Greensboro Coliseum, Sec 109 Row SS
I recently began a new job in a new city. I found a hockey fanatic, a Bruins fan, working with me. He wanted to travel to Greensboro for this matchupa and asked me to come along. Another guy joined us for the trip.
This guy was so serious about his teams that he had zero tolerance for anything to the contrary. When we entered the Greensboro Coliseum girls handed us some red pom-poms, which me and the other guy took. The serious guy refused his. Not only that, he walked past us as we were ahead of him. He took both sets of pom-poms from our hands and threw then in a trash can. It was so pitiful it was humorous. So we decided, on a beer run, to purchase Hurricanes jerseys for ourselves. We both put on the red jerseys, walked down to our seats, delivered the beer we bought for the serious guy and sat back next to him. After a first stop he turned to talk to us. When he saw the new red jerseys, he got up, stormed off and sat the rest of the game by himself.
Anson Carter scored on a backhander with 5:15 left in the second overtime as the Boston Bruins defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 last night to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference series.
The Bruins came into the second OT holding a 47-31 lead in shots on goal, and Carter's breakaway goal on Carolina's Arturs Irbe was Boston's 52nd shot.
Joe Thornton and Ray Bourque assisted on Carter's game-winner in the longest game in Carolina franchise history.
Boston has a chance to improve to 21-5 all-time in 26 Stanley Cup series after winning the fifth game with a victory Sunday in Game 6 at the FleetCenter.
If necessary, Game 7 would be played in Greensboro on Tuesday.
Boston had seized the momentum in the best-of-7 series with three goals in a span of 1:52 early in the third period, erasing a 2-0 deficit and quieting the boisterous pom-pom waving sellout crowd at the Greensboro Coliseum.
But Sami Kapanen, back in the lineup after missing Game 4 in Boston with a bruised knee, sent the game into overtime with 1:45 left in regulation, taking a centering pass from Gary Roberts and smashing it past Byron Dafoe.
Ron Francis, also back after missing three games with a sprained ankle, added an assist on the game-tying goal as regulation ended with the teams tangled in a glove-shoving, pushing match that has been typical of the hard-hitting series.
Ray Sheppard scored in his franchise-record fourth straight postseason game late in the second period as Carolina took a 2-0 lead -- its first two-goal lead of the series.
But the Bruins, who had outscored Carolina a combined 6-2 in the third periods of the previous four games, came out aggressively to start the final 20 minutes and the complexion of the game quickly changed.
Bourque, quiet offensively most of the series, scored 34 seconds into the period to begin the scoring barrage, netting his 36th career playoff goal.
Fellow defenseman Darren Van Impe followed with a power-play goal a minute later as Roberts was off for boarding and the noisy crowd grew anxious and quiet.
Less than a half-minute later, P.J. Axelsson converted his first playoff goal of the series off a turnover by Marek Malik and the momentum was Boston's until Kapanen's first goal of the series tied the score at 3-3.
Sheppard's goal from an almost impossible angle to the left of Dafoe with 4:41 left in the second period was Sheppard's fifth of the series -- tying Detroit's Steve Yzerman for the NHL postseason lead -- and ninth in 10 career postseason games against the Bruins.
Carolina scored the first goal for the third straight game in the series.
Bourque failed to clear the puck on a Carolina power play 3:49 into the game and Steve Chiasson made him pay, blasting a high slap slot past a screened Byron Dafoe for a 1-0 lead.
It was the first goal for Chiasson, who missed 46 games because of a shoulder operation, since the season-opener Oct. 10 against Tampa Bay.
This guy was so serious about his teams that he had zero tolerance for anything to the contrary. When we entered the Greensboro Coliseum girls handed us some red pom-poms, which me and the other guy took. The serious guy refused his. Not only that, he walked past us as we were ahead of him. He took both sets of pom-poms from our hands and threw then in a trash can. It was so pitiful it was humorous. So we decided, on a beer run, to purchase Hurricanes jerseys for ourselves. We both put on the red jerseys, walked down to our seats, delivered the beer we bought for the serious guy and sat back next to him. After a first stop he turned to talk to us. When he saw the new red jerseys, he got up, stormed off and sat the rest of the game by himself.
Anson Carter scored on a backhander with 5:15 left in the second overtime as the Boston Bruins defeated the Carolina Hurricanes 4-3 last night to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference series.
The Bruins came into the second OT holding a 47-31 lead in shots on goal, and Carter's breakaway goal on Carolina's Arturs Irbe was Boston's 52nd shot.
Joe Thornton and Ray Bourque assisted on Carter's game-winner in the longest game in Carolina franchise history.
Boston has a chance to improve to 21-5 all-time in 26 Stanley Cup series after winning the fifth game with a victory Sunday in Game 6 at the FleetCenter.
If necessary, Game 7 would be played in Greensboro on Tuesday.
Boston had seized the momentum in the best-of-7 series with three goals in a span of 1:52 early in the third period, erasing a 2-0 deficit and quieting the boisterous pom-pom waving sellout crowd at the Greensboro Coliseum.
But Sami Kapanen, back in the lineup after missing Game 4 in Boston with a bruised knee, sent the game into overtime with 1:45 left in regulation, taking a centering pass from Gary Roberts and smashing it past Byron Dafoe.
Ron Francis, also back after missing three games with a sprained ankle, added an assist on the game-tying goal as regulation ended with the teams tangled in a glove-shoving, pushing match that has been typical of the hard-hitting series.
Ray Sheppard scored in his franchise-record fourth straight postseason game late in the second period as Carolina took a 2-0 lead -- its first two-goal lead of the series.
But the Bruins, who had outscored Carolina a combined 6-2 in the third periods of the previous four games, came out aggressively to start the final 20 minutes and the complexion of the game quickly changed.
Bourque, quiet offensively most of the series, scored 34 seconds into the period to begin the scoring barrage, netting his 36th career playoff goal.
Fellow defenseman Darren Van Impe followed with a power-play goal a minute later as Roberts was off for boarding and the noisy crowd grew anxious and quiet.
Less than a half-minute later, P.J. Axelsson converted his first playoff goal of the series off a turnover by Marek Malik and the momentum was Boston's until Kapanen's first goal of the series tied the score at 3-3.
Sheppard's goal from an almost impossible angle to the left of Dafoe with 4:41 left in the second period was Sheppard's fifth of the series -- tying Detroit's Steve Yzerman for the NHL postseason lead -- and ninth in 10 career postseason games against the Bruins.
Carolina scored the first goal for the third straight game in the series.
Bourque failed to clear the puck on a Carolina power play 3:49 into the game and Steve Chiasson made him pay, blasting a high slap slot past a screened Byron Dafoe for a 1-0 lead.
It was the first goal for Chiasson, who missed 46 games because of a shoulder operation, since the season-opener Oct. 10 against Tampa Bay.
This game finished so late. Coupled that with our 5 hour trip back home and you have me being greated with a fresh delivered newspaper in my driveway when I arrived home, just in time to take into the can and read about the very game I just got home from.
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