All the pressure is on Carolina tonight. They win and everyone says, “yeah, so, you played a team with an AHL defense, you should win”. They lose and everyone says, “You really must suck, you just got beat by a team with an AHL defense”.
If you’re one of those kids from Rochester, this is your big chance. This is why you’ve been getting up at 5am since you were 13 to be at practice before school. All those years at the arena, missed parties, long road trips in shitty buses, the sacrifices your parents probably made to keep you in the latest gear… it all has been leading up to tonight, the night you get to play a game 7, in the conference finals, for a shot to play for the greatest trophy in professional sports. There is no pressure on you, no one expects you to be NHL level players yet, so go out there and prove yourself.
GO SABRES!