Stanley Cup Final - Tampa Bay Lightning (2) vs Dallas Stars (3)

[TheScorpion]

This will be a playoff everybody remembers and talks about for a long, long, long time.

Glad we could all witness it together, cheers everyone.

[AC]

Jamie Benn in the SCF: 0 goals, 1 assist, 14 penalty minutes

Oh man, I can't wait for the Dallas Stars CEO to come out and call him a ##### again. Benn should have tried kicking and kneeing more Lightning players if he wasn't going to produce.

[TheScorpion]

Champs!

[getbak]

May this be the first and last time the Stanley Cup is ever presented in that arena.

[lazypucker]

It may not be in the same bubble form, but I don't think fans will be allowed back to arenas in next season's playoffs like nothing had happened....

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by AC

Mathieu Joseph celebrating that hard when he was a black ace is weird IMO.

I get being a part of the team is exciting, but let's be honest you didn't really win it.

How hard would you celebrate if the Flames won it when you aren't on the team at all?

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

What a playoffs. Hopefully we never see anything like this again but more than full marks to the team that came out as champion.
A whole lot of people said this whole thing was either a bad idea or it was going to be marred by players getting sick.
Hats off to the NHL and the players for pulling this off.

I admit I was one of the skeptical ones at first, but you definitely gotta give credit to the league for pulling this off. They did an incredible job.

[timbit]

Cory Stillman, Claude Lemieux and Pat Maroon are the only players in history to win back to back Cups, with different teams.

[AC]

Originally Posted by dino7c

How hard would you celebrate if the Flames won it when you aren't on the team at all?

As a player? Not as if I contributed to the win.

Hell, even for Stamkos it has to be awkward, doesn't it?

[dino7c]

Ninja edit

[CalgaryFan1988]

Originally Posted by timbit

Cory Stillman, Claude Lemieux and Pat Maroon are the only players in history to win back to back Cups, with different teams, in NHL history.

You forgot the (*) beside Stillman.

[Mattman]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Champs!

Luke Schenn was #5 in that draft as well.

In fact Doughty and Pietrangelo round out that top 5 so all of them have a cup, pretty cool to see.

[getbak]

Does anyone know the last time (if ever) 2 brothers won the Cup in back-to-back years with different teams?

[1qqaaz]

Didn't Colin Fraser win three cups while barely being an NHLer?

[dino7c]

Lol they had to sneak in some Leaf and Oiler highlights to their playoff montage...no Flames other than Tkachuk shaking he head in the press box

[AC]

Originally Posted by timbit

Cory Stillman, Claude Lemieux and Pat Maroon are the only players in history to win back to back Cups, with different teams.

Nope. Even if you exclude the early NHL days 3 players also did it in the 60s:

Al Arbour: 1961 with Chicago and 1962 with Toronto

Ed Litzenberger: 1961 with Chicago and 1962 with Toronto

Ab McDonald: 1960 with Montreal and 1961 with Chicago

[HalifaxDrunk]

Originally Posted by Looch City

How good will the flight back to Tampa feel?

Airplane takes off from the dusted wasteland of Edmonton and arrives on the shores of the blue ocean.

Like finally arriving at civilization after 2 months of backpacking in the desert wilderness.

Wow, this safe atmosphere of hockey has been boring, bring on the Florida Covid!!!

[GranteedEV]

Gotta admit, Jon Cooper has gotten a lot out of this group. Might have won in 2015 if Kucherov and Bishop don't go down. Made it to the ECF a couple years later without Stamkos. Cup without Stamkos this year.

[Manhattanboy]

Wish we had a coach like Cooper. Maybe ours can do great things too.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Just what Florida needs. Two championship parades to get that COVID spreading extra fast. As if removing all COVID restrictions wasn’t bad enough.