounced the puck off Lightning goalie Nikolai Khabibulin and into the back of the net to send this series to the full 7 games.

Honestly, I thought the Flyers were going to fold after their failed comeback in Game 5. And, for awhile, it looked like they would. Leading 2-1 at the end of the first period, they coughed up the lead in the second period, and went into the third trailing 4-3. The Lightning came out trying to play defense -- which is not their forte -- in the third to shut the Flyers down. This had the opposite effect from what they intended. The Flyers outshot the Lightning 17-5 in the third period, and again 10-5 in the overtime.

All of this leads us to Game 7. It will be Saturday night at 7:00 in Tampa. Now my question becomes, what do I do? See, I have two tickets to Saturday night's Phillies game. On the other hand, there's a Game 7 to watch. Anyone?

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