WOOT. Les Canadiens has made it. So long, Golden Knights. Don't know what the heck you do in this off-season. That was a pretty fast OT. It was all Golden Knights until like 15 seconds until the end of the OT.
DAMNIT!!! I was switching between the hockey game, the Dodgers game and the Clippers game. I was watching one of the last two during the OT intermission and, by the time I switched back to the hockey game, it was over. Ugh....
But yay for the Habs!! They remind me a little bit of the 2012 Kings (not stylistically, but in terms of being a huge underdog).
holy shit they did it!! Last time the Canadiens were in the Stanley Cup finals I was riding my bike to go trade hockey cards with my friends.
The last time the Canadiens was in the Cup finals, I wasn't even one and Gretzky was the captain to the Kings. I'm sure Jingle doesn't want to talk about that part about the '93 Kings.
That was, I think, my third season following hockey. A MASSIVELY painful game 2 in the SCF. Kings poised to go up 2-0 on the road and then massive stupidity with 1:45 left gives the Habs a last minute power play (and a 6-4 advantage with the goalie pulled). Habs tie it and win it less than a minute into OT, and the Kings wouldn't win another playoff game until 2001.
A friend of mine was so very conflicted about this series. Didn't want Vegas to win, but she is under the delusion that Montreal did something nefarious in connection with the illegal stick penalty. I blame McSorley (and, secondarily, the Kings' equipment manager), but she buys into all the conspiracy crap about the Habs sending someone into the Kings' locker room between games 1-2, blah, blah, blah.... In any event, she even goes so far that she doesn't want any of the Canadian teams to win.
If the Islanders win tonight, I'll be pulling for them to win it all, but I'll root for the Habs over the Lightning, which will piss my friend off.