Oh Canada...

...our home and native land.

Let's go Canadiens (clap, clap, clad, clap, clap). Let's go Canadiens (clap, clap, clap, clap, clap).

The Boston Bruins are staring down elmination, trailing 3-1 to the Montreal Canadiens in their best-of-seven first round playoff series, and I'm staring down at a bottle of Cabo Wabo tequila.

Watching the two games at the Garden and listening to how much noise the Canadiens' fans were able to muster in the Bruins home arena gives Boston fans an idea of how Baltimore and Tampa Bay fans feel when followers of the Boston Red Sox invade those cities and make more noise than the fans of the home team.

I see the Canadiens putting the Bruins and their fans (all three that are left on the bandwagon) out of their misery this evening. Though there's a part (small as it is) of me that thinks that this could be the Bruins waiting to extracting revenge on the Canadiens for their 2003 first round playoff loss, when it was the top-seeded Bruins who had a 3-1 series lead, before losing three straight to Montreal.

Montreal's coach at the time - Claude Julien, who is now the Bruins coach.

Maybe the Bruins have the Canadiens right where they want them.

By the way, if the Bruins want to have a chance offensively this evening (which they haven't had in the first four games), Phil Kessel shouldn't be a healthy scratch.