The city of champions minus the Celtics just keeps churning with the Red Sox and Tom Brady’s Patriots already holding championship trophies in their respective sports.
On Memorial Day evening in Boston the Bruins came back from a sluggish start and a 2-0 deficit to win Game 1 of the finals with an eventual 4-2 win over the surprising St. Louis Blues.
Game 2 will be in Boston as the Bruins attempt to take a 2-0 series lead in quest of a franchise seventh Stanley Cup championship. The Bruins last Cup came in 2011 and remarkably if the Bruins win three more games against a St. Louis team which had an NHL worst record on January 3rd it will mark the city of Boston holding three of the four major league sports crowns simultaneously.
This is not a marquee matchup. Nobody saw St. Louis back in the winter emerging as a Cup contender, yet they have a decent roster which jelled under Craig Berube after he became interim head coach.
Both teams are physical old school teams which generate scoring opportunities off the physicality of their forecheck.
With Boston I would think they’ll score goals from all four lines and will need goalie Tuukka Rask to continue his solid run of play in these playoffs.
If I had to handicap the series…I’d say Boston in five or six games.
In the NBA Finals…I’ll go with the Warriors in either five or six games. I actually hope Durant doesn’t play so we can see Kawhi guard Klay Thompson instead of Kevin Durant. Bottomline…even without Durant the Warriors have three all-stars and a former Finals MVP in Andre Iguodala.