Ain't Life Ducky...
As originally seen on TLB Prime...
THE DUCKS WON THE CUP!
THE CUP'S GONE TO THE DUCK!
Whichever way one puts it,
this is a rather odd day
for the storied sport
that is ice hockey!
No - not this team of quacks
This one!
Party hardy now
Donald, Daffy, Darkwing,
Wild Wing - you who were elated when
your team defeated the Red Wings -
This victory is for the departed ducks as well;
Paul Kariya, Howard, Count Duckula
And those who stuck with the team
through thick and thin
through heartwrenching losses
and the most decisive and sweetest wins!
Still, having said... er... typed all that,
It is still the Ducks...
The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
have won the Stanley Cup
(over those silly Senators!)
Surely it is another sign
of the end of the world.
Hence, rejoice, duckies
ugly ducklings
and other quacks of the world!
For the end might be TRULY near now...!
courtesy of Luminous Luciano!
If the Wayne Gretzky-led Los Angeles Kings had played their cards right, they would have been the first California-based team to have won the Stanley Cup - not the Mighty Ducks in 2007!
During his years there, Gretzky (the so-called "Great One") didn't do squat for the Kings franchise (much like a Thornton did for Boston and San Jose - not to mention Davos in the Swiss League! And Gretzky himself wherever else he stopped by - St-Louis, NY Rangers... A team with "leaders" like these needs a whole line-up full of leaders and plumbers who do the dirty work, whether the "great one" who gets all the fame and hogs the spotlight all for himself DOES or really DOES NOT act as a motivator to the team...)
In 1993, even though the doors flung themselves wide open for the Kings and allowed them to reach the Finals without having to meet there any one of the top three contenders from the East (in order: Boston, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia) the Kings still tripped all-over themselves and allowed the lowly Canadiens to steal from them crucial wins (in overtime) as they had stolen from everyone else throughout those 1993 playoffs...
And that was the only time Gretzky led the Kings onto the "promised land"...!
Never again would he lead ANYBODY into the Finals (and, as a coach, he is a dismal motivator - with the Phoenix Coyotes... No surprise there. Like Joe Thornton, he is only good at accumulating personal honors - and there are none to be accumulated on the coach's bench!)
The California Golden Seals sure as hell could not have been the first team from over there to win the cup either...
So, it befell Anaheim to do it!
The team that some had named, before its birth, the "Anaheim Aces" (because an ace trumps a king in poker! Lots of poking going on in hockey too, it's true...) was originally owned by a certain Michael Eisner of Walt Disney Company fame... M.E. was much like Gretzky and Joe T - as in "it was all about M.E. - M.E. - M.E.!" and he had no respect for the tradition of ice hockey and the NHL heritage...
To see the team that he founded - originally named after a mediocre series of Disney films, the moronic Mighty Ducks coached by Emilio Estevez (still, a better coach than Gretzky, somehow...!) - win the highest honors now (albeit under new ownership and after having dropped the ridiculous monicker "Mighty" - they did keep their Disney mascot, Wild Wing, though!)
Well... It is all a bitter pill to swallow for traditionalists who'd prefer to see any one of the original six teams (BASED IN THE USA) win it all instead...
But it was written that, this year, a young turk... uh... a young duck named Getzlaf would get the last laugh indeed...!
Hmm... Where was that written again?
At least TWO PLACES indeed... ;)
In the Book of Fate, I guess - as well as
in the Luminous Blog!
(Or any other blog part of the TLB PRIME NETWORK -
boils down to the same darn thing,
I tell you, infidel unbeliever! *lol*)
I admit, it is nice to see two brothers win the cup together though -
and the Niedermayer brothers finally did it.
The last brother tandem to do it had been the Sutter brothers (2 out of the lot of 5 or 6 of them...!) that were part of the NY Islanders dynasty...
The worthy brothers that were to be found on the Boston Bruins roster,
in recent years, did not get to be so fortunate:
the Crowder brothers, the Wesley brothers, the Sweeney... uh... triplets?
Well, maybe the Sigalet brothers will have better luck?
(Better luck than the Sedin twins -and Cam Neely- did in Vancouver...!
But those are other stories...!)
Nice, also, to see players who had been hopeful of winning this thing for so many years - finally do it now; Teemu Selanne, Todd Marchant and Jean-Sébastien Giguère certainly - but not Brad May, hell no! May is reminiscent of a John Kordic clod - only lucky to be at the right place, at the right time... But I digress...
I am also glad, of course, to see two former Boston Bruins win this, side-by-side as they are on the roster: #'s 21 and 26, Sean O'Donnell and Samuel Pahlsson.
