The whole shootin' match: Kings vs Devils

[Kin]

I'm happy for the Kings but the fans didn't boo Bettman lustily enough.

Their team just won the most parity-riffic Stanley Cup championship ever. Booing the man who made 8 seed upsets so yawn-inducing wouldn't make sense. He should get his name on the cup, quite frankly.

 

[LittleHockeyFan]

why did Mitchell get it next and then Gagne? Shouldn't Quick have been next?

Seniority.

meh. Guy that won it for them shoulda had it first, after the captain.

But Paul Holmgren isn't even in the building.

HAHAHAHHAHAHahahhhhahahahhahahahaha

 

[ZBBM]

Honest to God, if this ever happens in TO there will be such bedlam that it could take a couple of hours to just go through this routine.

 

[ZBBM]

I'm happy for the Kings but the fans didn't boo Bettman lustily enough.

Their team just won the most parity-riffic Stanley Cup championship ever. Booing the man who made 8 seed upsets so yawn-inducing wouldn't make sense. He should get his name on the cup, quite frankly.

It is.  There's a little peel-off label on the inside that only Phil Pritchard knows about.

 

[bustaheims]

The Kings really do have an absurd number of ties to the Flyers.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Never get sick of watching the Cup celebrations.

 

[maplesyrup]

The Kings really do have an absurd number of ties to the Flyers.

I was just thinking that. I was forgetting about Gagner and Hextall.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Never get sick of watching the Cup celebrations.

Agreed. Easily the best in sports I think.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

The Kings really do have an absurd number of ties to the Flyers.

I was just thinking that. I was forgetting about Gagner and Hextall.

I completely forgot about John Stevens.

 

[bustaheims]

The Kings really do have an absurd number of ties to the Flyers.

I was just thinking that. I was forgetting about Gagner and Hextall.

I completely forgot about John Stevens.

Lombardi was with the Flyers for a while as well, which I imagine a lot of people don't remember.

 

[Mr. Leaf]

Never get sick of watching the Cup celebrations.

Me neither!  I can't help but get a huge smile on my face every year when the players are skating around with the Cup.

 

[ZBBM]

Never get sick of watching the Cup celebrations.

Me neither!  I can't help but get a huge smile on my face every year when the players are skating around with the Cup.

All snarkiness aside, ditto.

 

[Kin]

Has Brodeur never grown the beard?

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

Has Brodeur never grown the beard?

I've never seen him with a beard.  Didn't the Devils have a no facial hair policy for a number of years?

 

[hockeyfan1]

Fantastic!  Way to go, L.A.!  Finally, a Stanley Cup parade in Hollywood, which will take place on Thursday.  Wow!!!

 

[hockeyfan1]

From: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/06/12/spector_los_angeles_kings_win_first_stanley_cup/

The purple and gold Kings have been hockey's door mat to varying degrees since Jack Kent Cooke bought the team and built the Fabulous Forum. From years of trading away draft picks and prospects in search of the Hollywood quick fix, it was a goaltender named Jonathan Quick - drafted 72nd overall in 2005 - who carried off the Conn Smythe, a metaphor for this California knock-down and rebuild that's been seven years in the making.

This Cup is comfort food for those fans in Toronto and Edmonton, and other places where rebuilds have been undertaken, yet the losing still stings.

It didn't happen fast here. They went through a couple of general managers, a few coaches, and a bunch of expendable veterans while the right young players were drafted or acquired, and then properly groomed.

Quick and Kopitar were drafted in '05. Brown in '03. Doughty in '08.

This was no overnight success, nor was it in Chicago or Pittsburgh, two organizations that undertook the same rebuild and won Stanley Cups six or seven years down the line.

Source: Sportsnet

 

[Bonsixx]

Never get sick of watching the Cup celebrations.

Me neither!  I can't help but get a huge smile on my face every year when the players are skating around with the Cup.

I find myself less and less enthused as time passes where I have no horse in the race. Good for the Kings, but I watched about two or three full games throughout the entire playoffs and only one game of the final. This is mainly due to my night work shift, but I never once felt like I was missing anything.

Coincidentally, I started that night job a few months after the Leafs were knocked out of the 2004 playoffs and I've always worried about what I'd do if I had to work during a Leaf playoff game ever since. Luckily, those fears have always proven unfounded.

 

[cw]

From: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/06/12/spector_los_angeles_kings_win_first_stanley_cup/

The purple and gold Kings have been hockey's door mat to varying degrees since Jack Kent Cooke bought the team and built the Fabulous Forum. From years of trading away draft picks and prospects in search of the Hollywood quick fix, it was a goaltender named Jonathan Quick - drafted 72nd overall in 2005 - who carried off the Conn Smythe, a metaphor for this California knock-down and rebuild that's been seven years in the making.

This Cup is comfort food for those fans in Toronto and Edmonton, and other places where rebuilds have been undertaken, yet the losing still stings.

It didn't happen fast here. They went through a couple of general managers, a few coaches, and a bunch of expendable veterans while the right young players were drafted or acquired, and then properly groomed.

Quick and Kopitar were drafted in '05. Brown in '03. Doughty in '08.

This was no overnight success, nor was it in Chicago or Pittsburgh, two organizations that undertook the same rebuild and won Stanley Cups six or seven years down the line.

Source: Sportsnet

Heard Luc Robitaille, now a part of the Kings front office, interviewed last night. He preached that they had a plan, stuck to it and really stressed that they were patient. I thought of Burke when I heard those words ... in a hurry to make the playoffs.

 

[maplesyrup]

Dave Taylor deserves much of the credit here. Terrific hire by the Blues I think.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

From: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2012/06/12/spector_los_angeles_kings_win_first_stanley_cup/

The purple and gold Kings have been hockey's door mat to varying degrees since Jack Kent Cooke bought the team and built the Fabulous Forum. From years of trading away draft picks and prospects in search of the Hollywood quick fix, it was a goaltender named Jonathan Quick - drafted 72nd overall in 2005 - who carried off the Conn Smythe, a metaphor for this California knock-down and rebuild that's been seven years in the making.

This Cup is comfort food for those fans in Toronto and Edmonton, and other places where rebuilds have been undertaken, yet the losing still stings.

It didn't happen fast here. They went through a couple of general managers, a few coaches, and a bunch of expendable veterans while the right young players were drafted or acquired, and then properly groomed.

Quick and Kopitar were drafted in '05. Brown in '03. Doughty in '08.

This was no overnight success, nor was it in Chicago or Pittsburgh, two organizations that undertook the same rebuild and won Stanley Cups six or seven years down the line.

Source: Sportsnet

Heard Luc Robitaille, now a part of the Kings front office, interviewed last night. He preached that they had a plan, stuck to it and really stressed that they were patient. I thought of Burke when I heard those words ... in a hurry to make the playoffs.

You can say that after you win.