Sentences with phrase «stanley cup win»

This surprised few people in hockey - mad Canada, which is also poised to celebrate Vancouver's first - ever Stanley Cup win after 40 years in existence.

The Boston Bruins were at the White House on Monday afternoon, celebrating their 2011 Stanley Cup win with the President of the United States, Barack Obama.

With a two - time Stanley Cup winning core of players including former Norris Trophy winner Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar and Jeff Carter, the Kings shouldn't have too hard of a time becoming relevant again in the Pacific.

Having said that, I think his name carries value and he could be a vital part of a Stanley Cup winning team.

Not exact matches

Giving the UN credit for the fall in global poverty is a bit like an NHL goal judge claiming he won the Stanley Cup because he turned on the red light when the winning goal was scored.

Jonathan Toews # 19 of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrates by hoisting the Stanley Cup after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning by a score of 2 - 0 in Game Six to win the 2015 NHL Stanley Cup Final at the United Center on June 15, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.

This week, three of these U.S. veterans — Army Major D.J. Skelton and veterans Stacy Bare and BriGette McCoy — along with former pro athletes Mike Richter (who won the Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers) and former NFL players Harry Carson and Don Davey, will be in New York City to talk about exactly this subject: how to find community, purpose, and growth when everything about the community you've committed yourself to ends.

Chances of winning the Stanley Cup and chemistry with teammates and coaches rank higher for NHL players, says Walsh.

With Neely at the helm, the following year the team won the NHL's Stanley Cup.

The Tampa Bay Lightning heads north to face the Boston Bruins after a 4 - 2 win in Game 2 of Round 2 in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

There was the Oklahoma City bombing, the San Diego tank rampage, the New Jersey Devils winning the Stanley Cup in a lockout shortened NHL season, and some former Buffalo Bills running back named OJ getting into trouble out in LA.

I have prayed that the Toronto maple Leafs finally win the Stanley Cup all the time... So do I think there is a God?

Eighty years later, no such demonstration of piety in La Belle Province could be imagined — except if Les Habitants, otherwise known as the Canadiens, won the Stanley Cup, and that would involve a rather different sort of piety.

But, he added, when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup the year they started drinking COCO5 «it just kind of spring boarded... to the point where we started getting phone calls from grocery store guys» asking for the product.

Yeah but when you take the Cup - winning teams that you listed and realize that those stretches account for 18 of the 39 Stanley Cups between 1976 and 2015, there are going to be a lot of teams that can claim they kept running into those buzzsaws in the playoffs.

At 40 years old, Alfredsson is close to retiring and it is possible he thought the Red Wings were closer to winning a Stanley Cup.

Montreal also swept the Stanley Cup playoffs with eight straight wins over Chicago and Toronto in 1960.

Kane came on strong late in the playoffs, scoring seven goals in Chicago's final eight games as the Hawks won their second Stanley Cup since 2010.

And in the meantime, Thornton is back to help try to finally win a Stanley Cup in San Jose.

NOTES: The Lightning bested their previous mark for wins set in 2014 when they went 50 -24-8 en route to reaching the Stanley Cup Final.

When the Chicago Black Hawks won the Stanley Cup in 1961 they broke a string of five straight championships by the Montreal Canadiens (1956 - 60).

Most impressively, he remained cool under pressure in the Stanley Cup Final as the upstart Edmonton Oilers came back from a 3 - 1 deficit to force a Game 7 in which Ward made 22 saves while protecting a 2 - 1 lead until Justin Williams» empty - netter with 1:01 left nailed the win and the Cup.

Duncan Keith won the Conn Smythe Trophy, scored the game - winning goal and led the Chicago Blackhawks past the Tampa Bay Lightning to win the Stanley Cup.

The Chicago Bulls won their fifth title in seven years last week; the Detroit Red Wings clinched their first Stanley Cup since 1955 earlier this month.

Justin Williams returned to Carolina, where he won a Stanley Cup in 2006, after eight seasons elsewhere.

But it's quite a walk out on a limb any time a player makes a win guarantee in a Stanley Cup Final.

Duncan Keith led the Blackhawks to a 2 — 0 win over the Lightning in Game 6 on Monday night, helping Chicago capture its third Stanley Cup in six seasons.

He scored five of his seven goals on the power play while leading the Flames to their only Stanley Cup, won in a six - game final vs. Montreal.

The Stanley Cup favorites were obviously favorites to win the West as well, despite getting bounced in the first round of this year's playoffs.

The Capitals are best when Holtby is best, and it's a lot more believable that this team could win the Stanley Cup in front of Holtby than Grubauer.

Last year we explained that following the Zig - Zag theory is a winning strategy during the NBA postseason, but I wanted to determine whether it was also profitable during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Sportsbook was the first book to release early 2016 - 17 NHL Stanley Cup odds and neither the Sharks or Penguins were favored to win it.

The Penguins have been one of the top contenders from the preseason and are the clear favorites to win the Stanley Cup.

Earlier this morning, Dom Luszczyszyn from The Hockey News posted an interesting article which examined each team's probability of making the quarterfinals, semifinals, finals and, finally, of winning the Stanley Cup.

if during their first year in the league, the golden knights won more stanley cups than the blues or any nhl hockey team from the state of minnesota were able to win in 95 total seasons of existence

Senators got a big 2 - 1 overtime road win in Game 1 over Pittsburgh but are still slight dogs to advance to the Stanley Cup.

Boston opened +2800 to win the Stanley Cup, but sharp money has caused that number to plummet down to +1605.

The Capitals may not be offering value, but by comparing Luszczyszyn's probabilities with the implied odds for each team to win the championship, I was able to determine which Stanley Cup futures were offering a positive expected value.

Hitchcock is fourth on the NHL's all - time coaching wins list and has one Stanley Cup under his belt.

Known as a bunch of characters who would rather fight than switch off, the mettlesome Flyers showed their finesse to win another Stanley Cup

The LA Kings opened as favorites to win the Stanley Cup at +500 odds at Sportsbook, followed by the Blackhawks and Stars at +750 odds.

The last hometown club to win the Stanley Cup was the Vancouver Millionaires in 1915, so Cup fever was high.

New York won its third straight Stanley Cup as sharpshooter Mike Bossy fired bull's - eyes in an imposing sweep of Vancouver's Canucks

All in all, it would have been almost inconceivable that the Islanders wouldn't win the Stanley Cup.

Despite winning the 2012 Stanley Cup, the Los Angeles Kings still don't get any respect and people constantly make mistakes regarding details of their team.

And in this World Series, no one really cares that the Blackhawks just won a Stanley Cup.

This time though, a poll on Yahoo! committed the error and asked if the Los Angeles Lakers will win the Stanley Cup.

With a roster that is almost identical to last year, they should be the odds on favorite to win the 2013 Stanley Cup.

Oh, P.K. Only he would say such a thing after a huge Stanley Cup Final win.

As Ken Dryden, a six - time Stanley Cup — winning goalie and now Canada's Minister of Social Development, said, «There are a number of fans in this country who have sensed over the last... months that maybe [NHL hockey] was more habit than it was passion.»