What a ride.

Unbelievable.

Duuuuude. I can't ****ing believe it.


What no ones talking about: Thornton, Pavelski combined for 1 EMPTY net goal this series. Hats off to Tanger and the whole D unit core.

The stat I kept thinking about all postseason was shot blocking. It's a key to winning it all.

Pens have the highest shots blocked per game in the Stanley Cup Finals now. Avg. 22.7 shots blocked per game. Simply amazing. Championship teams lay it out on the line. Pens did it well.


The west was so good and th east had no shot is basically what this thread was like. The Pens proved they belong. Sharks PP was 1/11 this series. This defensive unit won't get enough credit.


I'm getting shit faced and loving every minute!


Cheers Pens fans! We're number 1 yet again.

John Tortorella would be proud.

Also, **** that guy.

PENSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!! :):):):):):):)

It's been 7 years since the last to the day. I'm enjoying this one even more. I'm so happy right now for this team and the way they fought.

Crazy how similar the last two pens champ teams have been. (Fired coaches midseason, and weren't in the playoff picture)

I'm suuuure the streets in the Carolinas are oveeflowing with joy

This pleases me...

Sent from my phone using Tapatalk (so spelling be damned!!!)

Hey I get to watch my team win while living in a beautiful state. I'm doing just fine ya ****ing hater.

Your next head coach:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mike Yeo will take over as the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/stlblues?src=hash">#stlblues</a> head coach beginning with the 2017-18 season. <a href="https://t.co/LhbxoP0Xn0">https://t.co/LhbxoP0Xn0</a> <a href="https://t.co/3mke1NzpBY">pic.twitter.com/3mke1NzpBY</a></p>&mdash; St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) <a href="https://twitter.com/StLouisBlues/status/742386268814770177">June 13, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Penguin were shutting passes in the neutral zone like crazy that last period. Wooo hook raise the cup.

Well he is good at losing to the Blackhawks in the playoffs, should fit in perfectly in St. Louis.

I'm dragging so hard today, but I'm still freaking coming down. Stanley cup champs WOOOOOOO!

Looks like you need to add another team to the poll: http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/us/nhl...gas/index.html

NHL announces plans for Las Vegas team

By Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 6:09 PM ET, Wed June 22, 2016

(CNN)Las Vegas will get its first major professional sports league team in 2017 with an NHL expansion franchise, Commissioner Gary Bettman announced Wednesday.

With the addition of the Las Vegas franchise, the National Hockey League will have 31 teams.

Principal owner Bill Foley, a Las Vegas businessman, and his partners will pay a $500 million expansion fee for the franchise.

"The first thing we're going to do is to establish what the culture is going to be for this team," Foley said. "This team is going to be a team built to win. We're going to take care of our hockey players in every way possible."

The team doesn't have a name yet. Foley, a graduate of West Point, said he loves the nickname of his alma mater, the Army Black Knights. But the team will work with the league to consider several ideas for names, he said.

Foley said he hopes to have a name by the time the NHL season starts in the fall so the franchise can begin to sell jerseys and other merchandise.

The yet-to-be-named team will play at the new T-Mobile Arena, which will have 17,368 seats for hockey. More than 14,000 people have put down season ticket deposits, a factor Bettman said helped Las Vegas' expansion bid.

The commissioner described Las Vegas as "vibrant, growing and a global destination."
"We think this is a tremendously exciting opportunity, not just for Las Vegas, but for the league as well," he added.

Some observers have raised concerns about the effect that gambling may have on the integrity of pro sports played in Vegas. Bettman said fans likely will be able to bet on games played in the city, but "we don't worry about the integrity of our game."

The arena will host an NHL preseason game on October 7 between the Los Angeles Kings and the Dallas Stars.

The expansion is the first for the NHL since 2000, when the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild entered the league.

Quebec City's bid for an expansion team was deferred, Bettman said. He cited the recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar, the league's geographic imbalance and the thought it would be best to bring only one team in right now as reasons for putting the decision on hold.

The Las Vegas team will play in the Pacific Division for the 2017-2018 season. It will select 30 players -- one from each opponent -- in an expansion draft next year. There was no word on where its minor league affiliate would play or when that team would begin operations.

Las Vegas is already home to several professional sports teams, including the 51s, a Class AAA baseball team; the Sin, an indoor football team; and two indoor soccer teams.

The city has also hosted many world championship boxing matches, mixed-martial arts fights, NASCAR races, a PGA Tour event and was once the home to a Canadian Football League team.

I nominate Rain Man as first one on the bandwagon!