Hard to focus tonight.
I'm already thinking about Chicago's Miracle Mile.
And how neat it's going to be to have a Stanley Cup Final in two, very large American cities.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
"Well, I mean the one thing we don't want to do is look past Montreal," Danny Briere scolded me when I suggested it's hard not to think ahead here.
"We can't control what happened on the other side. We'll deal with that once it's all over. I really don't want to start looking past Montreal. There is one big, tough game left to win for us. Hopefully it's tonight. That's what we're focusing on.
"But like I said, the focus is all on tonight, on Montreal. We know they're going to come out desperate. We don't expect them to sit back and just roll over. They haven't done it in the previous two Series, and we expect the same from them tonight, so we know it's going to be tough. "
Claude Giroux told me he allowed himself to think ahead over the weekend, as well.
"Yeah, actually yesterday I was thinking about it," Giroux said. "I was looking at the big picture and winning the Stanley Cup. I told myself not to really think about that. Just got to go game by game, and I think that's one of the reasons why we're here.
"Now we just focus on the game we have in front of us, and we're not looking at the big picture. I think if we keep doing that, just put all of our energy in that next game, I think it's huge. I think we should keep thinking like that."
I was remembering the words to Sinatra's "Chicago, My Kind of Town."
I think the Flyers end this series tonight. I don't want to go back to Montreal. They don't want to go back either.
The Flyers don't want anything more to do with pellets of calcium chloride and sand and damaged skates. No more of that.
They wants steaks at Daley's and live jazz and Second City.
The Flyers clinched 2 series already on the road. How about something for the home town, eh?
"Yeah, it would be nice," Mike Richards said. "The fans here deserve it for sticking behind us through the whirlwind of a season that we just had. It would be nice to play well enough tonight to wrap it up and get that last win to move on, obviously.
"Montreal's not a place that I think that we want to go back to, but at the same time we know we have to play extremely well to do so and have a start like we did last game."
The series will start Saturday. Can't wait.
Montreal's season ends tonight.
Lots of weeping in Chez Paree awaits.
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