{"id":6151,"date":"2012-10-25T17:17:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2012-10-25T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:17:42","slug":"our-final-thoughts-on-the-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/our-final-thoughts-on-the-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Final Thoughts on the Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Patrick Larsen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our intrepid news team has covered this game six ways to Sunday so there really isn&#8217;t much more to add. We could talk about the fact that Tropical Storm Sandy may have a part to play in the proceedings. Or figure out how Suz is going to win it for Fresh Kills this year (we hear she hasn&#8217;t ruled out streaking). But the lesson to be learned from four rounds of playoffs is this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s game. Take a look at those semi-final results. Both games won by single goals late in regulation. Or even better. Look at the quarter finals. Three overtime games, two shootout wins. A different call by a referee, a different move by a goalie and we might be watching a completely different final. But as it is, we&#8217;ve got two very evenly matched teams going head to head in what&#8217;s sure to be a close, hardly fought game. Both teams have talent, both teams have heart but one team will have better fortune on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to them both.<\/p>\n<p>And now, thanks to the diligent efforts of our researchers, a look at Ken Poulin&#8217;s rookie card.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Skinner_Poulin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6152\" title=\"Skinner_Poulin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.btsh.org\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Skinner_Poulin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Skinner_Poulin.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Skinner_Poulin-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Larsen Our intrepid news team has covered this game six ways to Sunday so there really isn&#8217;t much more to add. We could talk about the fact that Tropical Storm Sandy may have a part to play in the proceedings. Or figure out how Suz is going to win it for Fresh Kills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}