I would be remiss though if I did not mention with glee that the Thornton who proves to be superior and a champion is not Joe
(and much less his San Jose cuz, Scott)
but the Ducks' Shawn Thornton!
And San Jose coach (for not much longer at all) Ron Wilson will spend the summer thinking about the fact that his name is not
(and never will be) inscribed upon the cup -
while Clay Wilson's now is!
Priceless, really! ;)
Looking forward to seeing rubber duckies emblazoned with the cup
(here's hoping that such a cloisonné pin on the feathers of a duck
is NOT animal cruelty in any shape or form for PETA, IFAW & co.)
They will give those away on some Ducks home game next season
And the fans will litter the rink with them
when Teemu scores a hat trick or Pronger clobbers someone!
*lol*
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O Gato E O Pato...!
Great going, ducky! Now just wait til next year...
During his years there, Gretzky (the so-called "Great One") didn't do squat for the Kings franchise (much like a Thornton did for Boston and San Jose - not to mention Davos in the Swiss League! And Gretzky himself wherever else he stopped by - St-Louis, NY Rangers... A team with "leaders" like these needs a whole line-up full of leaders and plumbers who do the dirty work, whether the "great one" who gets all the fame and hogs the spotlight all for himself DOES or really DOES NOT act as a motivator to the team...)
In 1993, even though the doors flung themselves wide open for the Kings and allowed them to reach the Finals without having to meet there any one of the top three contenders from the East (in order: Boston, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia) the Kings still tripped all-over themselves and allowed the lowly Canadiens to steal from them crucial wins (in overtime) as they had stolen from everyone else throughout those 1993 playoffs...
And that was the only time Gretzky led the Kings onto the "promised land"...!
Never again would he lead ANYBODY into the Finals (and, as a coach, he is a dismal motivator - with the Phoenix Coyotes... No surprise there. Like Joe Thornton, he is only good at accumulating personal honors - and there are none to be accumulated on the coach's bench!)
The California Golden Seals sure as hell could not have been the first team from over there to win the cup either...
So, it befell Anaheim to do it!
The team that some had named, before its birth, the "Anaheim Aces" (because an ace trumps a king in poker! Lots of poking going on in hockey too, it's true...) was originally owned by a certain Michael Eisner of Walt Disney Company fame... M.E. was much like Gretzky and Joe T - as in "it was all about M.E. - M.E. - M.E.!" and he had no respect for the tradition of ice hockey and the NHL heritage...
To see the team that he founded - originally named after a mediocre series of Disney films, the moronic Mighty Ducks coached by Emilio Estevez (still, a better coach than Gretzky, somehow...!) - win the highest honors now (albeit under new ownership and after having dropped the ridiculous monicker "Mighty" - they did keep their Disney mascot, Wild Wing, though!)
Well... It is all a bitter pill to swallow for traditionalists who'd prefer to see any one of the original six teams (BASED IN THE USA) win it all instead...
But it was written that, this year, a young turk... uh... a young duck named Getzlaf would get the last laugh indeed...!
Hmm... Where was that written again?
At least TWO PLACES indeed... ;)
In the Book of Fate, I guess - as well as
in the Luminous Blog!
(Or any other blog part of the TLB PRIME NETWORK -
boils down to the same darn thing,
I tell you, infidel unbeliever! *lol*)
I admit, it is nice to see two brothers win the cup together though -
and the Niedermayer brothers finally did it.
The last brother tandem to do it had been the Sutter brothers (2 out of the lot of 5 or 6 of them...!) that were part of the NY Islanders dynasty...
The worthy brothers that were to be found on the Boston Bruins roster,
in recent years, did not get to be so fortunate:
the Crowder brothers, the Wesley brothers, the Sweeney... uh... triplets?
Well, maybe the Sigalet brothers will have better luck?
(Better luck than the Sedin twins -and Cam Neely- did in Vancouver...!
But those are other stories...!)
Nice, also, to see players who had been hopeful of winning this thing for so many years - finally do it now; Teemu Selanne, Todd Marchant and Jean-Sébastien Giguère certainly - but not Brad May, hell no! May is reminiscent of a John Kordic clod - only lucky to be at the right place, at the right time... But I digress...
I am also glad, of course, to see two former Boston Bruins win this, side-by-side as they are on the roster: #'s 21 and 26, Sean O'Donnell and Samuel Pahlsson.
I would be remiss though if I did not mention with glee that the Thornton who proves to be superior and a champion is not Joe
(and much less his San Jose cuz, Scott)
but the Ducks' Shawn Thornton!
And San Jose coach (for not much longer at all) Ron Wilson will spend the summer thinking about the fact that his name is not
(and never will be) inscribed upon the cup -
while Clay Wilson's now is!
