Two days ago, Drew from Nightmare on Helm Street and I had a wager on last night's Boston Bruins vs Detroit Red Wings game. If the Red Wings won, Drew would gloat about their win on this blog and if Boston won, I was to do the same on his. Last night, the Bruins lost 2-0 in Hockey Town and as promised, here is Drew's entry:

Like I said in my post yesterday, I have nothing but respect for the Boston Bruins organ-i-zation. I can appreciate a fellow Original Six franchise, the history, the prestige. I can also appreciate the fact that in your many years of history that you have never (as Detroit has never) been in danger of moving or going through bankruptcy as our current Stanley Cup Champions did…twice.

With all of that said, rather than brag and gloat as is my right to do so given the terms set by the proprietor of this fine site and myself, I thought I would take the high road and simply write the Boston Bruins a nice little thank you note…

Let me start by thanking you for letting Chris Osgood record his 50th career shutout against you. Allowing him to do so on home ice was very thoughtful of you. Ozzie, as you may have read, was having a rough go of things early this season, and in your selflessness, you made him look like play-off Osgood once more.

Thank you for Marco Sturm. It was awfully charitable of him to slide the puck across the goal line, allowing Ozzie to make the save.

Thank you for playing posts rather than trying to score goals. We all know that Zdeno Chara and Michael Ryder could have scored at will, but instead challenged themselves to clank the iron rather than tickle the twine.

Thank you for not covering Zetterberg off the draw in what has to be the quickest power-play of the season.

Thank you for your power-play. Our penalty-killing sure needed a boost of confidence and you were generous enough to give it to us. I thought it was just great the way you told Chara not to simply wind up and fire that clapper from the point when he had the chance.Though it was a little selfish of you to pass the puck around so well in our zone and start to get me worried, you made up for it by not getting any real significant scoring chances while on the man-advantage.

Last but certainly not least, thank you for the win. The Red Wings can certainly sympathize with your slow start following what was an extremely disappointing end to the ’08-’09 play-offs. We’re in the same boat. Sure we actually won our conference, made it game seven of the Finals, and only lost because Gary wanted to see his baby boy hoist the cup, but we can sympathize with your plight. So we’d like to thank you for giving us the always important two points which we will try and utilize to its full potential as we begin to climb up in the conference standings.

- Drew

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