prior to the lockout and the leaguewide fiscal controls yes, because he was a cheapass.

but with fiscal controls he's been just fine.

Galaxy: Yup. But when the salary cap floor came around, he had to start spending..

Classy move by the Canuck fans cheering their team off the ice despite the game 7 loss.. classier then some of our fans and classier than either team on the ice.

I didn't know Zach Galfinakis played goalie for the B's!

*boos Gary Bettman* :D

It wouldn't be a trophy presentation without Booing Bettman.

What are the chanting?

Bettman Sucks

Oh that Cam Nerrry.

Walk away Bettman, walk away.

Recchi drops the first F bomb

Best goaltending performance in the playoffs ever? Gotta at least be in the conversation right? 2 shutouts in game 7's. 5 overall. Absolutely nuts.

You would think the owners would realize that the guy who represents and leads their sport (and money) is the most disliked guy and they would get a new guy or woman.

Best save percentage, most saves made, yeah, I'd say at least close.

Yeah has to be...Bernie Parent had 4 shutouts in 74-75 with a 1.88 GAA. Thomas' save percentage was better.

Woo hoo!! Go New England!

First team ever to win three game sevens and win the cup. 25 Post season games. Just... wow.

Really NBC? You can't show it a little longer?

Does the NHL actually own the Stanley Cup or is it owned by a trust that has given the NHL the rights to award it?

wikiepedia:
The regulations set down by Lord Stanley call for two Trustees, who had the sole, joint right to govern the Cup and the conditions of its awarding until 1947, when they ceded control to the NHL. While the original regulations allow for a Trustee to resign, to date, all Cup Trustees have served until their deaths; a deceased Trustee is replaced by the surviving Trustee.


To date, nine men have served as Trustees of the Stanley Cup:

ugh. stupid Canucks fans over turned a vehicle which exploded, apparently. Sad to see the chuckleheads (not Canucks fans I should say, just looking for a reason to riot) try to ruin it..

Switch to Versus

LIVE VIDEO:

Nucks fans going nuts

Why are there no Mounties on Horseback?

:lol:

VS still sucked. I want to see the celebrating, not listening and looking at the talking heads.


BTW, stay classy Canuck fans. Destroy your beautiful city by turning cars over and starting street fires.

Absolutely go to the parade.

I went to the Steelers parades in 2006 and 2009, and you've probably gone to the Pats parades.

But somethng different about the Pens one. Maybe because it was during the summer? Granted, you also have the C's.

The Pens winning (on a Friday) and the weekend and parade on Monday are a fond memory I shared with my kids. The Steelers parades, I was working in town, I'd just cut out of work for a few hours.

Pens parade, I took a personal day, drove to the trolley with the kids and went into town and had a BLAST.

[I probably shared this in the 2009 version of this thread, but the best memory of the whole weekend happened that Sunday. Took the kids to the arena to get tshirts for the parade the following day. After buying some stuff in the team store, we are back outside near where the player parking is. Hundreds of people waiting around hoping to catch some of the players. About 2 minutes later, this gangly looking guy wearing baggy shorts, a tshirt, hat pulled really low and sandals comes walking out. Eventually some of the people on the level of the parking (we were up above) start cheering and clapping as they can see who it is. The guy takes his keys and beeps the remote, the trunk opens. Guy reaches into the trunk...pulls out the Conn Smythe. It's Malkin. Malkin is my son's favorite player, he's going nuts. Geno waving to everyone.

Driving home I'm thinking....Who the hell keeps the Conn Smythe in his trunk?? I pictured him going to Best Buy earlier that morning to pick out a new flat screen, and when the Geek Squad tried to load it in his trunk, he said "Oh, here...let me move that trophy...it's just a little something I picked up Friday night"]

I find that to be awesome.

LOL - yeah I'll be going to the parade. Be nice if it was Friday and not Saturday (which they're saying it probably will be).

I've been to all the others. Course those I was working right on the parade route...I'm not anymore, but that's cool.

It was both one of the funniest and most surreal things I've seen. They were in Detroit Friday and I don't think came home until Saturday. I assume the trophy was in some overhead on the flight back.

Congrats to Boston and the Bruins fans on FOFC. One thing I've enjoyed ever since Carolina won is seeing teams win and the joy that it brings to them and their fans. It always brings back good memories of 2006 for me. :D

Good to see a pair of good ex-Canes win, as well: Recchi gets another one and Seidenberg gets his first.

Heh.

I feel bad for Lugano. You could see it in his face while waiting for the handshake line.

There are plenty on the Canadian news feeds...suckers!!! :)

Re: Jeremy Jacobs

The Bruins are Stanley Cup Champions! I can't believe it! Timmy Thomas was amazing!

I can't view/link it now at work, but I can only imagine the next DGB after Brown's performance covering the riots last night.

Best picture from the riots

Vancouver lookin like Snake Plissken ran through it.

Now that's a riot!

http://imageftw.com/uploads/20110616/kingoftheworld.jpg

I think you mean LeBroungo.

That was the image I tried to show but I guess I haven't got posting on the iPad down yet.

I'm really happy for those hardcore bruin fans in boston. They're a smaller, more distinct group, maybe a little more working class on the whole than the average boston sports fan. You can spot them too, the guys who watched the Bruins in bars and wore bruins' jerseys over the last few decades when the B's were boston's fat ugly irrelevant younger stepson. Those guys are cool and they're living it up now.

At the Revolution game last night, they kept breaking in with scoring updates for the Bruins. I'm pretty sure there was more cheering for the Bruins at Gillette last night than there was for the Revs :)

Yikes to the GIF.

When can Game 7s have their penalties back?

First picture of the cup at a private party - from today.

Nice ass.

Do you helicopters flying around the city spying on the players?

Damned if I know. I stole it off some facebook group page for like "Bruins Stanley Cup Champs."

There's a couple guys (notably I think Shawn Thornton) who live in downtown Boston, so this is likely a party at one of their places...I assume with a bunch of players, because if I'd just won that thing I wouldn't be ready for people to start taking it more than an arm's length from me yet.

There is a NHL rep that is with the Cup at all times.