Summertime and the living's easy

A couple of things are happening around, but not THAT much. First, I took your suggestions from the other day and put up an ad on the Scott Walker Hockey-reference.com page. Go check it out!

Second, last night was the 500th sellout at Fenway Park. Here's Jason Bay on the day:

"We got the win, but more importantly I got to meet Bobby Orr."

Wait, what?Hell yes. This is awesome. Right before the seventh, Bobby came out of the Green Monster and said hello to Jason Bay. They were apparently supposed to meet before the game, but didn't have time. This is better because we all get to see it. Sox and Dawgs has a video, to boot.

Bobby Orr smiling is one of the finer things in life. Here are some more pictures of that:The only NHL trophy Bobby Orr didn't win twice was rookie of the year.He sure did win 2 Stanley cups, though. Putting Boston in for 3rd-longest draught for cups of an original six team, in front of Toronto (1967) and Chicago (1965).Whatta Guy.

Oh, and tonight is the NHL awards show. Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, and Claude Julien are all in Vegas right now getting ready to maybe win the Vezina (best goalie), Norris (best defenseman - Orr had 8 of these, which still stands as an all-time record), and the Jack Adams Award (best coach), respectively. Good luck to them!

The awards show will be on Versus at 7:30 in the US, CBC at 8:30 in Canada.
GO BRUINS!

Game 4 Recap: Bruins and Red Sox 4, Senators and Rays 2

I tried watching the game last night, but everyone else was like "it's the playoffs, man. c'mon" so I didn't. Both teams won, 4-2, so I'm happy with that. So let's go through this game together.

I'll be honest, I was scared of this game because the Sens were ridiculous at converting the power play going into the game. However, it seems like it all worked out.

First Period:

1 minute in, the man I like to call "The German" shows what a well-engineered and efficient deflection can do:

7 minutes later, this Foligno kid comes by and goes high stick side from the top of the circle:

Second Period:

Nearly five minutes in, and Gerber stops Bergeron


Seconds later, Savard shows us why he wakes up in the morning:


Kessel is a beast


Wheeler takes a penalty that leads to an Alfie goal.


Lucic scores a goal on a rebound off a Ryder shot

Looks like lots of ugly goals. Hopefully, they're learning.

And here are all of the videos that the MLB lets me post from their website about the sox/rays game:

Oh right, the MLB isn't yet at that level. But they want me to download Microsoft's Flash knockoff to watch the video on the official site. Thanks but I've got enough crap on my computer already.

Sox play tonight in Game 7 of the ALCS. Hoooo boy.

Record: 2-1-1
GO BRUINS!

BETTER NEWS!

Looks like Randy Jones will be out 3-4 months now, rather than the previously mentioned "up to two."

Oh, and the Wild continued their dominance of the Bruins last night. Also, the Sox lost because we ran out of pitchers. I fell asleep through most of both.

I'm really happy that Savard started scoring goals, though. Here's a recap, if like me you fell asleep during the game:

Bergeron scored, too, but it was the wrong one.

Oh, and nhl.com has a nice little piece about the Bruins.