At 5:40pm on Monday, June 13th, looking around at the faces on the streets and in the bars of Vancouver, you could tell exactly who the die-hard fans were, and who was around simply to take in the festivities.  One of these groups was already talking about game 7, a fact that seemed inevita...

Are you ready for some Stanley Cup hockey?  Eh?  How does it feel to potentially be 60 hockey-minutes away from a championship?  Is it so close you can taste it?  Can you imagine drinking from that hefty, nickel-alloy mug and letting luxuriously extravagant champagne pour down the sides of ...

After 4 games of the Stanley Cup Final, two teams that only played each other 4 times in the last 4 years previously now are very familiar with each other after 4 intense games. The first two games in Vancouver showed two defensive minded teams, the difference being Vancouver is a puck cont...

From where I sit, Boston does not seem like a nice place to stay for a few days during the Stanley Cup playoffs.  Did you hear the thunderous roar of that crowd in the second and third periods?  When you're down 4 goals in a finals road game, and that ravenous crowd starts screeching for th...

Coming into game 3 on Monday night, Tim Thomas had something to prove. He may have been able to dismiss some queries as to whether he should shift his strategies in tending the goal.  Even if he ‘doesn’t care’ what others say or think about his play, he still had to come up with some sort o...