It's Coming Home...

[MrPrax]

The Canadian Forum Sends It's Regrets...Early

Boo-Yah!!

You Can't Touch This...



The Team that going to do It...

Boo-Yah!!

Picture this

The Hurricanes would love to have an opportunity to spend some time with the well-traveled Stanley Cup

Worshiped on the one hand, abused on the other. NHL players refuse to touch it until they earn it. Then, once they earn it, all bets are off. Meet Lord Stanley's Cup, the legendary column of hardware that is handed over to the NHL champion at the end of each season.

Once the cup is awarded, the superstition and the reverence for the 113-year-old trophy often turn into an overflow of hugs, kisses, slobber, joy, tears and some unintentional and good-natured abuse.

The Carolina Hurricanes and the Edmonton Oilers are hoping to get their hands on it as they start the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs tonight at the RBC Center.

Unlike trophies in other professional sports that sit in temperature-controlled, hermetically sealed glass cases, the Stanley Cup spends a lot of time out in the real world, much of it in the possession of the league's title holders.

Raleigh News and Observer

[GreenInNC]

1. Home?

How many teams are in Canada now? I believe home is the US now.

[mzteris]

2. WHAT A GAME!!!!!!!!!

that is all.

I'd say more but I have post-game laryngitis!

:D

[MrPrax]

3. We'll Get It back...

Go Oilers Go...

The Hurricanes got lucky...

[struggle4progress]

4. Maybe now's a good time to negotiate. How about an even-up trade?

The Cup for Vancouver Island, say? :D

[supernova]

5. Are you absolutely certain of that?

It IS HURRICANE SEASON, afterall!!!

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

6. If ya wants that Cup, maybe ya oughta start negotiatin fast -- cuz ..

.. there's just no tellin what'll happen to it down here: might could accidental-like get recycled with all the beer cans the mornin after a big party or end up welded to somebody's 1952 pickup as a hood ornament, ya know ...

So best cut a deal while ya can! Just how important IS that cup to ya?

[MrPrax]

7. OK We're Back...

Made a few adjustments to our playbook, replaced Roloston and delayed Carolina's flight...

And we are still taking the Cup back home!!!


Hockey Primer for New Fans

Now for Carolina's 'newer' hockey fans who might be getting interested in hockey --getting a short-handed goal scored against YOU in the overtime period of a Stanley Cup playoff game is really really bad and embarassing by any sports standards.

Also for newer fans of the game down in Raleigh...it's not a ball that bounces, but a puck that slides and the 'net' stays on ground--you don't hang the net off a pole with a basket and you don't get 3 points if you get a 'goal' from outside of the blue line. And no, cars are not allowed on the ice, even though a hockey rink kinda looks like oval.

But you can drink beer :-)

Have Fun!!

Who needs Gas, when you got OIL

Oh...forgot...the Other Hockey Thread

[Richard Steele]

8. Ahem.....

[struggle4progress]

9. I done warned ya to try and cut a deal whilst ya could.

[MrPrax]

10. Congrats!!!!

Hard Fought and Fairly Won...

THANK YOU to a Great Bunch of Hockey Fans for a Great Series!!!!...

We Salute You

[citizen snips]

11. I admire your sportsmanship.

[struggle4progress]

12. Here! Have a beer!

:beer: