Congratulations to your 2010 Stanley Cup Champs, the Chicago Blackhawks
by Hayley on Jun 9, 2010 10:26 PM PDT
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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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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.
"Where do you go from here, Dion?" "I go to Toronto."
Spreading that Calgary Flames, Montreal Expos, The U, and Orlando Magic love.
God help us all.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jun 10, 2010 8:11 PM PDT up 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.
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.
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.
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)
Terrific news: apparently Toews Schedule B bonuses included the Conn Smythe. That’s an additional $1.3M cap hit for next year for Chicago.
Some of those dumbass contract clauses I’ll never understand.
But that’s just more work for Stan Bowman I guess haha.
Where the Windsor Spitfires destroy the WHL.
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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