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What a end for a seven game What a gameeeeeeeeeee, congrats to the Pens and in your face for the Wings. A good note for the crowd of the Wings that stay for the cup and applaud the Pens, great respect here and i love this. Great moment of sport to see the young Pens and some old ( Guerin, Gonchar ) lift to cup to the sky. The best for the final of my topic. I'm from Quebec and i'm so f******* proud of Maxime Talbot! What a game for him! Great job! Another great moment is Kristo Letang who dedicated is victory for Luc Bourdon, i'm always amazed by that kind of moment.


Oh and what you guys think Hossa is thinking at the moment? He says he won 't regret anything but.......

Congratulations to the Penguins! It's funny how the media here was already giving the cup to Detroit. I'm so happy for them!!!


Oh, by the way, I hate the Red Wings....


(I'm an Avalanche fan)

Lakrisal wrote:Awesome game to watch though I hate the Penguins... talk about getting top picks at the right time.

Still, it makes me smile thinking about Marian Hossa

Burn in hell pain! I wish you would be stuck two years in a row after 7th play-off game with nothing.

Great win for the Pens, Fleurys final second heroics were nail-biting, even for a neutral. Congratulations to them!

Is Bettman so ignorant that he doesn't realise every single fan was booing him during his speech...

Philou: Regarding Hossa's regrets... I bet he won't sleep for weeks.

getzlaf15 wrote:Is Bettman so ignorant that he doesn't realise every single fan was booing him during his speech...

I actually thought they were booing the Penguins: first Malkin for the Conn Smythe and then Crosby when he picked up the Cup. I thought that the Detroit fans were pretty classless for it. Did the Pittsburgh fans boo last year? I can't remember...

I was thinking the same thing first but when the cup come out they start to applause. I think it's just Buttman the bouuing. If it's not, yes it's classless from them.

Congrats to the Pens. Good game!

When all the booing happened I was wondering to my wife abotu who they were booing, Bettman or the Pens. Its nice to see I'm not the only one wondering. lol

I read something about Lidstrom being seriously upset with Crosby. I guessed he didn't hit the line until after a bunch of the Wings had already left the ice.

bruins72 wrote:I read something about Lidstrom being seriously upset with Crosby. I guessed he didn't hit the line until after a bunch of the Wings had already left the ice.

Yeah Crosby was too busy celebrating... But he got down the line, just late. Who's at fault there... Detroit for me. Crosby got down the line eventually. They should have waited...

If there was enough of his team forming up a line, the Captain of the team should've noticed this and gotten to the front. Maybe he's not mature enough to be Captain?

bruins72 wrote:If there was enough of his team forming up a line, the Captain of the team should've noticed this and gotten to the front. Maybe he's not mature enough to be Captain?

I'll always think that Crosby wasn't completly ready to be a captain. But if Lidstrom really want to shake Crosby hand, then go meet him, at least it would be more sportsmanship then just whining. So it's the fault of both of them, the both captain....lol Maybe Crosby is snob or Lidstrom can't accept the defeat.

I don't think it has anything to do with maturity. Having just watched the video of it again, you can tell he is being pulled 100 different directions with everyone in his own organization wanting to shake his hand not to mention tv interviews. The video shows that he got to the line not that long after it started so all of the "we were waiting around from him" was a bunch of bologna. Mike Babcock managed to not only shake his hand but to compliment him. I've read that in past years teams waited a little bit before starting the handshake line while detroit was so eager to get off the ice (not that i blame them) that they started it while people were still celebrating. I don;t think it says anything about Crosby and the vast majority of people taking issue with him, hate him regardless.

bruins72 wrote:If there was enough of his team forming up a line, the Captain of the team should've noticed this and gotten to the front. Maybe he's not mature enough to be Captain?

Maybe he's not mature enough, but he's the face of the Franchise and was bound to happen...

I'm supporting Crosby here... I can't imagine winning the Stanley Cup and not celebrating it! I can't imagine winning the Stanley Cup for start.

getzlaf15 wrote:

bruins72 wrote:I read something about Lidstrom being seriously upset with Crosby. I guessed he didn't hit the line until after a bunch of the Wings had already left the ice.

Yeah Crosby was too busy celebrating... But he got down the line, just late. Who's at fault there... Detroit for me. Crosby got down the line eventually. They should have waited...

I agree 100%

The Red Wings, as a complete team, should have waited until the captain of the team that beat them was ready to go through the line..

Lidstrom was probably as excited as Crosby when he won his first cup.

bruins72 wrote:If there was enough of his team forming up a line, the Captain of the team should've noticed this and gotten to the front. Maybe he's not mature enough to be Captain?

I don't know, he's pretty mature for a 21 year old.


I think the Red Wings just wanted to get off the ice and they started the line as soon as they could.

bruins72 wrote:If there was enough of his team forming up a line, the Captain of the team should've noticed this and gotten to the front. Maybe he's not mature enough to be Captain?

I don't know, he's pretty mature for a 21 year old.


I think the Red Wings just wanted to get off the ice and they started the line as soon as they could.

Sorry about the editing and double posting, I was trying to do a cool multi-quote post like bruins72.


I watched the handshaking again on NHL.com and I saw that Lidstrom was at the front of his team's line. The last hand he shook was 53-54 seconds into the video. He waited about another 20 seconds and then he and all of the Red Wings at the front of the line just left.

Was twenty seconds too long to wait for a kid that really was being pulled in a hundred different ways?


I'm not trying to start anything with this post, but I just don't think its Crosby's fault.


[Forrest Gump Voice] That's all I got to say about that. [/Forrest Gump Voice]

bruins72 wrote:I read something about Lidstrom being seriously upset with Crosby. I guessed he didn't hit the line until after a bunch of the Wings had already left the ice.

What happened in there?

After the game, the teams are obviously supposed to shake hands. But Crosby was too busy celebrating and "missed some of the Detroit players" as a result... Detroit are unhappy saying it's disrespectful! But he did get down the line, just a little later as a result of him celebrating...

I Believe Lidstrom got very upset about that, and the reason why, its because he's one off the last gentelmens in the league.
But i do believe too, that was not an intentional act by Crosby.