# LORD STANLEY'S CUP. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 16, 2001, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158 "2001-04-16T14:26:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/201 "2001-06-08T13:46:18Z")
That ass whupping the Avs gave the Devils last night was so good I had to smoke a cigarette afterwards. Roy was outstanding in the first period, he could not have played any better and when he’s that hot, beating the Avs is virtually impossible. I am looking for Roy, Bourque, and the rest of the Avs to be hoisting the cup after game seven. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/202 "2001-06-08T14:00:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Feynn \* > \*\* > I am looking for Roy, Bourque, and the rest of the Avs to be hoisting the cup after game seven. \*\* Not if I have anything to do with it. . . **GO DEVILS!** Tripler Something like the past 5 games have been won on the road. Keep that in mind. . . 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/203 "2001-06-09T19:49:19Z")
Tripler - Oh Yeah?!! Go Avs! Go Avs! Go Avs! Go Avs! Go Avs! Go Avs! Go Avs! _fucking Devil worhippers…_ 🙂 Quite sadly I expect this thread to fall into obscurity once the Avs or Devils hoist The Grail, it won’t happen immediately as I expect there to be some truly gratuitous Pit behaviour to be expressed by the losers. It has been a great playoff season hasn’t it?? ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/204 "2001-06-10T03:35:05Z")
WTG Avs and fans. You were the better team. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/205 "2001-06-10T03:37:19Z")
\< smile \> My Avs kicked some ass!!! Roy-Whooooo ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/206 "2001-06-10T03:42:41Z")
Regardless of the outcome, I’ve never seen a better finals. Just outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/207 "2001-06-10T03:53:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Quixotic \* > I’ll be damned if I want to see another pathetic tailgate party for the holy grail of hockey - I’d _much_ rather have it go to any other team (might as well be Canadian). > > But it seems to me the Avalanche are looking pretty strong . . . I’m not _really_ gloating (I’m not, after all, an Avalanche fan) - I’m just glad the cup will not be subjected to the ignominy of the bleedin’ _parking lot_ again! ( **Go** to Newark already!). Great series, great players. Congrats Ray Bourque. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/208 "2001-06-10T04:17:34Z")
I’m disappointed that it wasn’t closer at the end–what I _really_wanted was a 7th game overtime. But I have to hand it to the Avs–to come back from 3-2 down and dominate the last two games against the Devils like that was pretty damn impressive. A very well-deserved Stanley Cup. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/209 "2001-06-10T06:25:16Z")
The definition of “mixed emotions” has just been changed from “watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new sports car,” to “being a live-and-die Red Wings and hockey fan, watching Ray Bourque hoist The Cup, as a member of the Colorado Avalanche.” ---
**Author:** ![ACLU\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@ACLU\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ACLU_Boy)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/210 "2001-06-10T08:22:54Z")
I’m a little intoxicated from the celebration, but I have a few things to say before going to sleep: [ul] [li] Seeing Bourque hold up the cup was a wonderful sight, despite the massive exploitation by ABC[/li][li] Will Al Michaels ever forgive Roy for the “gaffe” in game four? Everyone else has, since, you know, if it wasn’t for Roy we never would have gotten past the Kings. I have the feeling that when the Broncos open up Monday Night Football this season, I’m going to hear Al Micheals say “Four months ago, in this very city…”[/li][li] During the post game interviews Adam Foote stumbled up to one the cameras with beer in hand and wearing halloween teeth that were hideously twisted and bloody. My friends and I laughed for about twenty minutes thereafter. Foote rocks![/li][li] I’m biased, but I think that the team with the most heart won. The Devils put in a good game, better than most of their games in the series, but it just wasn’t enough.[/li][li] Roy is the greatest goalie in the history of the sport.[/li][li] I’m really glad that the Denver Riots part IV were not as bad as they have been previously (I think).[/li][li] Even better than Foote’s fake teeth joke was when one of the announcers asked Hinote what it felt like to when the Stanley Cup in his rookie year. Hinote begain his answer with “Well, I figured that since I was here I might as well.”[/li][li] I really need to get some sleep.[/li][li] Just because we’re in the pit… THE AVALANCHE FUCKING KICKED SOME FUCKING GOD DAMN ASS!![/li][/ul] Energy draining… super powers fading… must sleep… ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/211 "2001-06-10T17:47:48Z")
I’ll say it again, it was a hell of a series. It was good to see the Avalanche exorcise those unrepentant spawn of Satan back to the nether regions of hell they call New Jersey. Seeing Bourque hoist the Grail was truly priceless. Roy is the greatest goalie in the history of the game. The rest of the Avs weren’t too shabby either. You guys are the politest bunch of hockey fans I have ever had the pleasure to meet. I half expected this thread to get bumped upstairs. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/212 "2001-06-10T20:06:30Z")
::sigh:: ☹ Tripler Great series tho . . . ---
**Author:** ![Tricia\_Valentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tricia\_Valentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tricia_Valentine)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/213 "2001-06-10T20:42:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wolverine \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > > We’ll see…wolvie…we’ll see. > > > > Detroit. hmph. Next you’ll be telling me you root for the Lions > > > > jarbaby \*\* > > Only as my default pro team. My real love is the Michigan **Wolverines** and all their teams. Unfortunately they lost in the Frozen Four to Boston College. I would have loved another NCAA Hockey championship. > > Tying it back to the Stanley Cup playoffs. There are many Wolverines playing this year in the playoffs. I, however, am too lazy to look them up and list them here. > > Go Blue! > Go Red Wings! (It’s confusing sometimes) 🙂 \*\* I love you! Go Blue! Go Wings! Go… Wait, all the rest of the teams are crappy. Nevermind. MI sucks for sports other than football and hockey. ---
**Author:** ![Tricia\_Valentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tricia\_Valentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tricia_Valentine)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158/214 "2001-06-10T20:46:00Z")
Wow, I’m far behind. Just didn’t feel like reading the whole thing, when I started getting lost in stuff that happened BEFORE I realised what sports were (5 years ago). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lord-stanleys-cup/62158.md?page=10)