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Heart says Stanley will sing the Blues

The long-and-winding road has started – you know the Stanley Cup playoffs. The playoffs go on longer than a Grateful Dead concert, they should end sometime in June, after the Dawgs have played a few weeks of ball.

The long-and-winding road has started – you know the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The playoffs go on longer than a Grateful Dead concert, they should end sometime in June, after the Dawgs have played a few weeks of ball.

Undaunted, I am in a playoff bracket with fellow reporter Remy Greer as to who will win the Cup. Comparing his knowledge of hockey with mine is like comparing the math skills of Stephen Hawking and Ronnie Hawkins.

I’m out of my league.

So, when confused, go with your heart.

I’m going with the St. Louis Blues over the Caps in the final. The Blues are good (so I am told), but I’m doing it because I hung out some with fourth-line Blues forward Kyle Brodziak’s family while I worked in St. Paul two decades ago.

I have taught Kyle a thing or two about handling sports pressure.

During a golf match in St. Paul, I was able to hang on to tie the hockey player. Okay, I took a 13 on the final hole and he was 10 at the time, but it’s still a lesson about the proper ways of handling intense sports pressure was there somewhere. (He would beat me two weeks later).

A good kid, and when he played junior with the Moose Jaw Warriors, I took a bus to join his uncle to watch Kyle play in the playoffs for a winter holiday when I was living in High River. (There are key words in previous sentence to indicate not only my dull life at the time, but also my salary — bus, holiday, winter, Moose Jaw…)

My strategy didn’t work out last year. The Black Hawks knocked out Kyle when he was playing with the Wild. (Ironically, the Wild eliminated the Blues in the first round last year).

As for the Eastern division, even I can read the standings. It will be the Caps.

I nearly went with my heart again, by taking the Florida Panthers, but they have sent down former Okotoks Oiler and High River native Corban Knight.

I was scorned.

He is another great guy, who became one of my girlfriend’s favourite players when we regularly saw him taking summer strolls with his mom in High River.

But, I have to draw the line somewhere.

And besides, I have not ever seen Corban golf.

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