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Seconds before the Montreal Canadiens made their first-round pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, the television cameras cut to Louis Leblanc. Leblanc, an incoming Harvard freshman and highly-rated NHL prospect, looked around Montreal’s Bell Centre in silent anticipation. The Kirkland, Que. native would soon learn whether his hometown team would be selecting him with the 18th pick overall...
...Pittsburgh Penguins wrested the NHL's Stanley Cup from the defending champion Detroit Red Wings in seven games...
...what degree have you found that covering sporting events for a living has affected your appetite to consume sports as a fan? It changes. I have a casual interest in the NBA. I'm a die-hard NHL fan. I can't get enough. I used to just live and die with college basketball and college football. At some point, you have to concentrate on what you're covering...
...never anticipated that a goalie would use it as a popcorn bowl in a movie theater, like the New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur did over a century later. Stanley bought the Cup as a prize for the best amateur hockey club in Canada. The NHL took control of it in 1926, but the tradition of abuse started at the outset. In 1905, a member of the Ottawa Silver Seven drop-kicked the Cup into a canal. The boys kept the party going through the night, and rescued the Cup the next day. Two years later, the Montreal Wanderers gave...
...something besides our dancers," the club's spokesperson said. The Animal House antics of those '94 Rangers - Eddie Olczyk let Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin eat out of the Cup at Belmont Park, and a couple of other Rangers took it to an MTV beach house - prompted the NHL Hall of Fame to hire minders to keep the Cup out of jail. The Cup Cops, however, will still let Stanley go bar-hopping. And they're kind enough to give players private time with the trophy. They weren't standing in Steve Yzerman's bathroom, arms folded like bouncers...