>>>I'm not a Kings fan usually, but when they play New Jersey I am.
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>>>Nice job putting them away!
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>>This was a really nice story that reminds us why we are sports fans. You just never know. The Kings had a pretty nothing regular season, barely made the playoffs, but they got red hot at exactly the right time. And it proved again the importance of a goalie who is on fire. First time Stanley Cup champs.
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>>The handshake line was as always one of the classiest moments in sports. They spend two weeks trying to bash each other's heads in and then shake hands like gentlemen.
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>Absolutely. Hockey players are, by and large, pretty class acts.

The same can be said of Canadians, who still compromise the large majority of NHL players.

Last fall I passed along a link to you about a sensational series of stories in the NY Times about Derek Boogaard. He was a legendary hockey enforcer whose livelihood depended on his size and fists. He had substance issues but you could tell that at heart he wasn't a bad guy at all. Sad.