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Spector: No Emotion In Dive/Wing Series
by IwoCPO on 04/28/08 at 06:48 PM ET
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Courtesy of Lyle Richardson at Fox Sports,
But in the six-year interim since these two teams last met in the postseason, the emotions have largely evaporated. Many of the rivalry’s previous participants are either playing elsewhere or retired. A player like Lemieux, whose ramming of Wings forward Kris Draper head-first into the boards during the 1996 playoffs was the rivalry’s true flash-point, is nowhere to be found.
Unless the Avalanche can battle back and establish some sort of emotional edge, this current series will go down as perhaps the least memorable of this year’s playoffs and in the once-heated history between these two teams.
“Least memorable” of this year’s playoffs? Five goals in two games for Johan Franzen is forgettable. Chris Osgood’s exceptional play and Three/Four’s disaster of a beginning to this series is forgettable? Because it’s been clean, it’s not memorable?
Look, I get the point and I like Lyle. But he’s sounding dangerously Cherry-like. The Wings have looked brilliant for 4.5 of the 6 periods this series. Better than anyone else still in it, including Pittsburgh or Dallas.
Pavel Datsyuk and Hank Zetterberg are not memorable, the move Hank put on Sakic was there, then gone…blink of an eye, eh?
No series, maybe ever, can rival what these two had for six years. But it’s done, at least between the two teams in terms of the hate and the animosity.
Between the fans? There’s your story Lyle…
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