Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup

[Vinilaa]

Hahahaha!!

Suck it up Edmonton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :kiss: :o

[Andriana Duskrose]

Hahahaha!!

Suck it up Edmonton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :kiss: :o

I am wondering Vinilaa, how many players on the Hurricanes are actually American? Hmmmmmm?

[Aindayen]

Didn't we hit Canada with a nuclear weapon. I must have been dreaming.

Ain

[Andriana Duskrose]

Didn't we hit Canada with a nuclear weapon. I must have been dreaming.

Ain

No, that would require Americans to be able to find Canada on a map first.

[Vidmer]

That was a really good series. I was kinda cheering for Edmonton, so of course they lost.

[Eomer]

Ah well. I'm of course really, super disapointed, being a fairly big hockey fan and all. But at the same time, I'm still mighty pleased the Oil was able to make it as far as they did, and that I was able to catch 4 games (four wins, two series eliminations against Detroit and San Jose, I must be good luck). A lot of older fans here might be somewhat jaded and spoiled with the teams of the 80's, but personally I don't remember a damn thing about any of those cups, so this was the first time except for '97 and '98 that the Oilers have had ANY success in the post season. It's just unfortunate they didn't pull it off in the end, because if they'd had it would have broken a lot of records and been a lot of firsts, and would probably go down in memory as one of the most unlikely and great runs of all time. They faced so much adversity throughout the playoffs, after barely making them, it's really quite a feat to take the final series to 7 games.

I'll have a ton of great memories of this run, that's for sure. Running around at Sasquatch trying to find out the score of game 5 against Anaheim, then spending the rest of the evening running around, drinking, cheering, and laughing maniacally with other Oilers fans that they'd actually made the finals. THE FINALS. Game 6 of the finals, watching it with 20 close friends jammed into the living room/kitchen of the houseboat we were on, after spending two hours trying to get the satellite dish lined up properly. Driving like an asshole across the whole city after game 4 against San Jose to make my own playoff game. It goes on and on.

Thanks Oil!

[Fairplay]

Cam Ward - MVP - Canadian
Eric Staal - Leading Scorer - Canadian

Plus half the other good players are canadian too.

[Eomer]

That much is a given. It's pretty much a proven fact that for any team to win the Stanley Cup, the majority of their players will be Canadian, and their very best players will also be as well. In the past 20 years, the Conn Smythe (playoff MVP) has been awarded to a non-Canadian maybe twice (Brian Leetch and Nik Lidstrom that I can think of). Both Carolina and Edmonton would have had over half the lineups consisting of good old Canuck boys (and with Cam Ward, Commodore, and Pisani all having great playoffs, Edmonton and surrounding area is pretty well represented on either team).

Of course, you can build your team primarily out of Europeans, and pull a 2006 New York Rangers. I'm not gonna pull a Don Cherry and say that all Europeans are wimps who disapear when the playoffs arrive, that's not fair. But it certainly does seem the Canadian boys rise to the occasion much better. Skill only goes so far in the NHL playoffs, it takes a lot more than that.

Sergei Samsonov, where were you the last two rounds?

[Gwaar]

Heh, the rangers were on a 7 game tear before the olympics and laid the biggest egg after. Go figure... Having 8 players in the olympics really hurt them, especially lundquist (their starting goalie) playing almost all of them, he was never the same after.

Great series. Since I wasn't really rooting for anyone I really enjoyed each and every game. So glad it went 7 games though. At least next season starts up again in what, 3 months? I hate to admit it but I miss hockey already. Best sport ever imo. You got to see it live just one time and your hooked.

PS: The euro players are all the rage with the new rules.

[Eomer]

Not really. Look at the playoff scoring race: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/statistics/?season=playoff&players=skaters

There's only three or so Euro's out of the top 20 in scoring, and two of those from the Oilers who played the full four rounds.

But even in regular season scoring, 6 of the top 10 in points were Canadian.

I do agree that rules benefit faster skating, more skilled players. But where I disagree is that that somehow benefits Europeans more.

[Vinilaa]

I am wondering Vinilaa, how many players on the Hurricanes are actually American? Hmmmmmm?

Hah!! You win this one Hussy... but you'll get yours just you wait!

hehehe.

Aul: The Hurricanes have a good shot at winning the Stanley Cup!

Me: Huh? Southerners can't play Hockey. WTH?

Aul: Well they're mostly Canadians...

:o :D :eek:

[Rhedd]

I am still waiting for my zebra...

[Vinilaa]

I am still waiting for my zebra...

Doh!

:camera:

[Andriana Duskrose]

Hah!! You win this one Hussy... but you'll get yours just you wait!

