CHICAGO — Tyler Seguin is 21 years old. He can skate all night and stay up late and bounce back the next day. He might be the poster boy for this closing time, 2013 Stanley Cup Final.Nothing says hip & modern like quoting lyrics that are four decades old!
Don’t make any plans for Tuesday or Thursday mornings this week. The Bruins and Blackhawks are coming to Boston and can’t settle things in three regulation periods of hockey.
Powered by Seguin’s best game of the playoffs, the B’s beat the Hawks, 2-1, in overtime late Saturday on a wrist shot from the left circle by Daniel Paille after a pinpoint cross-ice feed from Seguin.
Taking care of business and working overtime. That is the theme song of this Cup Final. And the later it goes, the better Seguin gets. He is Boston’s midnight rambler.
When you're doing a column on Tyler Seguin and the Bruins, you just have to mention other local sports teams:
Sometimes we give up too early on a player. Remember Chauncey Billups? Celtics coach Rick Pitino grabbed him with the third pick in the entire draft (small consolation for not getting Tim Duncan), then traded Billups three-quarters of the way through his first season.And then there's this:
Sometimes we wait too long on a player. Remember Laurence Maroney? The Patriots used their first-round pick on the running back from Minnesota and waited four years before dumping him. Bill Belchick’s patience with Maroney reminded me of Earl Weaver’s explanation for sticking with aging ace Mike Cuellar. Weaver said, “I gave Cuellar more chances than my first wife.’’
He has not been “The Next One.’’ We don’t know exactly what he is. We’re not even certain if he’s a center or a winger.Might want to confirm that he's a center with one of your colleagues, Shank...
Shank conveniently forgot that one of Maroney's four years was the lost year of 2008 when he was put on injured reserve before the Monday Night Massacre of the Broncos. Shank's effort to indict Belichick by citing Maroney would work better if Belichick had insisted on holding onto him a lot longer than he did.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Shank.
This is lazy writing at its laziest.
ReplyDeleteEarl Weaver made that same comment about every veteran he cut. And what in the hell is an Earl Weaver reference doing in a column about hockey?