The Montreal Canadiens have gone home for the summer. (They played well.)
The Boston Bruins and Detroit Red Wings and Washington Capitals are looking to next year.
We're down to the Stanley Cup finals.
The second seed in the Western Conference against the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference.
The Chicago Blackhawks, one of the "Original Six" teams, who haven't won the Cup since 1961, when Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita led them to victory. The Blackhawks are a very good team, led by Winnipeg native Jonathan Toews (pronounced "Taves") and Thunder Bay's Patrick Sharp. Not to jinx them, but I'm rooting for these guys.
The Philadelphia Flyers, one of six teams brought into the league with the 1967 expansion, who won the Cup in 1974 and 1975. The "Broad Street Bullies", a team with a .576 lifetime winning percentage (second only to Montreal). They barely made it into the playoffs this year, but have outlasted New York Islanders, Boston Bruins and Montreal in their quest for the Lord Stanley's prize. Led by Ontario natives Mike Richards and Chris Pronger, we would be foolish to count these guys out.
Which team is being cheered on by the most Canadians? I'd like to know!
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