Chiefs vs. the greatest team ever

It will be the Chiefs against the Kitchener Rangers for the Memorial Cup, after the Rangers laid a horrific beating on Belleville in the semifinal, 9-0. Nine goals is the largest margin of victory ever in a Memorial Cup semifinal or final since the round-robin format was introduced.

This was not the Rangers team we saw in their three round-robin games. This was the team we were expecting to see from the beginning of the tournament. They were very, very good tonight and if they play like this on Sunday, the Chiefs are going to have their work cut out for them.

All that being said, I found the incessant fawning over the Rangers coming from Sportsnet's commentators to be very off-putting. This game was all but over by the end of the first period (when Kitchener lead 4-0 already) and by midway through the second period, those two clowns had abandoned any pretense of calling the action and instead conducted a Rangers love-in for the rest of the game, ignoring the play and just gushing on and on and on about this guy and that guy and the next guy on the Rangers. The dozens of future NHLers on the team, how Peter DeBoer needs a bridge or a national park or something named after him, and I think they might have even dipped into discussing which current Rangers' future offspring will discover the cure for cancer, but I finally had to mute them. The hard-ons these two guys have for Kitchener are unreal....I can understand Cosentino's OHL fixation since I don't think he has ever actually been outside of Ontario, but you'd think Loubardias could temper the Kitchener drooling a little considering he's from Saskatchewan and used to do p-b-p for the Pats....

If the Rangers wallop the Chiefs on Sunday then I'll be the first one to agree they're the best team. But they haven't won anything yet and if the Chiefs beat them on Sunday I certainly hope we'll get to listen to Tweedledee and Tweedledum sing the same kind of praises of the Chiefs players and coaches as they did tonight for the Rangers. I won't hold my breath that they will though.....