Osler's Razor

The Red Wings won the Stanley Cup, and the winning goal last night was scored when Penguins' goalie Jean-Marc Fleury accidentally sat on the puck, and it squirted out from under his goalie pants and into the net. No, I'm not making that up. Basically, it was a buttpuck, and a very pain painful one for Pittsburg.

It was a great series, and it drew me back in to the sport. I played hockey for some 28 years one way or another, from pick-up games on the lake to championship teams with a future NHL all-star. I wasn't a great player myself (my best skill was killing penalties), but I did love to play. You don't sit around in the locker room and talk about this, but the skating is just elegant-- a magical balance of strength and balance and speed that makes doing it well an act of joy. Plus, you get to hit people.