I just saw Chris Kuntz score a game winning goal in double OT to send the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup. The goal eliminated the Ottawa Senators who took the Penguins to seven games.
The elimination means Canada will have to wait another year for the Stanley Cup to come home. No Canadian team has won Lord Stanley's Cup since 1993 when Jacques Demers led the Montreal Canadiens to its 23rd Stanley Cup championship besting Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings.
So if a Canadian team wins next year it will end a 25-year drought.
As for this year, the Penguins host the Nashville Predators who are making their first Stanley Cup appearance starting on Monday night. Nothing against the people of Music City, but when I think of Nashville I do not think of hockey. The same cannot be said for Penguins who are the defending Stanley Cup champions who defeated the San Jose Sharks in six games in 2016. Fans of the Senators, Canadiens, Leafs, Oilers, Flames, Jets and Canucks will have to wait until next year.
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