The RED WINGS didn't deserve to win the STANLEY CUP. anyone agree?

Question

if you do agree, then your a true hockey fan.

not only did they have A LOT of cheap shots durring the final, KRIS DRAPER'S DAUGHTER s**+*T IN THE CUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think that really shows how much they wanted and respected it.

Answer 1

The Yahoo! Answers Hockey Section is meant for people with legitimate questions about hockey, not people who just want to take a cheap shot against a team they dislike and their fans... The Red Wings won the Cup, they are a good team. I am a Flyers fan, and I dislike the Devils, but I am not going to make myself look like an idiot by asking a similar question as this in reference to the Devils.

Good Day Sir...

Answer 2

I think Drapers daughter S**t in your ear hard enough for your brain to fall out (assuming you had one to begin with). Promise us you will jump off one of the bridges in Tampa when the Wings repeat next season....Bolts fans dont deserve idiots like you embarrassing them. You have no idea what a "true" hockey fan is, true fans respect the Cup winner every year even if they cant stand the team or one of it's players. Now go back and have your boyfriend hold you again and tell you it will be alright....or get therapy!

Answer 3

alright

pittsburgh-

-crosby

-malkin

-hossa

-fleury

red wings-

-lidstrom

-datsyuk

-zetterberg

-hasek

-osgood

-holmstrom

-chelios

-franzen

-draper

red wings:howe,berman,yzerman,abel

penguins:lemieux,

red wings:11 SCs/17 tries(65%)

pittsburgh:2/6tries(33%)

whos better punk?

2007-2008 season

red wings:

NHL Lifetime Achievement Award

William M. Jennings Trophy

NHL Plus/Minus Award

Lady Byng Memorial Trophy

James Norris Memorial Trophy

Frank J. Selke Trophy

Conn Smythe Trophy

penguins:

nothing?really?shame?shame?

red wings:titletown usa on sportscenter

penguins:nothing

red wings:54-21-7(115 pts)

penguins:47-27-8(102 pts)

Answer 4

Sounds to me like you where struck in the head by "lightning". That was one of the stongest, most talented teams in the last 20years.

Answer 5

I strongly disagree the best team obviously won

it's hard to believe people are still crying about this one. don't worry though I'm sure when they win next year ( they have at least an 80% chance to do it) you will be convinced the better team did win

Answer 6

The Wings were the best team all season long.  If you object to them on moral grounds, fine.  (I don't.) But, competitively speaking, they deserved to win the Cup, though the Penguins did fight back in the last couple of games.

TOM: I like how you called Sid "the crosby." As if he was royalty or something, which is how some people think of him.  Newsflash, people: He's not royalty.  He's just a very good hockey player, and not the best or even the most exciting.  (That would be Ovechkin, and how much you wanna bet he finds a way out of his Washington contract someday, and he ends up with... the Wings?)

Answer 7

OK, they won fair and square. I'm the biggest pens fan ever, and i think that they deserved to win, don't be a sore loser. its there choice on what they wanna do with the cup. heck in 92 pens threw it in there pool, and then they fixed it up and polished it, as long as they CLEAN it it's fine, i feel terrible for that little girl. shes gonna go down in history as she crapped in the cup.

Answer 8

if the penguins werent as young and inexperienced they would have taken the cup. they just never stepped up to the cup finals level.

Answer 9

The Wings totally deserved the Cup!!!  I'm not saying that because I'm a fan of them.  I'm a Montreal Canadien's fan always was and always will be.

I think Detroit deserved it because year after year they finish in the top 5 teams in the league.  They never get good draft picks and they manage to recruit amazing players.  Goes to prove how good their scouting team is.

On the other hand you look at a team like Pittsburgh and Ottawa and for those that remember, Quebec Nordiques (now Colorado).  It's pretty easy to get great players when you finish dead last for several years in a row.  Doesn't take a hockey genius to pick Crosby or Malkin when you have first pick.  Ottawa did the same, they were in the basement for so many years.

Answer 10

seriously, it's over with, time to move on!  i'm a pens fan and though disappointed, by all the means the wings deserved it.  they had WAY more experience and totally shut the pens down for the most part after they had only lost 2 games on the way to the finals.  unless you play for the pens, you should be over this by now.  and the whole poo in the cup thing is just funny, not disrespectful.  it was a baby for crying out loud!

