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There will be a new team name on the Stanley Cup when the 2018 Stanley Cup Final is finished.

Will it be the Washington Capitals, who have waited 43 long seasons and were swept, by the Detroit Red Wings, in their only other Final appearance, in 1998?

They have earned the right, winning each series after trailing, including losing the first two games to the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round and three straight games to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference Final.

1 posted on 05/27/2018 1:48:49 PM PDT by airborne
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To: airborne; shove_it; Hat-Trick; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; Betis70; ...

STANLEY CUP FINAL - - Hockey Ping!

(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)

2 posted on 05/27/2018 1:49:46 PM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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I don’t know whether the success of the Golden Knights is a great miracle sports story, an embarrassment to the NHL, or both.


3 posted on 05/27/2018 1:50:03 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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..time for Ovi to hold Lord Stanley’s cup IMO...


4 posted on 05/27/2018 1:51:26 PM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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Isn’t it about time for the next season to start?


17 posted on 05/27/2018 2:25:27 PM PDT by MikePipper
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To: airborne

Another year with no Canadian team winning the Cup.


18 posted on 05/27/2018 2:29:24 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: airborne

Nosebleed seats $780! Parking not included.


23 posted on 05/27/2018 2:55:00 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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The Golden Knights get full marks for their run to the finals, but their road to the SCF was not as difficult as what the Capitals faced. The Caps beat the two-time defending SC champs (PIT) and the top EC team from the regular season (TBL). The Eastern Conference is the stronger conference right now, with the Caps being the more battle-tested team. As long as the Caps don't take VGK lightly, I think they'll win a hard-fought SCF (but it might take 7 games to do it).
32 posted on 05/27/2018 4:35:46 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (The U.S. Senate - where American freedom goes to die.)
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To: airborne

Fleury! Fleury! Fleury!


34 posted on 05/27/2018 4:59:14 PM PDT by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: airborne

Go Caps!


54 posted on 05/27/2018 7:18:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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