MONTREAL -- For Montreal Canadiens and their rabid fans, its seventh heaven.
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fight for their playoff lives, the Montreal club pulled off a convincing 4-0 win
against the Boston Bruins on Monday night to force a seventh and deciding game
in their Stanley Cup playoff semifinal series. To hear their fanbase, a
do-or-die Game 6 win against their hated rivals from Boston was never in doubt.
"Incredible! The Habs are the best, did you see that win?," yelled Andrew
Giannakis, breathlessly, as he emerged from the arena. "They scored the first
goal and the rest is history." As with Monday night, Montreal is faced with a
must-win situation in 48 hours if it wants to continue being the only Canadian
team in the NHL playoffs this year. Some, likes Charles Mondon, can feel the
playoff fever in the air. "I dont think there is no better place to cheer for
hockey than Montreal," said Mondon, sporting a Max Pacioretty jersey as he
smoked a cigarette outside the arena. "No disrespect to the rest of Canada ...
here in Montreal, we bleed hockey, we breath hockey, we eat hockey, we sleep
hockey." Mondon predicts a close contest on Wednesday night -- a three-goal game
that could really go either way. "To be honest with you, Game 7 against Boston
for round two is the best feeling in the world," Mondon said. "I think were
going to beat them." Montreal and Boston is considered one of the greatest
rivalry in sports, and that battle is playing out again this post-season. The
Canadiens and Bruins have met a whopping 34 times in the NHL playoffs, with the
Canadiens having won 24 of those series. Things have been different in recent
years -- the Bruins have taken the last two series in 2009 and 2011. But fans
are hoping for a reversal of fortunes, like Devon Pattemore of Yorkton, Sask., a
lifelong Habs fan who finds herself in Montreal for a conference during a
playoff run. Sporting a well-worn Saku Koivu jersey, she came out to watch the
third period outside the Bell Centre with a few hundred other fans who peered
into a restaurants giant screen from outside the eatery. "Theyre just a faster
team and I just believe in them," said Pattemore, predicting a Montreal Game 7
victory. "On Wednesday night well be at a pub (in town) watching." The last time
the Canadiens beat the Bruins in the playoffs was in 2008 and it was largely
overshadowed by what happened once the game was done. A thrilling, emotionally
charged seventh game win ended with smashed windows, tear gas and arrests.
Police cars were set ablaze and stores looted when a festive celebration turned
ugly. But in a city known for its hockey-related rioting, security has not been
an issue so far in these playoffs. There was a heavy police presence downtown on
Monday night, but few revellers made it up to the downtown core. Clusters of
officers were gathered at every street corner and in front of storefronts that
might be susceptible to looting. Security guards hired by some businesses milled
about and there were no large gatherings on a crisp May evening. And by the end
of the night, Montreal police reported no major incidents.
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LONDON -- The doping retests from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin involve 350
samples, cost $500,000 and are based on intelligence that targets athletes and
events considered most at risk for cheating, the IOCs medical director said.
Despite the cost, effort and an improved steroid test, its possible that very
few -- if any -- positives will be detected, Dr. Richard Budgett told The
Associated Press in an interview. "We just dont know what the results from
Torino will be," Budgett said. "I wouldnt be at all surprised if its far, far,
far less than people are speculating, despite this new method. Weve set the
expectations at a sensible level. We do not expect necessarily to have any
positives." Budgett provided the greatest detail so far of the International
Olympic Committees reanalysis of the Turin samples, which includes a test that
can detect steroid use going back months. The IOC stores Olympic samples for
eight years to allow for retesting when new methods become available. With the
deadline for the Turin samples expiring in February, the IOC is doing
last-minute retesting to catch any cheats who got away at the time.
"Approximately 350 samples are being analyzed," Budgett said in a telephone
interview. "Weve selected them based on intelligence. It involves a bit under
200 athletes as many of the athletes have more than one sample." The retesting
is "a good half way through" and the results will be finalized by the end of the
year, Budgett said. The program involves a "full menu" of tests, including the
"long-term metabolite" method that widens the window so steroids can be detected
several months -- rather than days -- after they were taken. The urine and blood
samples are being reanalyzed at the anti-doping lab in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The IOC has budgeted half a million dollars for the tests -- "the whole package
of intelligence, doing the reanalysis and follow up of any samples," Budgett
said. Any positive findings would lead to retroactive disqualification and loss
of medals.
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The testing is focused on athletes, especially medallists , who would have been
most likely to dope. "We spent a lot of time gathering intelligence on the
sports at risk, the countries at risk, on the individuals and coaches and the
groups of athletes at risk," Budgett said. "The reanalysis is absolutely as
targeted as possible." The IOC worked with the UK Anti-Doping agency on the
intelligence gathering. "Were more interested in medal winners than other
people, but were also looking at patterns of previous positive tests," Budgett
said. "Weve had 7-8 years of looking at the patterns of subsequent positive
tests so you can see where there might be a risk. "There are well-known events
like biathlon and cross-country skiing where there is a long history of abuse of
EPO and other substances, and some sports such as curling where theres no
history of abuse at all." In 2010, the IOC retested some Turin samples for
insulin and blood-booster CERA but all came back negative. Those samples are now
destroyed, so the latest tests are on different samples. Only one positive case
was recorded during the Turin Games, with Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva stripped
of a silver medal after testing positive for a banned stimulant. Last year, the
IOC retested samples from the 2004 Athens Olympics and caught five athletes who
were retroactively stripped of medals for using steroids, including mens shot
put winner Yuriy Bilonog of Ukraine. Previously, retests of samples from the
2008 Beijing Olympics led to five positive cases for CERA -- with Bahrain runner
Rashid Ramzi stripped of gold in the 1,500 metres. Budgett said the new steroid
test -- as well as any other improved techniques -- will be used to retest more
Beijing samples before the eight-year statute expires in 2016. The latest
steroid test was developed by the World Anti-Doping Agency lab in Cologne,
Germany. ------
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