Stunned at the Rangers' arrival at this point, a game away from
elimination, I sit around playing Beatles records all day while my Mom and
Dad are at work and my brother is at school. One in particular, "Let It
Be," seems to hold a little resonance -- "There will be an answer, let it
be." "And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on
me/Shine on till tomorrow, let it be." I numbly rock in time. It's a little
comforting at the darkest hour of the season, a weird little combination of
hope and acceptance in the darkness, though Paul certainly wasn't thinking
about a hockey game 25 years earlier. I reach this weird state of
acceptance, this odd rationalization -- they've gotten deeper into the
playoffs than they have in eight years, they've played well, they've come
close, maybe there's next year.
I then get annoyed at myself, and remind myself there are two games to be
played, dammit.
I obviously don't realize it at the time, wouldn't hear about it until that
night, but sometime during that Beatles marathon, the captain of the New
York Rangers says something about how the series will go back to the Garden
for Game 7. The New York Post would turn it into a back-page guarantee on
Wednesday, May 25, 1994: "We'll Win Tonight."
Meanwhile on May 24, the Canucks' Greg Adams scores 14 seconds into double
overtime, giving Vancouver a 4-3 win and a 4-1 series win over Toronto.
It's the Canucks' first trip to the finals since 1982. They await the
Rangers-Devils winner.
On a completely different note -- timing is everything, the cliche goes,
and sure enough, one week ago, Alan W. Pollack's fabulous "notes on"
Beatles songs series hit the title track from the Beatles' last
regularly-released album. If interested, get yourself to
rec.music.beatles.moderated; with luck, "Notes on 'Let It Be' (LIB)" should
still be there. If not, use
Song titles are listed by initials with some exceptions. It's outstanding
stuff.
And now back to your regularly scheduled hockey talk.
Mike (The movie version also says "there will be no sorrow," and that one
in retrospect was the one that turned out right) Fornabaio --
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