The Bruins won last night.

Yes, the game went into overtime. No I did not stay awake to see the entire game.

The Bruins and the Blackhawks played some pretty damned good hockey. The Blackhawks took 34 shots at Rask and he managed to stop 33 of them. The Bruins took 28 shots at Crawford and he managed to stop 26 of them.

This entire series is going to come down to those two goalies. They are pretty amazing to watch because I have no idea how they see that puck coming at them. Most of the time there are three or four guys standing in front of them when the shot is taken and they still see the puck in enough time to get their glove or stick up to block it.

And just so you get the full picture, the fastest shot ever recorded in the NHL was taken by Zdeno Chara. It was recorded at 108 mph. The fastest shot ever recorded is held by some guy with a lot of consonants in his name who plays in Russia's KHL. It was recorded at 114 mph.

That is fast. Very, very fast.

Try seeing a small black object coming at you at 100 mph while four guys wearing multi-color clothing move around in front of you.

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The Red Sox managed to lose this afternoon. John Lester is not having a good month but you can't blame him too much. I've always said, it's the number of ties you step on home plate that matters and they just didn't step on home plate was many times as the Orioles.

The kid, Iglesias, has a 17 game hitting streak which is pretty damned impressive for a guy that couldn't hit anything last year. They say that when he came up this year, Pedrioa told him that there was no way he should be missing the baseball. Then he asked him if he ever played pepper.

For those of you that have never heard of pepper, that's where two guys hit a baseball back and forth as many times as they can. Sort of like tennis but with a hardball and baseball bats.

It's not easy to do and it can be dangerous as hell. As a matter of fact, most major league ball parks have signs that say, "No Pepper" around home plate. That means there is no playing pepper during batting practice because you might kill someone.

The goal of pepper is to improve your hitting skill and it appears to have worked with Iglesias. He is hitting pretty well and I like the fact they are keeping him on the team.

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