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Chicago Blackhawks: 7th Conference Finals berth
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“Now ya see, the thing about the hockey game—except it wasn’t the hockey game, it was the baseball game with the hockey people hittin’ the pucks with the sticks but instead it was the bats, and the bats were goin’ ka-POW! and the balls were flyin’ all over the place!
And the Chicago Blackhawks, they come out in the first inning and they say, ‘zip zop bibbity bop—five runs, thank you very much!’ And Colorado, they’re sittin’ there sayin’, ‘but…but…but we got Cale Makar hittin’ the three home runs!’ And Chicago says, ‘HA-HA! We got Jack Klompus hittin’ two of his own, and Nick Foligno hittin’ two, and Bedard, and Kim, and Gonzalez—everybody hittin’ the long ball, the big ball, the kablooey ball!’
So the scoreboard, by the end, is lookin’ like somebody spilled Jell-O all over the numbers, because it’s nineteen to eight, and you can’t even keep up with who’s on first or who’s on third, because they’re all crossin’ home plate like the kids runnin’ around the house when momma says the puddin’ is ready.
Now the Avalanche, they got their homers, they got the zip and the zap, but the problem is, every time they score two, the Blackhawks score four, and then two more, and then another one, and then another KA-POW right over the fence.
And so the Blackhawks, they win the whole series, four games to one, and Mr. Klompus, he gets the MVP, and he says, ‘I ain’t worried about the MVP, I just want to go play the next round.’ And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of attitude that gets you a big ol’ bowl of puddin’ in the Conference Finals.”
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