Answer 11

Holy S**t, it is July and you are whining still about the Stanley Cup? Grow up! There's nothing you can do to change what has already happened. The Wings deserved to win it.

If the Red Wings didn't deserve to win, how come they got so far in the playoffs and how come they were so good that they won?

Explain that.

and Kris Draper's daughter is probably like a year old...she doesn't know any better. So you would place the reason for why the Red Wings don't deserve the cup in the fact that a BABY had to use the bathroom and did so in the Stanley Cup? wow...that's saying a lot about you.

You're just sore that your favorite team didn't win....well fine, if you want to be that way be jealous of us!

btw, the Stanley Cup isn't a god that rules the universe. It actually is a hunk of metal that hockey players celebrate with after winning a number of games. It is just a game. I know, I know, I just committed blaspheme against the hockey gods....I will go away and hide in a corner where I can hang my head in shame.

Answer 12

What did they change the rules again when I wasn't looking?

I thought that to win the Stanley Cup all you had to do was make the playoffs and win the last game you played. Everything else was academic.

If winning the cup was based on anything other than that then I am at a loss as to what else you must do to earn the win.

Deserving has nothing to do with it.

If a team has the most sell outs in a row don't they deserve to win the cup?

If a team contributes the most to league profit sharing, don't they deserve to win the cup?

If the cup lives all year long in a team's home city shouldn't they deserve to win just so the cup shouldn't have to travel too far from home?

All the above says Toronto deserves to win the cup more than anyone else. So you're right Detroit didn't deserve to win it Toronto did. Those silly American rules are spoiling OUR game.

Peace and Love.

Tom

Answer 13

I'm no Detroit fan, I don' t even like them, but they won. That means they get the cup. They whipped up on everyone, and took the thing home (and yes Draper's baby crapped in the cup) If some other team 'deserves' it next year, I have a feeling they're going to have to work harder than the rest of the teams to do it.

Answer 14

Lightning Lover are you trying to upset the faithful.This is such a candy apple everyone is taking a bite.

At least you are getting the pulses up.Good job

Answer 15

Yes, they deserved it! The NHL did everything they could to get the cup tp Pittsburgh, and Detroit still won it! The played hard during the regular season and harder in the Playoffs! And Kris Draper's daughter is a baby! It's not like she meant to disrespect the cup!

Answer 16

A lot worse things have happened to the Cup than that.

In any case, this is a pretty lame argument. Cheap shots? That's the same lame excuse the loser has used every year for the past 100 years. No one wins the Stanley Cup without deserving it... with the sole exception, MAYBE, of the 1999 Stars. (No goal!) Even then, there is no saying they would not won and "deserved" it anyway, Brett Hull's skate or not.

And as far as Draper's baby is concerned, have you ever had a baby? No one has control over when a baby takes a dump or not. Hundreds of players have put their baby in the Cup in the past 20 years. If Draper's is the only one to make a mess of it, I'd be surprised. Give me a break. A "true hockey fan" would have made a hockey argument for this, not this cheap trash.

Answer 17

I heard about that story, I will leave it at that.  Now why the so called detroit fans are insulting penguin fans, I don't understand.  Yeah detroit won I accepted it.  It doesn't mean they will win next year.  The Penguins will be stronger and maybe they will win it next year.  I am looking forward to next season, I already have the schedule for next year and I believe the Penguins will be a strong team.  And why anyone would bring Therrien into it is messed up.  Obviously if the Pens had split the first maybe they would have won, will never know.  But to classify all penguin fans as whiners is messed up.  It would be the same thing if I grouped all seattle seahawk fans as whiners because they lost the super bowl.  There are going to be a few but don't label everyone as one.

Answer 18

The Red Wings were the best team.  If they beat my team in the Cup finals, I would have still agreed they deserved it.  They had the best players, one of the best coaches, and a lot of team work.  I don't think a team with Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Osgood, Listrom, and Rafalski could possibly not deserve the Cup.  They're all very classy players.  Kronwall landed a lot of huge hits, but none of them were cheap shots.  Maybe late hits, but nothing cheap.

