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Wings Penguins Game 6

If the wings win, they skate the Cup. If not, then game 7 is Friday in Detroit.

Wings-Penguins game 5

It really is a one game series. Who ever wins this, will win the cup, in my opinion.

Wings-Pens Game 4

Detroit leads 2-1 but if they lose this, it’s a brand new series and only a best of 3. If Detroit wins this, they will have a stranglehold on the series.

Wings Penns Game 3

Wings/Penguins game 2

Ok, we’re up and running!

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Wings-Penguins Game 1

It’s on. Time for the last series!

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Go Wings!

Wings Hawks Game 5

Pitt has punched their ticket. The Wings need to as well. Time to finish off Chicago.

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Wings Hawks Game 4

2-1 Detroit. In the other series, it’s Pitt over Carolina 3-0. Detroit needs to wrap this up to stop Pitt from getting rested while waiting.

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Wings Hawks Game 3

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AI Finale or RedWings game 2

Take your pick. The top chat is the AI finale. The bottom one is the wings.

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Wings game here!

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brackets brackets brackets

Ok, time for everyone to get the bracket fever! Our good friends at dummocrats.com are having their annual bracket challenge on Yahoo! Sooooooo, don’t be a slug. Go sign up. Follow this link and select join group. The group id is 112520 and the password is dummo2009! Come one and come all!

Picks are due before the first tip-off on Thursday.

Make sure you take Michigan over Clemson too…

misc fun for Monday/Tuesday

So the UC Berkley is working on a way to make objects invisible. Kind of like that cloak in Harry Potter. The military is funding it, although I can see many civilian uses. You could toss it on and head for say, oh, I don’t know, the nearest women’s locker room! Or the hottest women’s dorm! It would be great for those sold out football or hockey games. yeah, some real good civilian uses for us guys. How much are they?

I love the olympics. Especially when the French tell us how they will “smash the Americans” in swimming and we nail them by 8/100ths of a second. The videos on youtube are being taken down left and right. So here is the NBC video of the relay and the medal ceremony and other swim events as well. The top 5 all beat the world record which means that 2 teams beat the record and went home without a medal. Ouch.

Speaking of the olympics, did you hear the story about our flag bearer at the opening ceremonies? Lopez Lomong was in Sudan during a civil war about 17 years ago. He was 6 at the time. He fled and wound up at a refugee camp in Kenya. He eventually was able to come to America where he gained his citizenship. He was inspired by other American olympians to try out for the olympics and made it in the 1500m run. When our original flag bearer was nixed by China due to political outspoken-ness, they chose Lopez. Incredible. From running from a bloody civil war at age 6, to an American olympian at age 23. Eat that one America hating lefties, you may not think it, but everyone else thinks we’re a darn good place to live. Glad to have you as a citizen, Lopez. We’re proud of you whether you win a medal or not. Go out there and do your best!

A 10 year old girl is blogging and youtube-ing for McCain. (Hat tip SisterToldjah)

A bulldog in Michigan saved a bag of kittens that had been thrown into a lake.

Finally, a couple examples of the best outcomes, intruder killed by homeowner!

And a sailor defends his girlfriend. Result? Intruder destroyed!

A couple funny things for your Saturday night

I know I seem like their field reporter, but they are so funny that they have to be mentioned yet again. So, over at the Moxargon Group, Barack Obama is having a yard sale. Stop by at Barack’s yard sale to shop his astoundingly low prices.

Here’s a little piece of advice for you. If you’re going to get drunk and drive and get caught, it is not a wise idea to go to a Halloween party dressed in a prison outfit and have pictures of you at said party drinking while dressed in said prison suit. It just might change the judges mind on sentencing when someone you hurt shows him those pictures on the myspace page. Oh and if you kill someone while drunk driving and then go to a party right afterword and post how you live to drink and party, the judge may look disfavorably on you when he sees that page too.

Here’s something you don’t see everyday, Pluto in Disney chasing a kid to kick his bahonkis. Apparently the kid nailed Pluto in the ~~nuts~~ globes and Pluto was out for a butt kicking.

Here’s another office freakout to laugh at. At least no one got hurt. Well, not that it shows.

Finally, as a soccer coach and sometime player, it is good to see the pros make the same stupid mistakes I do on the field. A handful of goalie mistakes.

Have a good Sunday!

What is that cup thing anyway?

There is nothing like the Cup. The Stanley Cup was donated to Hockey by Lord Stanley of Canada in 1892. He purchased it and declared that only the best team could win it and ever since, it has been the biggest prize in sports. There are 42 Lombardi trophies. The adorn various showcases in stadiums across the country. NBA trophies? Well, come by Detroit and we’ll show you some in our case. Baseball? Soccer? All give out trophies to keep. That’s where the Cup is different. There is only one Cup. Every year, the teams of the NHL strap on their skates and go out to battle. Over the season, they skate, shoot, check, fight, bleed, hurt and give everything they have, just for the chance to play for the Cup. At the end of the season, the deserving teams battle. They fight and claw their way through a gauntlet of games. The skate, check, bleed and give their all just so they can hold it for one fleeting moment. For one glorious minute, they hoist the Cup and skate with it. They take a traditional drink from it in the locker room. Over the summer, each member of the team, including the coaches, trainers, everyone, will get a day with the Cup. They can take it where they want. It has shown up in churches and strip clubs, bars and baseball games. It has travelled to Europe and Asia. It has visited troops and hospitals. The original, on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame, was even thrown into a lake in anger and had to be recovered. The entire season boils down to holding the Cup for a moment. But they only get it for a moment. In a few months, the cup will leave the champions and go back to the NHL. In October, the teams will strap the skates back on and they will skate, shoot, check, fight, hurt and bleed for just one more chance. One more sip. One more moment with the Cup. It is why they will take a puck to the face and leave the ice for stitches and return that game. It is why the push their bodies to the point of breaking. It is the meaning of the entire season. A moment holding the Cup.

But winning the Cup is more than a moment. If you look at the Cup, you will see rings that make up it’s base. Engraved on the rings are the names of the players and coaches of the teams that have won it. Each ring holds 13 teams and there are 5 rings. As a ring is filled, it is moved up and the top ring is taken to the Hall of Fame to be displayed with the original cup from the 1890’s. That is the magic of the Cup. Years from now, when most of this team is gone to Heaven, they will live on through the Cup. The team that hoists the Cup in 2050 will be able to read the names of Zetterberg, Osgood and Draper and the rest of the champions of this and other seasons as those names will still be on the Cup. The Cup is not a mere trophy, the Cup is immortality. It is hockey Valhalla. The warriors of the NHL fight to earn their place amongst the victorious warriors past and present. When they win, they place their name with the greats like Gretzky and Howe. When they drink from the Cup, they enter and are forever enshrined in the realm of the victors. The Cup may go back to the NHL, it may never again be touched by these players. That doesn’t matter. By winning the Cup, they leave their touch on it forever. Hail the glorious victors of Lord Stanley’s Cup. Hail to the Red Wings of 2008. Take your place amongst the deserving warriors and enjoy your time with the Cup. For now.

NHL Game 6 Chat

Come one, come all to the NHL game 6. Last one went to the 3rd overtime before Pittsburg took it 4-3. This should be as good a game. Hopefully not as long.

Update: AND IT’S OVER! WINGS WIN. WOO HOO! Thank you Stix for hanging out with me today. It was good to chat with you!

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