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You know what they say about watching the NHL. All you have to do is tune in for the last two minutes. Oh, wait. That’s the NBA. A team trailing in an ice hockey encounter with less than two minutes remaining in the game generally is hard-pressed to tie. And so it was that the Chicago Blackhawks pressed hard and tied Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Monday night (June 24) on a Bryan Bickell goal with 1.16 left.
Looks like a winner: Maddie Abrams appears pleased with the Blackhawks’ performance. Credit: Don Bersano / Bersano Photography
* A team locked in a tie game with less than 20 seconds remaining in regulation generally is hard-pressed to prevail before overtime. And so it was that the Blackhawks pressed hard and scored on a Dave Bolland goal with 19 seconds left. And won the game 3-2 and the series 4-2 for their second Cup crown in four seasons. And it all happened because owner Rocky Wirtz put home games on television a few seasons ago. Or something like that.
* When are the Blackhawks going to win a Stanley Cup on home ice? The 2010 one happened in Philadelphia. Yeah, that’s the team’s weakness.
* The downside to the Hawks winning the Cup? For Danny Wirtz (son of Rocky), who was at Game 6, it came postgame. He tweeted: Gasp! Drinking a non @WirtzBevIL bubbly – tastes ok but ice up the good stuff in CHI.
* And if you think that’s bad, ABC in Chicago cut into hockey celebrating and away from Alyssa Milano and cohorts for the final minutes of “Mistresses. Oh, the humanity!
* Just a wild guess that there will be no offseason talk about the possibility of the Blackhawks replacing Joel Quenneville as coach.
* Biggest upset in the series? It just might be Hawks goaltender Corey Crawford not being named Most Valuable Player. That honor went to Patrick Kane. As these words are being crafted so carefully typed, he undoubtedly is high. Mainly becuse the Hawks plane back to Chicago is in the air. By the time you read this, the team will have landed. And partied. And partied some more. Your guess when Kane will come down from his high — non-jet variety — is as good as anybody else’s. In time for the parade? Uh, sure. Whatever you say.
* Were those folks throwing bottles and other objects in the streets of Chicago after the game really celebrating? Maybe auditioning to show classic cases of arrested development. Or auditioning to be arrested.
* Well, maybe you can pardon some of the transgressions by a part of the crowd in Wrigleyville. Only because presumably most people who tend to be in that vicinity are unaccustomed to this thing called a “championship.” Oh, yeah, they won one in ’08. Of course, that would be 1908. Whatever.
* The police didn’t horse around with the Wrigleyville rowdies. Nothing quite like being on horseback to keep the peace. My money’s on the horses — or the guys on the horses — in those confrontations every time.
* Doing a late-night live shot in Wrigleyville and not expexcting rowdy types to fill in the background is like waiting for the sun to rise in the West. Not gonna happen. Even if Channel 5’s Phil Rogers did his best to push back — literally — against such activity. He also informed the TV audience the crew wasn’t using lights because people tend to be attracted to them (much the way moths are to flame). Gee, who knew? Oh, yeah. Everybody.
Hockey video, anyone? A little Jonathan Toews — courtesy of Comcast SportsNet — displaying his (presumably) best moonwalk moves. Plus a “Hockey Night in Canada” season-ending montage accompanied by the Rolling Stone’ “Gimme Shelter.” Hawks fans will be disappointed there isn’t more footage of their heroes. Such is life. Full of disappointments. Oh, wait. The Hawks won the Stanley Cup and you’re going to whine about this? Puh-leaze!!
As has been noted around here during the Blackhawks-Bruins series, a creative mind (meaning nobody affiliated with elliottharris.com) suggested running Miss Finland photos because Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask is from Finland. So we have done so and used video as well. With the hockey season over (with the exception of the Hawks’ celebratory parade), it seemed reasonable to run one final video of Miss Finland winners:
OK, here we go with our daily dose of non-gratuitous video (thanks to the diligence of the editorial and video departments at elliottharris.com and the fact that they don’t know the meaning of “gratuitous” — along with a bunch of other words):
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