Answer 19

I believe they did deserve the cup.  I am still a true hockey fan.  I don't believe Draper's daughter took a c**p in the cup...even if she did she prolly didn't know better cause she is young.

Answer 20

They did deserve to win it becasue they stifiled the pens offense and shut down the crosby.

Answer 21

Jesus, you are using Draper's baby c**p[ing in the Cup as a argument over why they didn't deserve the Cup???????  Or cheap hits in the finals????

What are you, 8?

Listen, the Cup is won by the best team... period.  You have to accept that.  If you don't then I suggest that you stop following the NHL.  Cheap hits happen... from every team in the league.  That's part of the game.

And whatever happens with the Cup between seasons is up to the players that won it.... they deserved it and they own it during the summer.

Answer 22

as william munny (clint eastwood's character) from "Unforgiven" said:

" 'Deserves' got nothin' to do w/ it".

(responding to someone asking him if a man "deserves" to die.)

besides, i thought that some of those shots were pretty costly ... especially the ones that got by MAF.

Answer 23

Who was going to beat them?  They rolled through the playoffs and dominated everybody when they had their heads in the game.

If they had lost it would be a lack of focus and nothing more.

Answer 24

The cup's had worse things happen to it. I mean honestly, one of the Montreal teams was famous for taking it back to the locker room and everybody peeing in it. One of the 94 Rangers broke the cup off the top and had to take it to a local mechanic to be soldiered back on. There are  lot more. It's found itself at the bottom of two pools (Lemieux and Roy's I believe) Had been drop kicked onto a frozen canal, Was used as a planter for a while... The Story with Draper's daughter will just be a part of cup lore. It's metal. You can't hurt it with body fluids.

The Red wings were by far the best team in the NHL this year. Quite frankly, you're an idiot.

Answer 25

accidents happen and a lot of other teams can tell you about things that have happened to the cup just look on line  the wings won the cup fair and square just ask the TWO referee's on the ice at all times GO WINGS!!!

Answer 26

ok, who did deserve it then?

The team with the best regular season record? maybe

the team with the best playoff record? possibly

the team that won the stanley cup? I think so

oh, wait, that all the same team....The Red Wings :P

I think they deserve it more than any other team

Answer 27

i'm a true hockey fan but i'd have to say i wanted the pens to win the cup but they didn't play well all through the 6 games. i watched every single game & i'd have to say the wings played alot better then the pens did. don't worry pens fan's they will win the cup eventually.

SAN JOSE SHARKS 2009 STANLEY CUP CHAMPS

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 2010 STANLEY CUP CHAMPS

that would make me so happy if my teams one it back to back years.

Answer 28

I agree, but so does everyone else who wants their own home team to win. I believe that you are just being prejudice to the other team, because you wanted your team to win really badly.

Lets Go Caps!

Answer 29

Well, seeing as how I'm a Penguins fan, I am a little bit biased on this question. I don't think it's that the Red Wings didn't deserve Lord Stanley, it's just that they've won too many times. My Pens should have won, but they were too inexperienced. Yes, I agree with you that they did have A LOT of cheap shots. The refs should have called them out more, but what can you do now? It's been months. I say that we all forget about this and look forward to next season. How's that sound?

P.S: I mentioned Draper's daughter taking a c**p in the Cup in one of my questions. I think that's just sooooooo gross. How disrespectful.

Answer 30

Michel Therrien?  Is that you?

If anything, the Penguins were getting away with a lot of non-calls, such as the BLATANT trip at the end of Game 6 that nearly tied the game up.  So don't come here with that cheap shot argument.  It was going both ways.

Second, how much history about the Cup do you know?  People have kicked that thing into frozen rivers, left it along the road, left it in people's basements, thrown it into pools, and multiple kids have taken dumps in it.  It just happens.

Finally, they did deserve to win the Cup because they were the first to get 16 wins.  And you'd figure within the 22 games they had to play the NHL would have notified the refs of any wrong doing by the Wings if they were cheap shoting people.

Answer 31

They won the cup fair and square!! They were well deserving and no lie about that! They were the best team last season and they proved it by winning the stanley cup. Pens didn't give up without a fight but the Redwings were just the better team. Deal with it!