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Game. Set. Stanley.
by IwoCPO on 06/04/08 at 11:09 PM ET
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Yes.
11.
Congratulations Wing fans.
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It’s good to be a Wings fan! Let’s enjoy this one!
Posted by Mike from Chicago on 06/04/08 at 10:17 PM ET
What a great end to a great season. No doubt we made a huge down payment on this thing in February when we learned to stick together through tough times and not let things snowball.
Some people thought the one word difference that would define this series between the Penguins and the Wings would be “Age” . We just changed their word.
Experience.
Posted by J.J. from kansas on 06/04/08 at 10:18 PM ET
CONGRATS GUYS YOU EARNED, YOU WERE BETTER FOR A HUGE PART OF THE SERIES
At least my team went down fighting
Posted by Evilpens on 06/04/08 at 10:21 PM ET
Aw man, changeup the post…
The best part of this? No more Pensblogiots trolling A2Y!
Posted by AndrewFromAnnArbor on 06/04/08 at 10:22 PM ET
You’ll get yours, Evilpens… just lay off the ALL-CAPS.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 06/04/08 at 10:22 PM ET
Just bummed & not thinking, Congrats
Posted by Evilpens on 06/04/08 at 10:23 PM ET
Well done Pens. Not quite your time yet. I’ll be cheering for you next season.
Posted by Nate A from Dark side of the moon on 06/04/08 at 10:23 PM ET
I now don’t have to hear the name Crosby nor the word obstruction the rest of the summer. Kudos to Pittsburg, despite the giftwrap efforts of the officials. They really came on the back end of the series, particularly MAF. The pressure that kid handled at that age amazes me. I mean, the only thing I was stressed about at that age was exams.
And I swear, if I meet any guy named Michel this summer, he is getting hit. I don’t care if its on top of a 14,000 foot mountain, he’s getting a 2,000 foot cross check.
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 06/04/08 at 10:24 PM ET
Hello again Lord Stanley! Thank you my Red Wings. Many thanks to the “19” here. Great season Chief. Thanks for everything.
US Open next week....
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 06/04/08 at 10:24 PM ET
Credit to the Pens. After game 2, I was listing off Western Teams that could have beaten them in the finals… That list grew significantly shorter as this series progressed. I would not be surprised to see the Cup back in the Mellon Arena (or the new arena they’re building) in the upcoming years.
Posted by J.J. from kansas on 06/04/08 at 10:25 PM ET
Thank god for crackberrys!
“The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board. Eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven...”
Go Wings! Way to go, Hank!
Posted by hap from a bar somewhere in gr on 06/04/08 at 10:25 PM ET
Thanks for the ride A2Y. The stress train was much appreicated...more than words can express. Hope to catch ya in 08…
Stanely Cup Champs should be making a road trip to the RBC ("The Canes” in Raleigh,NC). Invitation, to all to join us for tail gating and a kicking A** game.
Posted by Wings Fan From Raleigh on 06/04/08 at 10:26 PM ET
Wow.
I’m still shaking from the tension and drinking celebratory sparkling apple cider straight from the bottle. 
Awesome series.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/04/08 at 10:26 PM ET
Congrats, guys. What a series.
Posted by Pensblog on 06/04/08 at 10:31 PM ET
For Grandpa. He left in February and we sucked. My freaking Uncle (who I almost never talk to) called me after the first goal tonight. We did the same thing me and Gpa did almost every game - a call after each Wings goal. After we won he called and said “To Grandpa - here here.”
So - To Grandpa! He enjoyed all 19 of us because we don’t get good hockey news in Georgia. I printed A2Y posts, Deteoit Free Press and other articles for him in his last days. He especially enjoyed the glossery Bill. And that game you gave me your log in to NHL.tv was the last Wings game he saw… Even if it was on a laptop it brought a smial to his face.
Thank you everyone.
Posted by eyesris from Chestertown, MD on 06/04/08 at 10:32 PM ET
Thanks to all The 19.
This series was gift wrapped repeatedly for Gary’s Baby Boy and his mates, but the Wings continually overcame the 8 on 6.
Don’t forget folks the NHL Awards program, as painful as the MC always is - it’s the guy from CBC.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:33 PM ET
my god Babs is layin the praise on Baghdad Bob Therrien
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:35 PM ET
Chief, Baroque, Paul, Dub, Jennifer, Andrew, Osrt.....everyone else....
Congrats and thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This season was awesome, and you all helped to make memories for me. It’s never just a game, or just a trophy, it’s all about the friends that grind through the crap WITH you that make it a trip worth taking.
Thanks Wings...my liver can now heal, my sphincter can loosen, and my heart-rate can be somewhere closer to normal!!!
‘til we defend....Thanks Gary. Ass. Quit touching the friggin’ cup you prick...it isn’t yours. Go touch Cindy or Pierre, they’re all yours.