Priceless, really! ;)
Looking forward to seeing rubber duckies emblazoned with the cup
(here's hoping that such a cloisonné pin on the feathers of a duck
is NOT animal cruelty in any shape or form for PETA, IFAW & co.)
They will give those away on some Ducks home game next season
And the fans will litter the rink with them
when Teemu scores a hat trick or Pronger clobbers someone!
*lol*
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O Gato E O Pato...!Great going, ducky! Now just wait til next year...
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3:40 PM
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On the luminous blog, we focus on the lighter side now...
On the lukewarm blog (among others) we can focus on the OTHER SIDE OF STUFF...
Hence - now - the losers' locker room!
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Senators' Longest Spring Gives Way to Long Summer
Jun 7, 6:42 PM (ET)
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By SEAN FARRELL
OTTAWA (AP) -Every hockey player dreams of scoring a Stanley Cup-winning goal. Chris Phillips will have nightmares about his.
The veteran Ottawa defenseman accidentally put the puck in his own net in Anaheim's 6-2 win over the Senators on Wednesday night for the Ducks' first Cup-clinching goal.
However, Phillips wasn't credited for the goal. Travis Moen was officially credited with Anaheim's third goal in Game 5 as the last Ducks player to have touched the puck on that play.
"It's really disappointing," Phillips said. "To come this far and be that close makes it even harder, and to see the Stanley Cup on the ice and see them celebrating, it's tough."
With Presidents' Trophy winners Buffalo widely favored to represent the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup finals, Ottawa quietly made its 10th straight playoff appearance.
Seeded fourth in the East, the Senators knocked off No. 5 Pittsburgh and second-seeded New Jersey before ousting the top-seeded Sabres to reach their first Stanley Cup final since the expansion franchise brought the NHL back to the Canadian capital in 1992.
Daniel Alfredsson scored the overtime series clincher in Buffalo to become the first European captain to lead his team to the finals as Ottawa cruised through the first three rounds with a 12-3 record, each series lasting five games.
Senators GM John Muckler, with five Stanley Cup rings as part of Edmonton's coaching staff during the Oilers' glory years in the 1980s, knew a tougher challenge awaited his team in facing Anaheim.
"I think our club will play better than it's playing right now," Muckler said the day after the Senators' conference-clinching win. "It's playing really well right now but I think we have to come up another level. We've shown that we're capable of doing that."
Muckler was right about the need to reach a higher level in another five-game series, one that didn't go the Senators way.
Ottawa's top line of Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Dany Heatley never got it going in the finals against the Ducks' tough checking line of Moen, Samuel Pahlsson and Rob Niedermayer, and were ultimately broken up and spread over three lines in the deciding game.
Alfredsson scored four goals against Anaheim, including two Wednesday, the second a short-handed goal that got the Senators within 3-2.
Heatley and Spezza, though, were ineffective throughout the finals.
"We had some guys that didn't play to what they were playing," Ottawa coach Bryan Murray said. "I think that's most disappointing and what we and they have to live with through the summer."
After losing the opening two games of the series on the road, the Senators overcame three one-goal deficits to win Game 3 in the first Stanley Cup finals game in Ottawa since 1927, when the original Senators won their 11th championship.
Murray, who is without a contract for next season, had his players in position to even the series but Ottawa proved unable to match Anaheim's determination and skill.
The Ducks came as advertised: big, fast, talented and relentless.
"We knew all those things, but we thought we would have competed and the series would have been longer, at any rate," Murray said.
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 8:51 PM
Muckler = Loser.
Always knew that.
;)
He's another "sufferer/beneficiary" of the John (almost made the typo "Jihn" there - hmm...) Kordic syndrome...
At the right place, at the right time - but not deserving one bit!
Muck's attempts to turn Buffalo and now Ottawa into winners have been LAUGHERS...
Fuck u Muck!
*LOL*
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 8:53 PM
Oh, and why do I hate Brad May so much?
No - not because of his link to Muckler...
No, not because of his lucky garbage goal in overtime against Andy Moog in 1993...
Rather because of the "quality" of the guy - and his going unpunished:
Controversy
2000 incident
As a member of the Phoenix Coyotes in November of 2000, May was suspended for 20 games following his actions in a November 11th game where he hit Columbus forward Steve Heinze in the nose with his stick.[1] At the time, it was the fourth longest suspension in league history.
May was also noted for allegedly putting the bounty on the head of Colorado's Steve Moore that ultimately resulted in the Todd Bertuzzi incident that essentially ended Moore's career. May was named in a lawsuit filed by Moore, but charges were later dropped. (1)
I guess Brad hates Steves! *LOL*
And I hate Brad! ;)
*ROTFLMBO*
(1) - source: Wikipedia
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Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™, at 10:14 AM
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