Stanley Pics and next year’s schedule
There are a few posters over at HF Boards who live in fairly close proximity to a few Red Wings. So that means they’ve been able to get pictures of the players with the Cup, either in person or through the local paper. Ti-Girl knows Darren Helm and she’s posted some awesome pictures of the young grinder posing with the Cup:
Pimping ain’t easy - unless you’ve got the silver goblet
This one’s a little more restrained:
Helm shreds Stanley whilst air guitaring
HDW was able to get some pictures when Jonathan Ericsson had the Cup and posted them over at this website. The gigantic defenseman does what comes naturally and poses with the Cup lifted triumphantly over his head.
I hope that’s a replica sweater or he might have grown to 7′6″
I have a similar story but no pictures since I wasn’t there. My brother got married a couple weeks ago and a bunch of us got together after the rehearsal dinner for a drink or two at Sean O’Callaghan’s in Plymouth. One of my brother’s college friends lives in the neighborhood and it turns out Chris Osgood also lives in the area. Well he tells me that one night he’s there with his wife and who shows up at the bar but Chris Osgood with the Stanley Cup. His wife was able to take a picture of him drinking out of the Cup. He had a copy he’d printed up on a laser printer and pulled out for all of us to see. That was pretty cool.
On to next year’s schedule. The good news is the Wings will play every team in the NHL. Detroit will get Pittsburgh twice which should be a great matchup for the NHL and will no doubt give Pensbloggers plenty of ammunition while they work on their Marian Hossa photoshops. The Leafs will be in attendance on opening night when the Wings raise their latest Stanley Cup banner to the rafters. The Habs will visit the Joe but unfortunately the one game against Alexander Ovechkin and the Caps will be on the road. Sergei Fedorov has to be happy tho since he won’t get booed.
The first long road trip takes place in late October as the team plays Chicago, LA, Anaheim, San Jose and Vancouver over 9 days.
The next big road trip takes play in mid-January when the Wings will face off against Dallas, Anaheim, LA, San Jose, Phoenix and Columbus over a 17 day stretch. So at least there is some spacing there as the NHL All-Star game is likely to take place some time between the Phoenix and Columbus games.
There are two short trips to Alberta and BC, where the Wings face Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver in late November and then make a return trip to take on Calgary and Edmonton in late March.
The bulk of the games against the Central Division will take place later in the season. Detroit will face each opponent six times, but 14 of those 24 matchups will take place over the last 2.5 months of the season.
Oh yeah, in addition to playing each other at Wrigley Field in the Winter Classic, the Wings and Blackhawks will square off in the final two games of the season. Those could end up being two pretty important games. Will they play a role in determining which team wins the division? Will the Blackhawks need points in those games to secure a playoff spot? It remains to be seen but the schedule is yet another sign pointing to a rekindled rivalry between Detroit and Chicago.
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