Congratulations to your 2010 Stanley Cup Champs, the Chicago Blackhawks

by Hayley on Jun 9, 2010 10:26 PM PDT Comment 22 comments

PHILADELPHIA - JUNE 09: Jonathan Toews #19 hoists the Stanley Cup after teammate Patrick Kane #88 scored the game-winning goal in overtime to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 and win the Stanley Cup in Game Six of the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the Wachovia Center on June 9, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Andre Ringuette/Getty Images)

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2 months ago: PHILADELPHIA - JUNE 09: Jonathan Toews #19 hoists the Stanley Cup after teammate Patrick Kane #88 scored the game-winning goal in overtime to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 and win the Stanley Cup in Game Six of the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the Wachovia Center on June 9, 2010 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Andre Ringuette/Getty Images)

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There are few things more spectacular than watching a team celebrate its Stanley Cup victory. Watching each and every Blackhawks player and staff member share the trophy amongst family and friends with big goofy smiles on their faces and their eyes brimming with tears is yet another reminder of why I love this game. Jonathan Toews, the youngest player ever to join the "Triple Gold Club," the inspirational rags-to-riches story of Dustin Byfuglien, and Marian Hossa finally getting his chance to hoist the cup in his third consecutive Finals appearance--these are just a few of the reasons why this cup win, signifying the end of a 49-year drought for the Blackhawks, is so special. Congratulations Chicago, to say you deserve this is an understatement. I can only hope to feel what you're all feeling some day.

With that in mind, October can't come soon enough.

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I liked that Toews gave the Cup to Hossa next, just seemed… right.

by Parallex on Jun 9, 2010 11:02 PM PDT reply actions

Agreed

I still don’t like this team though. But considering about everything went wrong for me in sports this year, it’s fitting that the one team I didn’t want to win it all did.

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by KingJafi on Jun 10, 2010 6:04 AM PDT up reply actions

I can’t wait to get the ‘Ugly Sister’ chant started the next time Buffs in the ’Dome.

by Domebeers.com on Jun 10, 2010 10:38 AM PDT reply actions

What if he's playing for Calgary?

by SmellOfVictory on Jun 10, 2010 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

God help us all.

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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 10, 2010 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Now this marathon of a season is finally over.

And I thinks it fair to say the best team won the cup. F*UK Washington. I’ll stomach the Hawks before the Caps.

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by CofRed on Jun 10, 2010 11:01 AM PDT reply actions

I chuckle at the fact that the Blackhawks are at the cap with 14 players signed.

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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 10, 2010 11:20 AM PDT reply actions

Oh yeah, their Cap situation is a real shitshow. This was their year… no more riding Toews, Kane, and Keith’s ultra-value deals for supreme depth.

Still, you gotta figure that Sharp & Versteeg are the most likely to go and that they’ll garner a 1st round pick or equivalent prospect each (ala the Barker deal with Minn). Find someone else to take Campbell and/or Huet off your hands (Or just bury Huet in the minors) and you’re most of the way out. Sure you lose your awesome depth but you’ll have such a huge amount of ELC talent banked that you’ll probably have it right back in a few years time assuming that you don’t screw the pooch developmentally.

by Parallex on Jun 10, 2010 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions

I don’t like Chicago, Kane and Byfuglien are world-class dinks. And their success, while earned by the players, isn’t owned by their management. It’s a shitshow in that front office.

That said I’m glad Hossa won the Cup. He was a bit of a money-hungry dink in his prime too (still is if you tink about it), but a terrific player on the ice.

by R O on Jun 10, 2010 11:28 AM PDT reply actions

Agreed. Burish can die in a fire as well.

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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 10, 2010 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions

How is Hossa “money-hungry”? He left millions on the table to come to Edmonton for a chance at a Cup. Even Pittsburgh offered him a better deal than Detroit… he guessed wrong. If he really was “money-hungry”, he’d be playing out his 10 year, $90M deal in eTown.

Same goes for Kovalchuk. People bash him for not taking the $$ in Atlanta… well wouldn’t that have made him “money-hungry”? The fact that he didn’t says otherwise.

by RossCreek on Jun 12, 2010 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions

Search for some of his comments when he was an RFA in ’05. He was a douche.

There’s also that fat contract of his in Chicago (talking about real dollars here) that is pretty much guaranteed to screw the Hawks over at some point (though obviously if it helped them win the Cup, and I would say it did, then it’s worth it)

by R O on Jun 14, 2010 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions

I like Byfuglien, Keith, Sharp and Toews.

I lost some of my hatred for Kane as well.

by Jeremywilhelm on Jun 10, 2010 12:04 PM PDT reply actions

Terrific news: apparently Toews Schedule B bonuses included the Conn Smythe. That’s an additional $1.3M cap hit for next year for Chicago.

by R O on Jun 10, 2010 12:52 PM PDT reply actions

Some of those dumbass contract clauses I’ll never understand.

But that’s just more work for Stan Bowman I guess haha.

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by CofRed on Jun 10, 2010 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions

i prefer to call him “Stanely Cup Bowman”

by walkinvisible on Jun 10, 2010 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions

HOLY SHIT WI USED CAPITALS WHAT IS HAPENNING

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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 10, 2010 2:59 PM PDT up reply actions

i actually caught myself using caps to start sentences over at mine today. it was weird. i think i’m either overtired or overcaffeinated. apologies.

by walkinvisible on Jun 10, 2010 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Good. For a second there I thought the Earth’s core had stopped. (I cannot believe I wasted part of my life on that piece of excrement they called a movie.)

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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 10, 2010 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions

if we’re talking about the same movie, then we’re talking about my birthday. write it on your calendar, i expect cake.

by walkinvisible on Jun 10, 2010 11:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Does the Ship & Anchor make cake? How about I wire transfer you 5 dollars and you can get the kind you want.

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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 11, 2010 12:55 AM PDT up reply actions

either/or. you’ve got a couple months to decide.

by walkinvisible on Jun 11, 2010 9:22 AM PDT up reply actions

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