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GDT: Stanley Cup Final Game 6 Canes @ Vegas 6/14 8:00

andyt said:
Don’t forget that Can Ward got married right after the 2006 Final. He didn’t bring the Conn Smythe with him.

As my father reminded me on my wedding day, you’re only the 3rd most important person in the room. Bride, her mother then you. Maybe.
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Now its the Cup, The Bride, her mom, then you. He worked a lot harder for the cup ;)
 
Isn't it great to walk around all day and you cant wipe the perma smile off your face! Hit a Dick's Sports in Apex and it was packed with Canes fans...had NHL on Sirius XM all day long, I feel like a peacock when it decides to strut all it's feathers and show off...when we go through all the trials and tribulations and nervous moments of these Cup runs it sure feels so so good when you win one...or two!!! :)
 
But, they had an easy path to the finals...

Today all the XM guys are like, wow, what a clinic that team put on. After most of them picked Vegas. The Canes got better in each series, game by game. Torts and Vegas never had a chance. Torts and his grandstanding was a last ditch effort to get his mash unit to fight one more day. He knew they were cooked. The Canes proved in game 5 the weren't going to be beaten. Not by Vegas. I told everyone who wanted to talk hockey yesterday that the Canes would win in dominating fashion in game 6. I was wholly surprised it wasn't a 5+ goal game. Game 7 was a hallucination by Vegas fans, the hockey media world, and anyone who hasn't been paying attention.
 
andyt said:
Andersen was shocked that he was the first player to get the Cup from Staal.

www.nhl.com

Andersen 'shocked' by Stanley Cup handoff from Staal | NHL.com

Goalie did not dress for Carolina in final 3 games of series because of knee injury
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And then Aho, man … standing aside for Hall. All he cares about is winning the Cup, not carrying it around. He knew it meant something different to Freddie and Hall. Dude is built different.

BTW, people talk about Jordan Staal being an extension of Brind’Amour and that’s not wrong. But Sebastian Aho is every bit the same, maybe more so.
 
ThirstNHowl said:
When the horn sounded Aho went straight to Roddy rather than jumping over the boards
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Yeah, the connection with Brindy and Staal is obvious, but Aho is cut from exactly the same cloth … just with a different frame and a different skill set.
 
In those casual interviews that get conducted with the players, Jarvis said Aho is the most competitive player on the team. He went on to say they play cards and Aho will give Jarvis a burning glare and they’re partners.
 
SlapShots said:
In those casual interviews that get conducted with the players, Jarvis said Aho is the most competitive player on the team. He went on to say they play cards and Aho will give Jarvis a burning glare and they’re partners.
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Years ago, Ed Bradley from 60 minutes did an interview with Tiger Woods. And Woods related how hyper competitive he was in everything. Bradley asked something like “if we were playing Minopoly you’d want to beat me?” Woods’ response “I’d want to kick your butt”. That’s Aho.
 
andyt said:
Andersen tried to give it to Aho and he moved aside for Hall.
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It may or may not come out completely, but I will never believe that Aho and Jarvis were not both dinged up to a point that definitely affected their play overall. The Canes had such a well rounded team with so much depth that they overcame those top guys not dominating large stretches of the playoffs, but Aho and Jarvis both looked dinged up, and I know both played in the Olympics too which obviously plays a part in the overall grind to the finish line. That's another reason why I am so happy for both of those guys to get a Cup...
 
CanadaCanes said:
It may or may not come out completely, but I will never believe that Aho and Jarvis were not both dinged up to a point that definitely affected their play overall. The Canes had such a well rounded team with so much depth that they overcame those top guys not dominating large stretches of the playoffs, but Aho and Jarvis both looked dinged up, and I know both played in the Olympics too which obviously plays a part in the overall grind to the finish line. That's another reason why I am so happy for both of those guys to get a Cup...
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You can’t convince me that Jarvis wasn’t hurt.

He and Aho both played 22 games after the Olympics. Each had 7 goals, 16 assists, so better than a point per game, better thst they averaged up to the Olympics. Maybe it was fatigue, maybe they got nicked up early, who knows. But they weren’t the same.
 
CanadaCanes said:
It may or may not come out completely, but I will never believe that Aho and Jarvis were not both dinged up to a point that definitely affected their play overall. The Canes had such a well rounded team with so much depth that they overcame those top guys not dominating large stretches of the playoffs, but Aho and Jarvis both looked dinged up, and I know both played in the Olympics too which obviously plays a part in the overall grind to the finish line. That's another reason why I am so happy for both of those guys to get a Cup...
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This is why there was a great argument to be made that T. Hall should've won the Conn Smythe. Do the Canes get past even the first round without the Hall/Stanky/Blaky line? Hall was the engine of that line. Please, don't get me wrong, I love that Staal won the award.
 
NoMich said:
This is why there was a great argument to be made that T. Hall should've won the Conn Smythe. Do the Canes get past even the first round without the Hall/Stanky/Blaky line? Hall was the engine of that line. Please, don't get me wrong, I love that Staal won the award.
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You could make an argument that entire line was a Co-Conn Smythe caliber unit all playoffs...the points, the goals, the energy, the grit, you can probably count with one or two fingers how many mediocre games those three had in 19 playoff games...
 
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