Savard ready for revenge?

Not that I'm one to jump the gun, especially after what the Canadiens did to the Capitals when down 3-1 in the first round series, but with the Bruins beating the Flyers tonight to go up 3-0 in their series, the East Final is setting up for a Bruins-Penguins matchup.

Mario Lemieux's first career goal (seen above) came against the Bruins. The Penguins beat the Bruins in the '91 and '92 Wales Final (with Lemieux embarrassing Ray Bourque, as he did in the above video, and Ulf Samuelsson essentially ruining Cam Neely's career in the process). And this year, there was this:



Savard is back for Boston and Cooke is still out there taking cheapshots for Pittsburgh. This one could be a doozy. Let's hope Jaroslav Halak doesn't ruin it for everyone.

Painful

You know who provided the soundtrack the 1980s NBA golden age? Dick Stockton. The guy was the lead play-by-play guy for CBS, calling all three of the Magic-Bird NBA Finals.

Now TNT uses him in the playoffs to call games that Marv Albert and Kevin Harlan are too big to call and its just painful. He's teaming with Mike Fratello on tonight's Lakers-Jazz game and it's just painful. I feel really bad for the Tsar. He spends all regular season working with Marv, then has to team with a guy who is about 10 levels past washed up. I can't, for the life of me, understand how Stockton is still doing big-time games on national television, in any sport--and, somehow, he gets to call three major sports for national audiences.

And by the way, how is it that the Lakers, the glamour team of the NBA and the league's defending champs, get Stockton and not either Marv or Harlan? If I'm Jerry Buss, I'm calling David Stern and telling him this is unacceptable.