Smackdown Sports
With The Smock
What’s up sports fans? It’s your man DJ Smock coming to you with another edition with the June edition of Smackdown Sports for Underground Vision Magazine. It’s June, which means its championship season for the National Hockey League and for the NBA! Thus for both championship series have been full of drama and exciting storylines. So come on and take this ride down the road towards a championship with yours truly as our first stop takes us to the Stanley Cup Finals in Tampa Bay with the host team the Lighting, the Eastern Conference champions and their star goaltender Ben Bishop who has helped lead the team to thrilling game 7 victories in three straight series versus the likes of hockey royalty in the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadian’s, and the New York Rangers with the Lighting defeating the Rangers in Madison Square Garden in a game 7 shutout. The other end of this championship showdown is the Western Conference champion Chicago Blackhawks with star forwards Patrick Kane and Marion Hossa. Chicago breezed through the Western Conference playoffs and cruised to the Finals with tough defense and the scoring of Kane and Hossa along with stellar goaltending play of Corey Crawford. The Blackhawks traveled down top Tampa and stole game 1 and home ice of the series by a score of 2-1 with the game winning goal by Antoine Vermette. Game 2 saw the Lighting get back into the series and tying it at a game a piece with a final score of 4-3. The scene shifted to Chicago for Game 3 which saw the mysterious absence of goalie Ben Bishop to some sort of undisclosed stomach ailment, which in the Smock’s view equates to a bad case of the bubble guts, but overcame the loss of their All-Star goalie with reserve goaltender Vasilevskiy and winning game 3 in Chicago 2-1 to take a one game lead in the series. Chicago came back to tie the series at 2-2 by winning game 4, 2-1 and winning game five by that same score to take a 3-2 series lead and get to within one win of their third Stanley Cup in 6 seasons. No matter what happens in this series Game 6 I Tampa Bay on Monday night will be filled with action beyond any hockey fans wildest dreams. We know shift to the NBA finals with the matchup of the Western Conference champions Golden State Warriors with MVP in Steph Curry and his fellow splash backcourt mate Klay Thompson versus what arguable the best player in the world in Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers winners of the Eastern Conference championship.