Posted by Scott H from Kalamazoo on 06/04/08 at 10:36 PM ET
Thanks for all the awesome posts and live blogs, chief. I love your writing and this community, even if I mostly lurk. I was riding the Hasek all the way with you guys.
I’ve given out some dedications to the Wings, feel free to add your own if you like.
http://dirtygames.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/your-stanley-cup-champions-the-detroit-red-wings/
for Niklas Kronwall, who realized that it’s much more fun to hurt other people than hurt himself. And who will be putting fear into the heart of opposing forwards for years to come.
for Pavel Datsyuk, who doesn’t need to speak proper English with hands like that.
for Darren McCarty, who represents the best and worst of all of us, and got the second chance we all deserve when we need it.
for Kris Draper, who gave that second chance to his old friend, and trusted when he could easily have turned his back.
for Jiri Hudler, Brett Lebda and Valtteri Filppula, three kids who are now men. Damn fine men at that.
Posted by Jayo from Toronto on 06/04/08 at 10:37 PM ET
Thanks for the ride A2Y. The stress train was much appreicated...more than words can express. Hope to catch ya in 08…
Stanely Cup Champs should be making a road trip to the RBC ("The Canes” in Raleigh,NC). Invitation, to all to join us for tail gating and a kicking A** game.
Posted by Wings Fan From Raleigh on 06/04 at 11:26 PM
I was in Raleigh for Game 3 in 2002, the triple OT jobbie. I got back to Richmond at 0530 Sunday morning! Freakin Igor Larionov at 0105 am!
If the Wings come to Raleigh next year keep in touch I’ll try to come down.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:38 PM ET
Helmer looks slightly like a hillbilly....but man, the kid is a warrior. Super humble too.
Posted by Osrt on 06/04/08 at 10:39 PM ET
Thank you Chief, for providing better coverage of these playoffs than any news source could have. It was great being part of the 19. Even though I’m not an active commenter, reading your posts was awesome.
In celebration, I made this for you. It may have been prettier in the hands of someone more capable, but I couldn’t not jump on the idea:
Posted by jman077 from North Detrooooit on 06/04/08 at 10:39 PM ET
I hate this iPhone keyboard some times. Too lazy to break out the laptop…
Posted by eyesris from Chestertown, MD on 06/04/08 at 10:40 PM ET
Jman, pro or not, it looks damn fine to me. Well done.
Posted by Nate A from Dark side of the moon on 06/04/08 at 10:41 PM ET
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS~
The city of Pittsburgh can offically kiss my ass. Their fans were rude and obnoxious with a majority of them booing the Stanley Cup Champs and the Conn Smyth winner.
Sour grapes from a bunch of whiners…....kid of like Crosby and Therrien? Yes, I guess the whole city if full of friggin whiners.
Anyway! Awesome job by the boyz tonite wrapping it up and ending it for good. As always they were on a man disadvantage because everyone now knows the Pens were exposed and had no chance at even strength. I swear I am so glad that the “7 on 5’s” are over…..it’s really hard to win a championship when you are playing the 5 guys on the ice plus 2 of the zebras each game.
WAY TO GO RED WINGS!!!
Cindy Crosby can do whay she does best…........SUCK IT.
Posted by WINGS_FAN_IN_KC on 06/04/08 at 10:43 PM ET
The best of the internet - forming connections between disparate people all over the world.
It was a fun year, and having friends to laugh with, cry with, scream with, plan animal sacrifices with, and commiserate with made it all the more fun.
What a season. It’s going to be so boring to go back to normal life - but nice to have my heart rate slow down and breathing return to normal!
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 06/04/08 at 10:44 PM ET
Thanks to all of the “19”!!
It has been a fabulous ride, made all that much more better because I got share it all with you Bitches!!
What a frigging ride!!
Posted by Jeff OKWingnut from Hockey Netherworld on 06/04/08 at 10:45 PM ET
CONGRATULATIONS Red Wings + fans
The better team won.
At least the Pens made you sweat a bit at the end of the series & right up to 0:00 on the clock, tonight.
Hey, let’s do this again next year!!! [with my team winning, though!!!!]
again, Congrats.
Posted by dr. turkleton on 06/04/08 at 10:46 PM ET
Since 1997 Bitches
Red Wings 16, Eastern Conference 3
Domination Bitches.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:46 PM ET
It’s going to be so boring to go back to normal life..
I’ll be happy to have some of them “billable hours” again.
Although...maybe the Hasek is available for the US Open.
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 06/04/08 at 10:48 PM ET
Thank you, Chief. Thank you to all of you silly Red Wings fans out there. I remember listening to Bruce Martyn on WJR as a youngster on the way home from the Findlay Hancock County rec center or the Tam O’ Shanter rink in Sylvania outside of Toledo. Or going to watch friends play in the periodic “Hockey Night in Detroit” pickup game at the Joe on off nights. Back then I thought that I might not ever see a Wings Stanely Cup. I was at sea in the Navy in 1997, but we pulled in in time to see game four and McCarty’s brilliant strike. For game three I had the chief IC or ops petty officer wire armed forces radio into my headset. The next morning the captain wondered what all the noise coming from the bridge was about.
