First up, our Bruins. Our Bruins had a 2-0 over the Philadelphia Flyers the last time I posted, and played Game 3 on May 4. I am currently living in Virginia at college so I do not Versus, the channel the Bruins play on. I use a website to watch all Boston games and by the time I got Game 3 up it was 2-0. Krejci and Chara scored in the first 63 seconds. It was Krejci's fifth goal and Chara's first of the playoffs. After that it was all Bruins all the time. Thomas was lights out just like always, giving up just one goal to Andrej Meszaros late in the second, but that was not until after Paille scored his first of the playoffs and Horton scored his fifth. Chara added a fifth goal late into the third. Thomas saved 37 of 38 shots to pile more stats onto his Conn Smythe resume. Our Bruins now had a 3 games to none lead, just like last year when the Flyers game back to beat us in seven at home. The Bruins did not want to let that happen again. Game four was played on May 6. It was back and forth all throughout the first until Lucic scored with 8 minutes left. Lucic was our leading scorer in the regular season with 30 goals and this was his first of the playoffs, it was also his first at home in over 20 games. The second period was pretty sloppy by both teams, and the Flyers had the lone goal by Kris Versteeg with six and a half minutes left. Then Boychuk scored two minutes into the third and it was all Bruins, it looked like the Bruins against a practice squad, they were just running over the Flyers. Lucic added another goal with 5 minutes left and then, with the goalie pulled, Marchand added another with just under two minutes left. Then coach Claue Julien put out our fourth line of Daniel Paille, Shawn Thornton, and Greg Campbell for the last minute and change trying to get fan favorite Thornton his second career playoff goal. Thornton just missed but got the assist on Paille's second goal of the playoffs. Our Bruins won 5-1 and made sure, quickly, that history from last year would not repeat itself. In the words of Jack Edwards, "Oh, how sweep it is! Goodbye Flyers." Our Bruins will take on the Tampa Bay Lightning, who also swept the Washington Capitals, in the Eastern Conference finals starting on the 14th.
Next up, the Celtics. The Celtics played game 2 against the Miami Heat May 3rd in Miami. It was just like game 1 where both teams swapped leads and were close mostly the whole time. Our aging Celtics could not keep up with the Heat, especially LeBron who had 35 points and Wade who had 28 points. Rondo was the only Celtic who had 20 points. The Heat handled the Celtics late and won 102-91. The series shifted to Boston for game 3 and it was about time we had a home game. The Celtics were down by two at the half, but ran away with the game in the third, outscoring the Heat by 13 points. A very scary moment happened when Rondo and Dwayne Wade got tangled with about seven minutes left and fell awkwardly and dislocated his elbow. Rondo came back for the fourth and played literally with one arm. He caught the ball, passed the ball, and shot the ball all only with his right hand. At one point he stole the ball with his left hand as the whole Garden gasped for air. The Celtics held LeBron to 15 points and Chris Bosh to only 6 points as they went on to win 97-81. Game four was last night and the first half, the Celtics were putting on a clinic. They overwhelmed the Heat and looked as if they were going to tie the series at two games a piece. They kept their momentum through the third, but lost it the fourth as they only scored 13 points and they were tied with the Heat with 19 seconds remaining and one last chance to take the lead. Coach Doc Rivers, who is a genius at drawing up game winning plays, decided to get Pierce the ball and use Garnett to screen Ray Allen's defender so Ray could get open for the game winning shot. Ray and KG and their respective defenders just ran into each other constantly and Pierce was waiting for Ray to be open, but ran out of time and had to go left and throw up a prayer over LeBron, of course it did not go in. It was probably the ugliest play I have ever seen and clearly cost us a chance at the win. Watch what happened, but skip to 3:52. The game went to overtime and the Celtics were outplayed and outscored 12-4 as the Heat took a three games to none lead. The series goes back to Miami for game 5 on Wednesday.
Finally, the Red Sox. Our Sox, clearly, were not in the playoffs, but did have seven home games in the last seven days. They went 4-3 against the Angels and Twins, winning their last three straight against the Twins. Luckily, we did not have to face the Twins' ace Francisco Liriano who threw a no hitter, the first this year. The Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander also threw a no hitter this past week, the second of his career. Our Sox always play exciting games, especially at home, and this past week was full of them. None were more exciting than last night's game that went into the 11th inning. Jed Lowrie took a 5 pitch walk in the 11th and Jose Iglesias, who made his debut in the field the game before, pinch ran as Carl Crawford stepped up to the plate. Crawford who is .211 had a walk-off on May 1st and had another oppotunity again tonight. Iglesias took off for second as Crawford drove the ball to deep left, it went off the Green Monster and Iglesias scored from first. Crawford jumped in excitement just after he reached second base and then was greeted by his teammates congratulating him. Our Red Sox finished their home stand with a 2-1 victory in the 11th.It was definitely one hell of a week, and expect this next week to be just as good. Our Celtics face the Heast tomorrow, our Sox play the Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday and Wednesday then the extremely hated New York Yankees this weekend. Our Bruins start their series against the Lightning on the 14th. I would suggest watching game 1 of that series, as the Bruins will be without Patrice Bergeron and will be using rookie Tyler Seguin instead. Check back soon for the Lightning series preview.
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