Well, there you have it, folks!! For anyone that stayed tuned long enough, the Carolina Hurricanes have won their first Stanley Cup. Crushing the dreams of Canadians everywhere (especially in Edmonton...you know - the city with the really big mall), but congratulations all the same...

For hockey fans, it was a terrific series. The Cinderella story of our own (Canadian) Edmonton Oilers, rallying from a two-game deficit to force a seventh and deciding game, was the stuff that dreams are made of. Unless you happened to be NBC, a broadcast network that found ratings for Cinderella stories on skates floundering below 3-hour documentaries on "Sunflowers: From Birth To Harvest", or live coverage of Nashville's 2006 National Rhinestone Decorators' Convention.

For any sad soul that actually cared to view the final game, they were treated with the same respect as fans of the past season of Last Comic Standing, who saw (actually, no they didn't) their final episode yanked as well. You had to go online to find out who won, in both cases.

In all fairness, if the polls indicate nobody is watching, why not throw on something entrancing, like reruns of 20/20 from 1987?? You can't get enough of little Tommy Cruise, jumping on sofas either...

Whatever the outcome, the season is over now, and we must wait until at least July before we hear about hockey again. What to do with this vast emptiness inside??

Hmm. It does look kind of warm outside. Maybe I should go out and take a stroll??

Do you think it would look odd if I brought along my hockey stick??

Chow for now!!