Playoff Prayer
April 15th, 2009 by mthompsonDear Lord,
Thank you for delivering the Flames to the playoffs for a 4th consecutive season.
We appreciate Your far-reaching wisdom, bestowed upon us in the form of near crippling late season injuries in the knowledge that it will make our team stronger and more resilient.
Thank you also for wrecking the hopes of our good friends to the North. We especially appreciate how You made them give poor Curtis McElhinney his first career NHL win in the process. It has been a fun experience, not hating those Oilers and all, and we thank you for this brief reconciliation before they bring in Jarkko Ruutu, Jaromir Jagr, and Martin Gerber and once again become the greasiest team in the Western Conference.
Thank you for returning Rene Bourque, Dion Phaneuf, and Curtis Glencross to us. Would it be too much to wish for a miracle recovery for Your avenging, skill-erasing angel, Robyn Regehr? We really need him to deal with those adolescent Blackhawks.
Please give your blessing to Olli Jokinen, too. We really need him to show up, and You know that he doesn’t deserve the hammering he gets from those vile false-prophets in the media. Playoff experience, schmayoff experience!
Thank you again for another year of exciting first round match-ups. In Your wisdom we trust, and if You do indeed wish for the Jackets, Canadiens, and Flyers to prevail, we will understand. Especially the Jackets.
For all this, we pray.
.
.
.
PS. I don’t suppose You could visit a bit of minor flu upon Nikolai Khabibulin, could you? After all, his god-like play against the Flames seems a bit… I don’t know… presumptuous? Blasphemous, even?
In fact, I hear that “captain” Roberto Luongo is saying he’s capable of miracles too. Smite away!
Posted in Playoffs
