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by Paul on 05/28/07 at 07:33 AM ET
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from the Vancouver Province,
You can go a mile in any direction of the Honda Center—the Ducks’ home rink—and you’re hard-pressed to find any evidence of the Stanley Cup final.
You can’t go five feet in Ottawa without being reminded the Senators are in that same final.
So it’s a different experience—as different as Queen Elizabeth and Queen Latifah—which might explain why Ducks GM Brian Burke was strangely subdued on Sunday. The table was set for an epic Burke rant and, under different circumstances, he would have obliged the assembled media by howling about the forces conspiring against his team and the lack of respect being shown the Ducks.
But this time, he didn’t have to because just about everyone in the hockey world is doing it for him.
“It’s a Canada-U.S. thing,” Burke said. “A lot of the Canadian media are going to pick the Canadian team. “That’s fine. We’re content to be the underdog in this.”
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Burke’s trying to make his team the underdog, yet most of the predictions I’ve seen in the Canadian media are almost evenly split between the two clubs.
There’s no underdog in this series, they’re pretty evenly matched.
Whoever falls behind, say, 2-0 or 3-0, 3-1 or 3-2 will be considered the underdog.
Posted by Spector from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 05/28/07 at 11:30 AM ET
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Having been to the Honda Center, there isn’t much going on around there for either direction for a mile because the area houses the arena and the baseball stadium. With the series yet to start and the Angels on the road, he’s right no many folks hanging around.
Another cheap shot from the MSM God these guys have a vendetta
Posted by Bruha on 05/28/07 at 09:20 AM ET