steve kwan user experience designer

Tampa Boo

(June 7th, 2004)

Well, I'm used to having my hopes shattered, but usually it's by a woman and not a gang of thirty hairy toothless men.

For those of you who haven't been following sports, I'm not talking about an Iraqi prison torture incident. I'm talking about the Tamba Bay Lightning beating the Calgary Flames for the Stanley Cup in game seven. How could this happen? Calgary was doing so well at first, but they lost in game six and proceeded to get trounced in game seven. They must've been drinking lots of suck juice tonight! Tampa took them to school. The Tampa Bay Lightning woke them up in the morning, had them brush their teeth, made them breakfast, packed their lunches, got in the car and took them to school.

This was supposed to be a sure thing for Calgary! They're a Canadian team who'd beaten every other division champion (except Tampa). They hadn't been in the playoffs for years, and this was a young team, so it had every making of a sappy hockey story. This was supposed to be Canada's night, but somehow, Calgary was beaten by a team from Florida. What do they know about hockey in Florida? It's Florida. They grow oranges there. It's a retirement state. Calgary, on the other hand, is a frozen province. It's so cold in Calgary that even your toque needs to wear a toque. And yet, the Flames still managed to lose this one.

It was bad enough that Calgary beat the Vancouver Canucks (who are my local team, obviously), but at least I could comfort myself knowing that it was a Canadian team that would go on, and would likely win the cup. But I was let down again. Oh well, next year is another year, and maybe we'll win this time. Maybe if we got rid of Bertuzzi...