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The winner gets to skate the world's most recognizable trophy aroound the ice, while the losers can only watch - and weep!
Posted on 06/10/2009 6:05:46 PM PDT by airborne
Game 7 of the Final is hockey's ultimate contest
For a hockey fan, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final is like waiting for Christmas: It seems like the big day takes forever to get there, but when it does, it's well worth the wait.
Of course, Christmas comes just once a year. A Final series that goes the maximum seven games comes along infrequently. Since the NHL expanded from the Original Six teams in 1967, the championship round has gone the distance just eight times, including this year's Final between Detroit and Pittsburgh. If the Stanley Cup Final is really the NHL's two best teams facing off for the championship, it seems logical that there would be more than eight seven-gamers in a span of 42 years — after all, baseball's World Series has gone the distance 14 times in the same span (though not since 2002).
But baseball has just eight teams in the postseason and only two rounds of playoffs before the World Series, so there's a much smaller likelihood of upsets in the early going. In contrast, with three rounds and potentially 21 games to play just to get to the Final, at least one of the teams is often worn out from the journey.
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The winner gets to skate the world's most recognizable trophy aroound the ice, while the losers can only watch - and weep!
STANLEY CUP FINALS! GAME 7 PING!!!
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS WEBSITE
http://penguins.nhl.com/index.html
DETROIT RED WINGS WEBSITE
http://redwings.nhl.com/index.html
Are you serious? I stopped paying attention after Game 2 what happened?
Reading the thread and all the links I’ve provided will get you up to speed.
To be brief, both teams have won their games at home.
the teams won all their home games, it wasn’t that big of a shock that Pitt came back, except to all the wirters.
I’m a Flyers fan, but go Pens!
Go Eastern Conference Champs
Detroit is HockeyTown. Get used to it. Go Wings!!!
Funny, I haven’t seen or heard from Barry Melrose since he wrote the Pens off prior to game 6.
The whole Hockeytown arrogance is exactly why I’m cheering for the Pens. The Wings act too much like the Dallas Cowboys, who claim to be America’s team.
The same reason I am for anyone who is playing the Yankees. But, please don’t confuse confidence for arrogance.
It sounds like arrogance to me, although I’m betting the Wing’s players don’t think that way.
May the best team win.
Sursum Corda, a Habs fan, now residing in Colorado
To be honest this game should be an excellent match and I’m not as confident as I was when it started. The only thing they have going for them is home ice. They are hard to beat playing in the D.
Can Crosby, Maltin, and Marc-Andre Fleury keep the reins on Zetterberg, Datsyuk and Osgood? This may be the key to the game.
Detroit gets the last change, and I think that’s been the difference.
worst commercial ever: Shows the day-in-the-life of the handler of the cup. A tad bit too cheezy for my liking.
Okay - buried in the article it is this Friday, June 12th in Detroit, at 8pm. That must mean Central Time?
...you don’t know the wings very well, do you?
I thought this was the most recognizable trophy.
http://www.wldcup.com/pictures/wld2006/0606/pic90.jpg
Yep! Looks happy - if somewhat battered!
Junie K.
You’d be wrong.
The Stanley Cup is recognized worldwide. I’ve never seen the trophy you posted.
8 PM eastern time on NBC.
Everything is eastern, unless stated otherwise.
MM
“Fort NeverLose” .... hehehehee :)
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:) I like that name!
Well .. could have been worse ... could have occurred during the Internet age where the term would be misspeeled and misgrammararcated as "Fort NeverLoose". ... And then all heck would break loose ...... :)
you don’t know the wings very well, do you?”
N, I don’t. We don’t get to see them much here in the East. They are clearly the gold standard for hockey organizations. But the ‘Hockeytown” thing is still arrogant.
:)
That’s true...
well- but to be “NeverLoose” might be good too! Wouldn’t that imply that you had a ‘Tight’ team? ;)
Junie
715 million people watched the 2006 final event and might be able to tell you what it stands for.
So far there have been NO OT games in this series.
Here’s hoping for quintuple OT, and may the best team...er...Pitt.... win.
Potvin sucks ... Potvin sucks ... Potvin sucks ...
