Boston fans are very accustomed to Game 7’s. The Bruins themselves have already endured a pair of Game 7’s this postseason.But the Game 7 of a Championship series is different. The stakes are never higher than the moment the players step onto the ice, grass, or parquet floor, knowing that if their team wins, they are the best in the world; But if their team losses, they go home with nothing. Second place means zilch in the world of professional sports.
Just ask the 2009-2010 Boston Celtics. Last year’s NBA Finals went seven games. The Celtics, after holding a 3-2 lead going back to L.A., needed just one more win. Just one. But after the demoralizing loss of Kendrick Perkins to injury in Game 6, the boys in green couldn’t pull it off. That Game 7 was heartbreaking just as a fan, and I can’t fathom how the players must have felt.
Emotions run highest in Game 7’s. This Bruins-Canucks series has already had its fill of intensity and it will inevitably come to a point tomorrow night. All of the biting, all of the talking, and all of the blind-side hitting that has occurred over the series will boil over into this final game.
Looch and his crew will hit hard. Thornton will assume his role as the Enforcer. The sparkplug, Brad Marchand, will continue to play at a level light years ahead of his rookie status. Timmy will be Timmy: an unforgiving brick wall. And Chara will dominate the Sedin Sisters one more time. Neither Thelma nor Louise will know what hit her.
So prepare for this Game 7, Bruins fans, because it’s going to be one hell of a ride. No other team deserves it more.
It’s the Bruins turn to take a spin on the Duckboats.
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