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Congrats Chicago Blackhawks & Chicago Blackhawks Fans! Stanley Cup Finals, here we come!
I cannot believe this is happening! This is the first time ever I will get to see the team I was born & raised a fan of play for The Stanley Cup. I had tears of joy running down my face leaving the mall, after seeing the 3rd Quarter in Dicks Sporting Goods(of all places) and I felt so bad for the employees who were ever so nice and other fellow shoppers having to listen to my overexcitement as They won(and yes I appologized profusely to them all). I know my family is excited as ever right now(mostly those in Chicago as well as my parents and sister). I hope they can do it again when it matters most. Congrats Blackhawk Fans! Time to celebrate!
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Congratulations Blackhawks on beating the pants off my Sharks
So sorry Don and all the Fellow Sharks fans on the boards. I know the Sharks played their hearts out too and it was one good fight to the end. I honestly thought the Skarks were going to whip the pants off of us, so I do have to tip my hat off to the Sharks for their vallient effort!
either way, good luck to both them and my flyers. it's going to be a great series.
My cousin reminded me of that the other day, and I had no clue. I was 9 years old then and not allowed to watch it or the playoffs at all. Sadly that year I only remember watching The Bulls win the NBA Finals. My Dh lovesthe Blackhawks & Flyers so he has a Dream Stanley Cup Finals. He only knows I root for 2 Teams Blackhawks & Bruins. It will be a great Finls. Good luck to the Flyers.
My cousin reminded me of that the other day, and I had no clue. I was 9 years old then and not allowed to watch it or the playoffs at all. Sadly that year I only remember watching The Bulls win the NBA Finals. My Dh lovesthe Blackhawks & Flyers so he has a Dream Stanley Cup Finals. He only knows I root for 2 Teams Blackhawks & Bruins. It will be a great Finls. Good luck to the Flyers.
ahh, okay. i'm in the same boat. the last time the flyers were in the finals, i was only 8 as well. with the results of that run though (swept in 4 games!), i'm almost glad i was too young to remember it.
ahh, okay. i'm in the same boat. the last time the flyers were in the finals, i was only 8 as well. with the results of that run though (swept in 4 games!), i'm almost glad i was too young to remember it.
Thanks for the reminder though. I know it has to be quite a sight in Philly (only 3 hours away from us) with the Flyers, and how ironic PA having the Penguins win it last year and The Flyers in it this year. Either way It will be a great StanleyCup Finals. May the best team win! I think also the last time the Blackhawks played in the Stanley Cup Finals in 1992, my sister & I had early bed times dueto summer camp, so there kind of wasn't a way we would have been able to watch.
BeckiO5 - wow, you're a Chicago fan too? (we just had a "discussion" about the fact that we're neighbors, and shop at Wegmans) I am a diehard Cubs & Bears fan, and I do root for the Blackhawks but also don't mind the Caps (now that we've lived in DC for 17 years). We are also DC United fans - the only DC team we like above all other cities' soccer teams (not sure Chicago Fire existed before I left Illinois)
I am actually in St. Paul right now on business, and the waiter I had at dinner is from Naperville - my hometown, and then there was a woman in the bathroom telling a friend about a great dinner she just had....in Naperville! What a small world it is.
Anyway, good luck to the Blackhawks! (They are giving Chicago a reason not to feel so bad about the Cubs' season thus far)
I am a Chicago Fan through and through. My parents were born and raised in Lincolnwood(dad) and Niles(mom) an the majority of my family is still in Chicago Suburbs & City, so my sister & I were truely raised as fans of The Blackhawks, Bulls, Bears, & Cubbies, and we still are true to our teams! Now I do admit I am a Red Sox, Boston Bruins, New Orleans Saints(gotta love being married to a NO Native and true Saints Fan) and DC United Fan. It is a small world we are neighbors, love the same teams, and yes even had a conversation about Wegmans (which they had the Pretzel Rolls at tonight and I picked up a few for us to try, thank you for telling me the Dulles location had
them). I would have loved to see the Cubs and Red Sox play in the World Series in 2003, but I know I will cry seeing them make it to a World Series when that day comes. Chicago Area seriously still even feels like home for me with a lot of family there and spending a majority of my childhood there. I may still be a Born & Raised Floridian, but Chicago certainly holds a special place in my heart as do their sports teams.
Thanks, I have to commend Philly and the Philly Fans too. It was a great Stanley Cup and could have been Game 7. I don't think the happy tears have stopped rolling down my face yet and it has not sunk in! Now it's the Cubs turn to win a World Series for Chicago! DS's Mickey & Minnie Dolls were lucky charms for us in our house.
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! This is the first time ever I will get to see the team I was born & raised a fan of play for The Stanley Cup. I had tears of joy running down my face leaving the mall, after seeing the 3rd Quarter in Dicks Sporting Goods(of all places) and I felt so bad for the employees who were ever so nice and other fellow shoppers having to listen to my overexcitement as They won(and yes I appologized profusely to them all). I know my family is excited as ever right now(mostly those in Chicago as well as my parents and sister). I hope they can do it again when it matters most. Congrats Blackhawk Fans! Time to celebrate!
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