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All Aboard: Keys To Game 5

by IwoCPO on 05/17/08 at 07:03 AM ET
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I don’t even know what to write.  I’m embarrassed that I woke up so stressed today. I know it’s all part of the deal, the price we pay for having a team this close, but man. 

It’s bad today.  It’s frigging bad.  Stupid damn Free Press.  Anyone see their “exlusive pictures from Wings practice” gallery this morning?  Check this out.

The Detroit Red Wings right winger Dan Cleary (#11) practices on goalie Chris Osgood (#30) for game six of the Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Stars at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on Friday, May 16, 2008.

You idiots. Don’t you see what you’ve done?  Don’t you?  Game six?  Are you kidding me?  Who makes mistakes like that? Who doesn’t see the consequences of mistakes like that? 

I’m onboard bitches. All the way. 

Yes, there are keys.  Many, many keys.  Here’s one.  I’m going with a Seger Live Blog today.  I’ll give you a hint.  It’ll be from Night Moves.  Love that song. That’s MY song.  You can guess the line if you want but I’m not giving it away early. 

I’ve also decided to kick the family out of the house.  I can’t have all these people running around, doing stuff.  I won’t allow it.  No chatter, no girly giggles.  Just me and the game and the live blog.  Live from The Hasek.

And I’m not going to read the stories. I saw the headlines at the Anti-digger’s, in the News, the Freep.  I’m not going to read the stuff about us needing more secondary scoring, or about the power play lagging.  No.  I know that stuff.  I don’t need the reminders.

I have to find something useful to do with my life the next six hours.  If I sit here and stress there’s a good chance I’ll be fetal by 1330. 

I’m gonna try and not think about the consequences of a Game 5 loss.  Nothing but positive thoughts.  I imagine a rocking JLA, a Campbell Cup waiting to be ignored.  I see Hank and Rafalski and Cleary, all celebrating first period goals.  I sense collective sighs of relief.  I can picture a blowout and it warms me. 

I see a Dallas shot total that doesn’t reach twenty because the Wings have been thinking of nothing else but shutting that team down the last three days. 

I don’t think about the fact that an extra day off, courtesy of the worst commissioner in the history of commissioners, has given Dallas’ boys an extra day to get healthy.  And I really don’t think about the fact that we still don’t have a diagnosis on Franzen. 

My wife says the Wings will come out flying today, that it will be a blowout, an 8-2, or 7-0 thing…like elimination games of recent and distant pasts.  I’m glad she thinks that way, too bad she’s been banished from the house.

I’m picturing something pleasant right now. I’m picturing some other team having to withstand “ten minutes of Hell.”  I see the Wings blasting away right off the drop, determined to end this, convinced that it ends today in Detroit. And finishing the job. 

Here’s what I refuse to see.  I won’t allow myself to imagine a close game or for fu**‘s sake….OT.  No.

I’m aware of my shortcomings.  They’re pointed out to me from time to time.  I know I’m pretty close to losing it altogether.  I know that.  I’m going to try and keep it together. 

How the Hell can I be so stressed with a 3-1 lead? It’s absolutely ridiculous.  But, just like the kids say, it’s how I roll. 

And it doesn’t help one bit that I woke last night to the sound of thunder.  That doesn’t help a bit.

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