The Celtics mailed in another clunker, the Bruins squandered another third period lead and the Sox won with small ball and pitching...
...and for a town that could use some normalcy, that's about as normal as you can get.
Anyone who was expecting anything but a business class mail job in the Celtics' last regular season game hasn't been paying attention. Playoff spot clinched, seventh seed locked in, old guys sitting it out or playing a few minutes to stay in the loop - this one was garbage time from the opening tip...
...and by the time it was over, the Toronto Raptors had won a game by a 114-90 score that nobody but the backups felt like playing - and play they did. Names like Crawford, Lee, White and Williams picked up near-starter minutes while Pierce, Green and Bass played just long enough to break a sweat and neither Kevin Garnett nor Jason Terry were anywhere to be seen.
The result was predictable, as the game took the air of a Paul Westhead-style pick up game in the early going and never really resembled anything more than that as the Celtics rested folks in anticipation of their 1st round series against the Knicks, the sacrifice - er, series - set to begin this weekend at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Meanwhile at TD Garden in Boston, Buffalo Sabres Cody Hodgson scored a game tying goal with 27 seconds left in regulation, forcing overtime and eventually a shootout where the Bruins inevitably lost by a score of 3-2, but the one point for going to overtime forged a tie for the lead in the Northeast Division in the process...
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