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Nick Lidstrom accepting the 2008 Stanley Cup. AMAZING
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Penguins fans face the bitter end and a summer of uncertainty
Puck Daddy —
The 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs revealed many things about the Pittsburgh Penguins. That Sidney Crosby would look like a 17-year-old mechanic at Jiffy Lube after four rounds of hockey. That Coach Michel Therrien can put on a "vintage" performance when he's trying to work the refs. That Marian Hossa can never again be called a playoff underperformer. And that somewhere in that blur of awful rebounds and misplays, Marc-Andre Fleury may just have a Stanley Cup championship in him. But the happiest discovery for us during these playoffs is how cool Penguins fans, by and large, really are. Not ...
You know, this has been bugging me-
American Hockey Fan —
-Can anybody give me a good reason why every year in recent memory Gary Bettman has been the guy on the ice awarding the Stanley Cup? And I know he is the commissioner, but still. Every year I see him do it, he takes what should be one of the best moments of the season, seeing the overjoyed captain raise the cup over his head in triumph, and if not actually spoils it, kind of taints it with not only his presence at all, but his goofy, stilted, stammering, ham-fisted speechifying. I mean, everybody loves the Stanley Cup. Everybody. Why taint that experience by including a guy who everybody hates? Does ANYBODY ...
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