I thought this was the year for Montreal. I thought wrong. The Detroit Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships (11) of any National Hockey League franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens (24) and Toronto Maple Leafs (13). So if it can't be Montreal or Toronto, I suppose I can settle for one of the Original Six, be it Detroit or Boston. They're mostly Canadian players anyways, and Detroit being "Hockeytown" and the team of Gordie Howe, I can cope to a certain extent with the affectionate despair of losing.
The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America. Originally inscribed the
Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated by former Governor General of Canada Lord Stanley of Preston in 1892 as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.
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The Enemy? Canadian born players outnumber American born players on the Red Wings more than 3:1
ReplyDelete.... as a matter of fact (according to their web page) there are only 3 American born players on the whole team.
Apart from Montreal, everyone is more or less the enemy. I'm a lifelong Habs fan.
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After the Canadiens went out (since the Oilers were never in) I rooted for Detroit because I had a friend, dead these ten years, who was a lifelong 'Wings fan. And besides all the Canadian players, their captain is a Swede and I had a Swedish grandmother.
ReplyDelete1924: the year canada sold out to the united states (one time among many more to follow) by expanding to the u.s.
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