What if Jaroslav Halak could play the puck properly?
For one, it would alleviate the stress on the D instead of having to come back deep every time (not that they're capable of accepting a pass from Price, mind). But when it mattered the most, hesitating to come out and fanning on it then colliding into Hamr and helplessly watching Mike Richards basically will it into a cold and lonely empty net... What if.
What if Jacques Martin weren't a stubborn old goat?
Sergei Kostitsyn would be brimming with confidence as he blasts accurate one-timers from the point on the powerplay. But you never knew that eh Coach? Funny how everyone else, including a rookie AHL coach, did. And as the powerplay went 1-for-a-zillion, and Bergeron was completely and utterly useless/overused, well... What if.
What if our team weren't so short? Last I looked Briere, Giroux, and Richards weren't over 6ft either.
There could be hundreds of "what ifs". What if this great run didn't come to such a smack in the face end? Of course there's plenty of talk of pride in how this team went through the playoffs. Never discount the pride, ever. But for a team like this, the opportunity was there for the taking. A team like this can only depend on belief, hard work, and what people call a convenient convergence of events. The perfect formula. Together with one goal in mind: the Cup. It's the reason why Mike Cammalleri never jumps into the glass whenever he scores. A subtle simple fist pump will suffice until he finds himself raising Lord Stanley over his head. While Mike Richards ran off like the goblin theif with the Prince of Wales, happier than a kid in a candy store, I think Cammy would make like Jonathan Toews and the epic look-away from the Clarence S, almost as if it would turn him to stone. (Hey I'd be happy to hold one of those myself, but some athletes are a strange animal). For Scott Gomez, any season which ends without a Stanley Cup is a bad season.
What if everyone had the spirit and determination of Brian Gionta?
The biggest bummer now? There won't be much on TV.
Is it October yet?
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