Hockey Traditions and The Stanley Cup
NHL June 14th. 2009, 1:00pm
Tradition #1: The handshake line at the end of each playoff series.
Sidney Crosby was late getting to the line at the end of Game 7 and some of the Red Wings didn’t really like it. Via Total Pro Sports:
“Nick was waiting and waiting, and Crosby didn’t come over to shake his hand,†Draper told an Associated Press reporter a couple hours later as he was leaving Joe Louis Arena. “That’s ridiculous, especially as their captain, and make sure you write that I said that!†[NBC Sports]
If you watch the YouTube over at TPS, you’ll notice that some of the Wings wait for a hot minute before skating off in a huff. Let this be a lesson to Crosby. If you’re going to be gracious in victory, do it quickly. After a loss, people are usually looking for excuses to not be gracious in defeat.
/rides off on high horse
//stolen from MLJ batphone
Tradition #2: Taking the Stanley Cup out on the town and showing it a good time.
That’s just what the Penguins did. Just look at the sideshow at WPXI of the Pens bringing the Cup around Pittsburgh to celebrate. At the top of the post, that’s Marc-Andre Fleury holding the Cup out the window at one of the places of revelry. No other trophy is brandied about with such little regard for its own safety. Along with playoff beards, it’s yet another hockey tradition you have to love.
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June 14th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Someone call Draper a Whaaaaaaaaaaaambulance.
June 14th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
The fact that this is even a story shows how racist you are.
/Lebron defenders two weeks ago’d
June 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
order him some whaaaaburgers and some french cries!
June 14th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Malkin drove home from the airport with the Conn Smythe strapped into the passenger seat of his Porsche.
June 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
In his defense, Crosby did have a case of raging vagina
June 14th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
What’s his punishment going to be? NBC is going to have to place its isocam on a player who actually made a difference in the finals?
June 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I can’t believe Draper. What a tool. He acts like when the Wings won the Cup as soon as the game ended they shook hands and didn’t celebrate. Crosby did shake hands but if Lidstrom didn’t start the handshake line 10 seconds after the game ended everyone would have been there.
Way to be a sore loser Draper.
June 14th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Draper needs to shut his cakehole, but that doesn’t change the fact that Crosby is a sniveling little bitch. The Pens have a lot of likable players on their team (actually, pretty much everyone else on the roster), but Crosby is just a whiny little cockmongering milksop.
/only fitting that he was on the bench as real hockey players won the Cup for him
//I hate Ovechkin too, but for different reasons
///hockey is gay anyway
////when do NFL training camps start?
June 14th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
slideshow linky no worky.
June 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
the AP story that this comes from has a photo of Crosby in the line shaking hands. maybe Kris Draper wouldn’t be crying so much if he had contributed anything after they used him in place of Abdlekader.
i really don’t get the Crosby hate. i get that it can be annoying hearing about how great he is, but he’s pretty much backed it up. he was called the next great thing when he came into the league, and has accomplished pretty much everything. youngest to 100 points in a season, scoring title and Hart at 19, youngest captain, Stanley Cup. all the outside pressure in the world, and he’s answered it.