By Damian Cristodero, Times Staff Writer; Times wires
Monday, May 2, 2011
Day of reflection for Boudreau
Sunday's death of Osama bin Laden brings strong, personal memories of the Sept. 11 terror attacks for Capitals coach Bruce Boudreau.
Scott Burnside of ESPN.com points out that Boudreau, in his autobiography, Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer, talks about how he originally was supposed to be aboard the plane that hit the South Tower at the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.
Boudreau, then coach at the Kings' AHL affiliate in Manchester, N.H., was instead asked by then-Kings coach Andy Murray to come to L.A. a day earlier. Boudreau tried to get his friend Ace Bailey to join him on the earlier flight, but it would have been expensive, so Bailey kept his original itinerary. Bailey and fellow Kings scout Mark Bavis were among those killed aboard United Flight 175.
Boudreau acknowledged Sunday's events but told Burnside: "I'm not thinking about that right now. I'll let the rest of the world think about it."
Tickets
Games 3, 4 and 6 at the St. Pete Times Forum are technically sold out. Potentially unused team tickets might be released at various times, so periodically check with Ticketmaster.
The series Lightning leads 2-0
Game 1, Lightning 4, Capitals 2: The line of Downie-Bergenheim-Moore comes up big again.
Game 2, Lightning 3, Capitals 2 (OT): Lecavalier's winner helps Tampa Bay shake off Ovechkin's late OT-forcing goal.
Tonight: at Tampa Bay, 6:30, Sun Sports
Wednesday: at Tampa Bay, 7, Sun Sports
Saturday: at Washington, 12:30, Ch. 8 *
May 9: at Tampa Bay, TBD, TBD *
May 11: at Washington, TBD, TBD *
* If necessary
Radio: Games 3 and 4 on 970-AM; rest TBD
Quote to note
"Basically, it's walking on a tightrope. If you think you're high and you look down, you start wobbling. If you look up because you think you're not good enough, you'll start wobbling, too. But if you look ahead and focus on the task and what you need to do and keep it a very narrow focus, you tend to do things the right way."
Lightning coach Guy Boucher on managing expectations