Frabjous Times

Maybe it's the just the circles I run in, but the lack of buzz over the New Jersey Devils playoff successes here comes to me as a surprise. The last time they were won the Stanley Cup Finals, we were in Denmark (I remember hearing of their victory at our B&B in Odense, hometown of Hans Christian Andersen), so I missed the hype or lack thereof at the time. The contrast with my previous place of residence, the sports-crazed town of Pittsburgh, seems to me extreme.

Here's an interesting quote from the

Few goaltenders have had better starts to the Finals. Toronto's Frank McCool shut out Detroit in the first three games of the 1945 Finals. Clint Benedict (1926 vs. Victoria) is the only other goaltender to open the Finals with two shutouts.