Tag Archives: Stanley Cup Finals
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Dan Hamhuis’ Hip Check Sent Milan Lucic Flying Head-Over-Heels (Video)
In addition to sinking their teeth into the Boston Bruins, the Vancouver Canucks also did a good job laying the body on them during Game One of the Stanley Cup finals last night. Of the 30 hits the Canucks players delivered, none were prettier that Dan Hamhuis’ hip check, which sent Bruins forward Milan Lucic [...]
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Watch The Canucks’ Alex Burrows Bite The Bruins’ Patrice Bergeron (Video)
Don’t let the 1-0 score fool you. Last night’s opening game of the Stanley Cup Finals was filled with plenty of great scoring chances and other interesting moments, including the one that occurred after 20 minutes of play. To most, what transpired along the boards following the buzzer seemed like just another post-whistle playoff hockey [...]
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The Stat Line Of The Night — 6/1/11 — Roberto Luongo
The 2011 Stanly Cup Finals features a battle between two of the three nominees for the Vezina Trophy, which is awarded to the NHL’s best goaltender during the regular season. As a result, many believe that this will be a tight series where goals will be hard to come by. That was certainly the case [...]
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NBC’s Stanley Cup Finals Commercial Is The Ultimate Fail! (Video)
The Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins are set to kick off their Stanley Cup Finals series in about 30 minutes. Someone should probably tell that to the people at NBC, who still seem to think that the Tampa Bay Lightning were victorious in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, according to this commercial [...]
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Don Cherry Is The Phantom Of The Stanley Cup Playoffs (Video)
We have all heard about playoff ghosts. For some prime examples, look no further than Marian Hossa (prior to his Game 2 goal), Joe Thornton, and so far in this year’s finals, the top lines of each team. Prior to Game 2 between the Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers, the ghosts who had pulled [...]
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Dan Carcillo Levels His Own Teammate Jeff Carter (Video)
With the Chicago Blackhawks taking Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals, it was a near given that the Philadelphia Flyers were going to turn up the grit and toughness a notch in Game 2 and try to steal home ice. Flyers coach Peter Laviolette knew if the Flyers were going to bring the nasty, [...]
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Don Cherry Has His Hands Full With Giant Octopus
Total Pro Sports – Who better to give an intro to the ever-so-important game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Don Cherry was in the Detroit river to kick off the big night and he brought a giant friend with him. It all starts with the names of grinders popping up on the screen. Then [...]
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Red Wings’ Kris Draper Says Sidney Crosby Snubbed Lidstrom
Total Pro Sports – Following a Stanley Cup victory, it is easy for players of the winning team to get all caught up in the emotions that come with such an achievement. Sometimes they can even get a little too caught up in the moment. That was the excuse that Pittsburgh Penguins vice president Tom [...]
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Changing The Script: Pens Win Adds One Final Game To 2009 NHL Season
Total Pro Sports – It is the most appropriate way to end what has been an entertaining Stanley Cup Finals between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Faced with a do or die situation at home last night, the Penguins came out hard and took it to the defending cup champions, rewriting last [...]
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NBC Tells Fans To Watch Game 6 Of Stanley Cup Finals At Home
Total Pro Sports – There has been no bigger party crasher at this year’s Stanley Cup Finals than NBC. First they put the NHL in a position where they were forced to play games one and two back-to-back on Saturday and Sunday. That did not work out all that bad and the fans did not [...]
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Red Wings Limo Take An Unwelcome Ride Through Pittsburgh
Total Pro Sports – If you have visited Joe Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings this post-season, you must have had the opportunity to see the Red Wings Limo. It is the long automobile on monster tires painted in the Red and White colors of the Wings, and is parked right outside the [...]
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Sidney Crosby Asked By Reporter How Big His Knob Is?
Total Pro Sports - With all the intensity, battling and bad blood that characterizes the NHL playoffs, its always a welcome change to see the players show a lighter side on off-days. Perhaps no one brings that out more in the bearded men on skates than The Score TV personality Cabbie. How does he do [...]
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Pens Win! Even Series With Wings
Total Pro Sports – Just when it looked all too much like 2008, the Pittsburgh Penguins used back-to-back penalty kills to change the script and defeat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2, evening the 2009 version of the Stanley Cup Finals at 2-2. It had looked like the Wings seized control of the game early in [...]
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Thank You Pens For Giving Us A Series
Total Pro Sports – It wasn’t technically an elimination game last night for the Pittsburgh Penguins, but it may as well have been. Down 2-0 in the series to the Detroit Red Wings, the Penguins found themselves tied 2-2 after two periods last night at home, but played the do-or-die third like you’d expect a [...]
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Don Cherry Does His Best Dos Equis Impression
Total Pro Sports – It all begins with the quote, “Here in Detroit, Michigan, and across the NHL, his reputation is expanding faster than the galaxy.” Sound familiar? It’s CBC’s knock-off version of the popular Dos Equis XX commercials. An who is playing “the world’s most interesting man” this time? None other than the pink-suited [...]
