Detroit is up 2-0 over the Pittsburgh Penguins. The series is now going back to Pittsburgh. I do hope that Pittsburgh can pull out at least one of the games so that the series goes longer than a sweep. Yes, I want Detroit to win. I also want the hockey to go on for as long as it can. 
I want to see Detroit win the Stanley Cup in Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena – where it belongs.
Last night during the game one of my non-hockey loving friends came over during the last 9 minutes of the game. Detroit scored their third goal and times were good. Then, Pittsburgh started to get frustrated and hit Franzen (who just came back from a concussion) in the jaw. I was fit to be tied and would have yelled louder at the tv had I not had a sore throat. What’s my friend say? “That’s why I don’t like hockey. There’s too much violence in it.” Shut up and leave. That’s what I say.
This guy has never even watched, nor been to, an entire hockey game. He only knows hockey for the fighting he has seen from news clips (which the general media promotes). So, when Pittsburgh simply started being stupid and both benches ended up throwing their gloves down (which was a cool scene to see, by the way ), this fueled his belief.
I can’t stand when people who do not understand the skill involved in the sport of hockey make judgement calls. That’s just ignorance.
Leave me alone to enjoy my hockey while yelling “DAAAOHHHH!”, “smash that bum!” and singing along to The Hockey Song, thank you.
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