Blackhawks win the cup!

[spazlabz]

Lord Stanley will be visiting the windy city for the next year, first time I think since 61

[Dcat]

Yep, once again the Canadians have won the Stanley Cup!

I think there are 18 or 19 Canadian born players listed on their official roster.

Good for Chicago, what an awesome team! I picked Chicago to win the cup at the start of the season.

[fatfoo]

Many men and 1 cup.

This is not 2 girls and 1 cup.

Joking.

[NetHorse]

3rd times a charm!!!!!!!!!! HAWKS!

[ErectMedia]

Had fireworks here and the 4 bars around me emptied out and all the drunk people were on each corner basically walking into traffic making people blow their horns and waving blackhawks flags, still going on but not as bad as earlier. Chicago is definitely a sports town. When they come home it should be interesting. When the white sox won and came home tons of people lined up at the airport I'm assuming the same will happen when they return.

[CarlosTheGaucho]

Pretty cool

One thing I love about NHL - you never know who's gonna win, cause everyone's playing on 110 pct. in the playoffs

This year's underdog can be the champion in two years

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by ErectMedia

Had fireworks here and the 4 bars around me emptied out and all the drunk people were on each corner basically walking into traffic making people blow their horns and waving blackhawks flags, still going on but not as bad as earlier. Chicago is definitely a sports town. When they come home it should be interesting. When the white sox won and came home tons of people lined up at the airport I'm assuming the same will happen when they return.

I went to high school in a burb of shy town and when da bears annihilated the pats in the super bowl every person I knew promptly lost their freaking minds for about a week! Really great times and occasionally I miss 'the city' I definitely miss the pizza and italian subs........mmmmmmmmm, juicy subs

[CDSmith]

I see Winnipeg boy Jonathan Toews got the Con Smythe. Awesome, the guy has an incredible career ahead of him.

No disrespect to the Flyers though, they played their asses off in these playoffs. Barely made it into the post season to begin with, I'm sure few people expected them to make it this far, and they beat some pretty good teams to do it.

Huge congrats have to go to the hawks though. First cup win since what, 1961? So the last time they won it JFK was president, average price of a house was 12K, and Chubby Checker was a chart-topping superstar.

Last question; Any rioting and storefront smashing and looting going on in downtown Chicago last night? :D

[Hank_Heartland]

Originally Posted by CDSmith

I see Winnipeg boy Jonathan Toews got the Con Smythe. Awesome, the guy has an incredible career ahead of him.

No disrespect to the Flyers though, they played their asses off in these playoffs. Barely made it into the post season to begin with, I'm sure few people expected them to make it this far, and they beat some pretty good teams to do it.

Huge congrats have to go to the hawks though. First cup win since what, 1961? So the last time they won it JFK was president, average price of a house was 12K, and Chubby Checker was a chart-topping superstar.

Last question; Any rioting and storefront smashing and looting going on in downtown Chicago last night? :D

Nope, Maybe when they come home! No, our hockey fans only riot in the stands during the game The rest of the time it's just goodtimes!!! Now, if the Cubs should win the world series...that would be a different matter...the city might burn down again

Gooooooooooooo Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuubs

[PR_Glen]

Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho

Pretty cool

One thing I love about NHL - you never know who's gonna win, cause everyone's playing on 110 pct. in the playoffs

This year's underdog can be the champion in two years

oooohh forgot to throw in that Leaf clause in there ;)

i'm a fan, but definitely needed to be added in there!

[CDSmith]

Originally Posted by Hank_Heartland

Nope, Maybe when they come home! No, our hockey fans only riot in the stands during the game The rest of the time it's just goodtimes!!! Now, if the Cubs should win the world series...that would be a different matter...the city might burn down again

Gooooooooooooo Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuubs

No worries, it was more of a rhetorical question and a not so veiled shot at Montreal Canadians fans for their less than admirable behavior every time even a preliminary series is won much less the cup itself. Had the Habs won Lord Stanley they'd have turned St Catherines street into a smoking hole I'm sure. Meanwhile other cities like Chicago seem to have some class about them.



Anyway, regarding last night, I must say the final goal was insane. Mullet boy Kane just slid it in there somehow and no one but him seemed to know the game was over and they'd won the cup. Great watching it on the replay, him screaming down the ice ripping off his equipment like a lunatic, then the shot of the club owners pointing and not even knowing if the puck was in. lol

Then all the Flyers players standing around with their mouths open in disbelief.

The ref over at the officials box looking befuddled and dumbfounded.

Then the confirmation via net cam and the celebration begins... with 20,000 SILENT fans.

God bless hockey.

[Kenny B!]

Originally Posted by CDSmith

No worries, it was more of a rhetorical question and a not so veiled shot at Montreal Canadians fans for their less than admirable behavior every time even a preliminary series is won much less the cup itself. Had the Habs won Lord Stanley they'd have turned St Catherines street into a smoking hole I'm sure. Meanwhile other cities like Chicago seem to have some class about them.

The way the idiots act in our city when we win a hockey game is disgusting. Sadly we don't deserve the cup if it means anarchy and destruction.

Congrats to Chicago fans.

[madm1k3]

What a weak goal in overtime, Leighton must feel like shit today

[ErectMedia]

The video here shows all the highlights if anyone didn't see it, pretty funny how kane celebrates on the overtime goal and everyone else is like are you sure it went in?

http://blackhawks.nhl.com/

[CarlosTheGaucho]

I remember when the town where I was born won a title way back in 1995 - the greatest sports memory of my childhood.

It is a small industrial steelers town of 30 000 inhabitants, in 94/ 95 they were newcomers to the first league, first time ever the city had any first league sport team.

After the first quarter of the season, one place off the bottom, total underdogs and a team full of players that never made it in other clubs in the league, most of them marked as "not perspective" (including also a future Philladelphia Flyers and LA Kings goalkeeper Roman Cechmanek), plenty of them never even played the top league before.

The best audience in the league - every single game during the season was sold out, no fights and 110 pct. cheering, everybody lost their voice during the match.

Half the stadium full always already one hour before the start, and of course plumbrandy everywhere, then they made the playoffs, since they hadn't lost almost no game at home in the second half of the season and had a major streak at the end.

Then the play offs came, I watched in a thriller every single minute of those matches, one goal wins, overtime wins.

At the end they made it to the finals, which was a total sensation, first game lost 3:6 ,but then a 2:1, 3:1 and 2:1 in overtime (series were yet played on three winning matches) to become the first newcomer in the league to ever win the title.

The whole city filled the home stadium around 3 AM, once they were returning back out of the visitors stadium, mothers, kids, pensioners, everybody was there and it took about another week of major celebrations (well there's quite a know how how to celebrate in the East).

[96ukssob]

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[NetHorse]

I'll be at the parade tomorrow morning, anyone else on here going?

[elmy]

Hossa go!