Oooooh! That sounds hot! So do I get mine at your place or mine? :kiss:

[Eomer]

God bless the Onion:

Carolina Residents Confused, Terrified As Victorious Hurricane Players Riot In Streets
June 22, 2006 | Issue 42•25

RALEIGH, NC—Only hours after the Carolina Hurricanes won the NHL Championship Monday night in a hard-fought Game 7 against the Edmonton Oilers, North Carolina Gov. Michael Easley mobilized the National Guard to contain over two dozen members of what he described as "some sort of depraved, violent, heretofore unheard-of gang calling themselves the Hurricanes."


Hurricanes defenseman Bret Hedican celebrates his team's victory in the quiet, empty streets of Raleigh, causing shocked residents to wonder what is going on.

"These strange men came out of nowhere with absolutely no warning," Easley said of the Stanley Cup-winning Hurricanes, who emptied garbage cans, overturned vehicles and set them aflame, looted local businesses, and frightened hundreds of citizens out of their sleep. "Nobody had ever heard of them before. No one knows what they want. And nobody knows why they were acting so crazy."

Police chief Jane Perlov is reporting that the NHL club, which was known as the Hartford Whalers until moving to North Carolina in 1997 and has struggled to attract much local attention, "somehow gained access to Raleigh's RBC Center earlier Monday, engaged in some sort of ritualistic violence involving sticks and nets, and then proceeded to drink heavily before heading to their cars."

"Following their leader—a man Canadian officials have identified as one Rod Brind'Amour—a group of between 26 and 30 heavily bearded Caucasians drove onto the Raleigh Chapel Hill Expressway at speeds exceeding 120 mph, causing several traffic accidents and overturning one 16-wheeler, which eventually exploded," Perlov said. "The members of the gang we're calling 'The Hurricanes' then exited their vehicles and descended on Hillsborough Street, where they entered the storied Velvet Cloak Inn, woke up guests by throwing alarm clocks, chairs, and mattresses out the windows, and then promptly burned them."

The Hurricanes then proceeded to loot cherished Raleigh establishments such as Brother's Pizza, Snoopy's Hot Dogs, and the Waffle House, leaving many business owners, who had never seen or heard of the players before, confused and frightened.

"We couldn't believe what was happening," said Sam Weber, owner of Playmakers, a Raleigh sports bar. "I still don't understand it. We had a decent crowd here to watch the 1982 North Carolina vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship game on ESPN Classic when out of nowhere a lamppost comes crashing through the front window. Then these huge pasty white guys, all wearing, like, matching sweaters, run in screaming like madmen and holding this giant planter over their heads, which they demanded I fill with beer. They invited all my customers to join them, but we were too shocked, terrified and disoriented to even move, so the gang got angry and stole four of my big-screen televisions."

"They weren't from around here, I'll tell you that much," Weber added. "When the police arrived, no one could remember having seen a single one of them before."

From there, the Hurricanes traveled to Raleigh's historic Pullen Park, where they took turns riding the cherished Pullen Park Carousel with the Stanley Cup. When no townspeople joined them on the carousel, the players began to grow morose, and demonstrated their displeasure by removing the horses from their mountings and carrying them back to their cars.

"I had never seen a scarier group of people," said Raleigh resident Max Sherwood, who was enjoying a quiet, calm Raleigh evening in the park with his mother. "They all had scraggily looking beards and they reeked of sweat and alcohol. They were screaming things like 'We fucking did it!' and 'Stanley!' When I politely asked them who Stanley was and not to cuss in front of my mother, well, that's when they came after us."

Sherwood suffered a mild concussion as well as facial lacerations after being forced to drink warm champagne out of "some type of weird birdbath."

In an attempt to assuage the confusion and fears of many Raleigh citizens, the Carolina Hurricanes public-relations team, in partnership with the National Hockey League, has issued a statement saying that the "gang" had in fact been playing "hockey," and that North Carolina did, in fact, have a hockey team. The team has also set up a crisis center offering free first aid to anybody who was injured during the riots and free counseling for anyone who wants to learn about the sport of hockey, its rules, its history, and possibly buy discount season tickets for next year.

However, most locals have yet to come to grips with the events of this past week.

"This is a sad, shameful day, not only for Raleigh but for the state of North Carolina," Mayor Charles Meeker said Wednesday. "I still do not understand exactly what caused these 'Hurricanes' to hold their strange celebration in our streets. But I think I speak for all of North Carolina when I say I hope that they never repeat whatever it is again."

© Copyright 2006, Onion, Inc. All rights reserved.
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[Eomer]

So five days after leading our team to the finals, and after committing to the team and city for a 5 year contract at 6.25 million a year, Chris Pronger wants a trade out cause his twat of a wife doesn't like Edmonton. Maybe he doesn't either, but I doubt it, it's his high society wife. She lived in Edmonton for a couple months then moved back to St. Louis.

Either way, congratulations Chris Pronger, you will now take Mike Comrie's place as the most hated former Oiler. That's saying something!

[Eomer]

Nice Chris, next time keep your pronger in your fucking pants: http://blog.sportscolumn.com/story/2006/6/29/132746/692