10:28 AM: Here is a photo of die hard Penguins fans who are currently serving in Logar, Afghanistan. The crew wakes up each morning at 4 a.m. just to watch the Penguins in action, and they were kind enough to send us their pics. "We just wanted to wish the Pens good luck from Afghanistan for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. GO PENS!" wrote CPT Jordan Settle of Pennsylvania. From left to right: CW2 John Fleshman from North Carolina, CPT Settle and CPT Justin Oshana of Pennsylvania. The men are members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division halfway through their one-year deployment. The Penguins organization is honored to have their support and wish these brave soldiers the best as they serve and defend our country.
IMO, hockeytown can be used by any original 6 team...the Wings will gladly share it. “Arrogance,” not sure I would use that word to describe a team that has worked/played hard and endured their share of losses as well as earned their wins.
According to Wiki:
Hockeytown is a nickname for the city of Detroit, Michigan, which arose in 1996 thanks to a marketing campaign by the city’s NHL franchise, the Detroit Red Wings. The nickname, over time, has gained national and international recognition. The “Hockeytown Cafe” in Detroit commemorates the nickname.
According to Sports Illustrated, Saint Paul, Minnesota can also be called Hockeytown, due not only to the NHL team (Minnesota Wild) but also its college, high school and youth programs.[1] Warroad, Minnesota has also been called Hockeytown, USA over four decades prior to the Red Wings’ use of the name.[2]
As of the 2006–2007 season, there has been a grassroots movement in Buffalo, NY (home to the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres) to label Buffalo as “The New Hockeytown” due to the overwhelming fan presence outside HSBC Arena during games, as well as throughout the community.[3][4]
Mayor of Pittsburgh Luke Ravenstahl wanted usage of the “Hockeytown” moniker included in a bet over the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Kilpatrick refused. His staff stated that “We can’t do the Hockeytown bet... that is a trademark and a brand” and that the name is a trademark of the Red Wings.[5]
“Hockeytown, USA” is still a registered trademark of Ilitch Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the Red Wings, and the Red Wings will continue to use the name for the foreseeable future.[6][not in citation given]
Hahahahaaa .. OK, but you left off the musical intro leading up to that chant:
"dut-dut-dut-daaa-daaa --- dut-dut-dut-daaa-daaa -- dut-dut-dut ... " (cue: JohnG45)
Wings are tough at home, but this is what every pro hockey player has dreamed about since pee-wee's - 1 game for the cup. Anything can happen.
To a Ranger fan like myself, that picture of Potvin raising the Cup is worse than the Helen Thomas pictures that I see appearing in so many threads around here.
It is a shame to see what has happened since to that once great franchise, the NY Islanders. Now that it is in the distant past, one can better appreciate how great those Islanders teams were.
They have a fantastic nucleus of superstar players who are all young. We can expect the Penguins to be great for years to come!
And winning the Cup tonight would be sweet!
GO PENS GO!!!!! GO BEARS GO!!!!!
I'm off to Hershey for the tailgate party prior to the game 6 Calder Cup finals contest between my Hershey Bears and Manitoba Moose. I get to see my two favorite hockey teams play (and hopefully win)their championship games! Enjoy the game everyone! And be nice to one another!!
'Badger' Bob Johnson said it best ! "IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR HOCKEY!!"
GO PENS!
As someone else said, the last change has really made a difference in this series. Tonight ought to be very fun to watch!
Who wins this year will have EARNED it.
GO PENS! GO BEARS! I hope you have a double to celebrate tonight.
My 2 cases of Strohs against your six pack of Yuengling says the Wings will repeat last year's championship.
Waddya say?
No exchange rate can fairly equivocate Yuengling and Strohs.
ROFL
Strohs? Ick, you’d have to pay me to drink that. Now Yuengling is a righteous brew!
Enjoying a Thomas Hooker right now. Detroit is tough this series at home, no doubt. But games 7 are always full of surprises.
Love love love game 7s.
Its do or die... Go Pens!
4 Stanleys in the last 12 years......not bad.
Just remember:
Strohs = backwards shorts
Not at all.
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