In 2002 I got to watch game three with my Dad, and watched game five and the Cup with close friends from southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio.
God bless all of you. God bless Detroit, may that city one day emerge from its economic funk.
God bless the Detroit Red Wings. Stanley Cup Champions for the fourth time in eleven years. Eleven-time Cup Champions all time.
Posted by TDeters on 06/04/08 at 10:49 PM ET
Super Job Jman 77 !!
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:49 PM ET
‘84 Tigers
‘89 Pistons
‘90 Pistons
‘97 Red Wings
‘98 Red Wings
‘02 Red Wings
‘04 Pistons
‘08 Red Wings
DEEEEEEEEETROIT
CHAAAAAAAMPIONSHIPS!
(in my lifetime, that is)
Posted by cephalopod from Chicago, on the poop deck, not over it yet on 06/04/08 at 10:50 PM ET
Game # 6 Wings 13-0 since 1996!
The parade will begin at 11:00 a.m. Friday, June 6 in downtown Detroit.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Posted by Rumbear from Sandy Eggo on 06/04/08 at 10:51 PM ET
Turk - Thanks for showing up. Balls, but you owed us for the crap!
Ah Houston, where’s that problem now? (turk after Game 5)
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:52 PM ET
Evilpens and Dr. Turk - You have class showing up here. I know that had to be a difficult loss. Your team fought right until the very end and never gave up. Kudos to them. What a series!
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 06/04/08 at 10:54 PM ET
I wish so much that I could come home for the parade.
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 06/04/08 at 10:54 PM ET
I forgot to add Pensblog in there too. You guys made me laugh a lot. What a series. Congrats to the Penguins on their amazing year.
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 06/04/08 at 10:55 PM ET
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations to all you Wings’ fans from Moscow, Russia!
Posted by Hawk from Moscow, Russia on 06/04/08 at 10:57 PM ET
T Deters that’s outstanding.
I left Michigan in 1976 and now after 20 years in the Army and 12 more years in Virginia I’m still a 100% fan of all things Michigan. My kids visit Michigan but they know where their roots are.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 10:57 PM ET
Every Cup is just as sweet as the last one.
Congratulations to the Wings and their fans. Oh, I guess that’s us. I discovered this blog somewhat belatedly and am impressed daily by the passion and erudition of the fans here.
And congratulations also to the Penguins (who could have folded and didn’t) and all their fans, especially them who stuck around for the Cup presentation and hand-offs when they had to be feeling almost as bad (no way they felt worse) as I did after Game 5, which far exceeds the Michigan-Colorado football game and the Piston inbound giveaway against Boston as my personal worse losses ever as a Detroit sports fan. I’ve been on f***in sucide watch since Monday after about 2 1/2 hours sleep. Subsequently my internet activity has been minimal because of the danger represented by the cord on the mouse.
Tonight I discovered a solution to playoff anxiety- a Xanax before the game and one more during the second period, washed down with the better part of a 6 pack. I think it’s the only thing that kept me from destroying something after that cheap call on a very weak hook that had absolutely no effect on the play that was called only to create end-of-game drama with the clock winding down resulting in a Pittsburgh PP goal. After letting the two teams skate the entire period that obligatory penalty and it’s potential effect on the game and the series was predictable, I guess, but I really didn’t need that stress after Game 5.
Oh, one more thing. F**k you Bettman. The only thing that would have made this better would have been to have won at home and had boos and octopi rain down upon you.
Posted by BobS. on 06/04/08 at 10:58 PM ET
Hawk in Moscow, amazing 8 in the morning. It’s unbelievable I’m so happy I could just shit! Thanks for showing up.
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 11:00 PM ET
I think it is finally hitting me that we won. I’m crying. My daughter had me play “We are the Champions” and all I could think of was Vladdy.
We ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
Enjoy it boys, you earned it.
Enjoy it A2Y 19, we have been up and down this season and boy was it worth it!
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 06/04/08 at 11:01 PM ET
Great series, great effort by Pittsburgh, great Cup!
GO WINGS!!!!!!
Posted by Django on 06/04/08 at 11:03 PM ET
The parade will begin at 11:00 a.m. Friday, June 6 in downtown Detroit.
I love it! A2Y parade party anyone?
Posted by Nate A from Dark side of the moon on 06/04/08 at 11:03 PM ET
after that cheap call on a very weak hook
Posted by BobS. on 06/04 at 11:58 PM
Bob that call was just incredible BS. The fix was really in on this series. What made that call even more incredulous...Datsyuk was ripped right off his skates at center ice but no call, which led to the last chance by the Pens. What BS.
Gary.Ass
Posted by RWBill from jabbing a six inch sewing needle into my eye. on 06/04/08 at 11:04 PM ET
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