Man am I tired this morning. I was up quite late watching all of the coverage and what not. I also ran out this morning to grab a copy of each newspaper to put with the others.
What a great moment when Timmonen got to hoist the cup. Dude was basically dead and played. This team was amazing doing it with essentially 4 defenseman. Keith was only 4 seconds away from the all time record for per game minutes played in a cup final.
All of the criticism he has taken and Crow throws a shut out to clinch it. Gotta Love it. Best part was his traditional "F" bomb on live TV after the game.
My friend has had season tickets since the old barn(over 35 years now) and he has 300 level seats, about 6 rows from the top and sold his set for $3300 for this game. He has basically paid for his seats for years to come now. I had offered to buy him some Nacho's, A beer, an ice cream and pay for parking if he took me, but he sold them instead. I'm the dummy who had been splitting season tickets since I was 18 years old and had finally had enough of going to see a bad team and got out of it about 9 years ago...just as we started getting good...oops.
I'll be going to Universal and Clearwater in July, so I'm going to be stocking up on Championship merchandise to wear for that trip.
As one of the boys said in the post game, watch out for Tampa in the years to come. They are a very good team and right there at the top. I'm just glad Stammer never got on track. He was who I was most scared of going in to this.
for the evening!
