- Milan Lucic played with a broken toe and a sinus infection and still won the Cup. That's a champ.
- The Montreal Canadiens signed Max Pacioretty to a two-year deal. We're sure that he tweeted about it.
- The Perfect Human will be back in Detroit for one more season. It will be his 20th.
- The salary cap will be raised to 64 million dollars for the 2011-2012 season. Daaaamn, that's a lot of money.
- The New York Rangers will play an exhibition game in Gothenburg against the Frolunda Indians, Henrik Lundqvist's old team.
- Scott Gordon and Greg Cronin were named as the new assistant coaches for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- Former coach of the former Atlanta Thrashers, Craig Ramsay will not be the new coach of the Winnipeg team. They're still looking for a coach.
- The Columbus Blue Jackets have hired Todd Richards, former Minnesota Wild Coach, as their new assistant coach.
- The San Jose Sharks are not re-signing Scott Nichol, Niclas Wallin and Jamal Mayers. Hmm, interesting decision.
- It is no secret that Jaromir Jagr wants to return to the NHL. The teams that are rumored to be in the mix are Pittsburgh and Detroit. Interesting as well.
- In NHL.com's mock draft, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was the unanimous number one pick. He's gonna have one awesome Rookie Booze Cruise after the draft.
- And most important news today happened at the Board of Governors meeting. First, was the approval of the team in Winnipeg and second, they approved two new rules governing head shots.
We figured that we would do a recap of sorts of the parade since we're too lazy to find these videos a lot of the time and it's nice to have them all in one place to watch.
The Bruins started their parade route at TD Garden where some speeches were made (not a lot) and Brad Marchand tried his hand at rapping.
Patrice Bergeron is adorably awkward.
This video is of a few of the players being interviewed after the parade festivities.
Then they got into the Duck boats and made their way to Copley Square where the parade ended.
- The St. Louis Blues re-signed Vladimir Sobotka to a three-year deal worth 3.9 million dollars.
- Scott Howson, GM of the Blur Jackets, wants to re-sign Jan Hejda and also wants to make some deals.
- The Minnesota Wild have named Mike Yeo as their new head coach. Like Macke said to us, "At least the Oilers don't have to worry about the Wild's power play doing much damage." Oh, burn.
- The Dallas Stars have also hired a new coach, promoting Glen Gulutzan from their AHL team. (thanks to Shanny for the link)
- In smaller news, the Calgary Flames hired a new goaltending coach in the form of Clint Malarchuk.
- CBC's 2011 NHL End of play offs montage
- Jaromir Jagr wants to come back to the NHL and his agent is planting the idea in the heads of NHL GMs of bringing him back.
- The cover-boy for NHL'12 will be revealed at the Awards show on the 22nd. We are beyond excited. Who do you think it will be?
- Speaking of the NHL Awards, Dierks Bentley and Far East Movement will perform. Should be interesting...
- The Flyers have begun talks with Ilya Bruzgalov, hoping to sign him before July 1st.
- The Devils have elected to take Zach Parise to salary arbitration.
- Shea Weber and the Nashville Predators seem to be going the same way but for completely different reasons.
Stanley Cup News:
- Here is an article about the rioting that happened in Vancouver after the Canucks lost. The Canucks believe that their 'true fans' were not to blame for this destruction.
- HNIC had the annual 'get to know your newly minted Stanley Cup winners' and it's fun to see the players and who their heroes were.
- Milan Lucic won the Cup on his home turf, being from Vancouver and all.
- Down Goes Brown has a period by period recap of the Stanley Cup Finals for every game. As always, it's freaking hilarious.
- Brad Marchand had quite a rookie season that was capped off by scoring two goals in the Cup final.
- In case you were wondering, here is the 'real' audio of Tum Thomas in the handshake line. It's pretty funny.
- Someone had the foresight to tape Tyler Seguin dancing in the locker room and put it on YouTube.
- Tim Thomas received the Conn Smythe and the Stanley Cup and said 'shut it' to all of the haters after quite a season.
- Social media outlets like twitter and tumblr were urging people to help catch the rioters in Vancouver by submitting pictures and names of known people who were causing the destruction.
- Video from the game and the celebration.
- Dan Hamhuis will need surgery for his injuries but Christian Ehrhoff doesn't have to.
- The Bruins returned to Boston with the Cup around nine in the morning on Thursday. They were all still probably drunk.
- The Bruins, specifically Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara and Tim Thomas ended up in New York City with the Cup to visit The Today Show and the NHL Store.
- The Bruins parade happened today and we will have a recap of sorts going on tomorrow!
WHAT SHE SAID: THE 2011 STANLEY CUP FINALS REENACTED BY FOR REAL (and not currently bogus) READY FOR PRIME TIME PLAYERS!!! GAME 7 RECAP
It's over.
The Boston Bruins are the Stanley Cup Champions and Zdeno Chara was crowned the winning captain.
Tim Thomas was named the most valuable player during the play offs. Totally deserved it. We've made fun of him a lot here but the bitch showed up when it counted and that's all that matters.
We just want to say congratulations to the Bruins and to their fans because we know what this journey is all about and to win it all is a mix of relief and happiness and complete craziness.
For us, it seems like a million years ago that we were at the Stanley Cup Parade in the sweltering June heat at nine in the morning, waiting for a glimpse of our boys with the Cup.
So fans, enjoy this. Stop hating on 'bandwagon' fans, at least your team has fans. Stop hating on the Canucks, they lost and they're already in a world of hurt. We've been there too.
Just remember that when October rolls around, you're just another team and on the starting line with everyone else. So celebrate now and make sure that it counts.
We did.
Just remember that seeing Patrice Bergeron raise the Cup is amazing after all that he has been through and that he's been a Bruin for the longest on the team.
And having Mark Recchi (finally) retire after getting his THIRD Cup is also pretty awesome.
And Andy Ference getting a chance to celebrate like a little kid with the Cup after losing in 2004. That's pretty special as well.
When we think about all of the guys on the Bruins and who they lost/gained throughout the season, it makes the win more special than before. So many great players have finally got to raise the Cup.
This is going to be a fun summer.
We also want to say congratulations to the Canucks on a great season and a Finals that was boring yet also compelling to watch.
We could say, 'There's always next year' but as Jeremy Roenick knows, there could never be a next year. We never made fun of him or Ryan Kesler crying because we would have too. But for a team like Vancouver, it's likely that there is a 'next year'.
We would also like to say that it was really nice to see that most of the crowd at Rogers was still in attendance when the Cup was brought out. It was also nice to hear them cheer when certain Bruins held the Cup high.
Those are true hockey fans. You make all of us proud.
And we're sorry that some idiots trashed your city, we know that not all Canadians are like that. There are people like that in America too. We're also sorry that as Hawks fans we couldn't root for you.
That's just how it is.
The Boston Bruins were named the best team in the NHL last night. Who would have thought, eh?
