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In the same vein as The Sons of Sam Horn in 2004,
Win it for ...
The fans of the Raleigh Icecaps
The Icecaps were our ECHL team (1991-1998) displaced by the arrival of the Canes - their fans have waited the longest for a Raleigh hockey team to win a title (the Icecaps never won the Riley Cup; the closest was a loss in the finals in 1994)
The Polar Regions
Wikipedia entry
Glen Wesley
Who has waited the longest among all active NHL players (and eighth all-time in games played without winning a Cup) and who is the last link on the current roster to the Hartford Whalers
Wesley remains on own cup quest (Chip Alexander, The News and Observer, 5/18/2006)
Still Looking for a Cup After All These Years (Jason Diamos, The New York Times, 5/28/2006)
Cup-starved Wesley hopes this is finally the year (A.J. Perez, USA Today, 5/8/2006)
The fans of the New England and Hartford Whalers
The Hurricanes began in Boston as the WHA's New England Whalers (1972-1979) and joined the NHL as the Hartford Whalers (1979-1997) - they won the Avco Trophy in their first season and never came close after that - their fans suffered through not only many tough seasons and bad trades but also the loss of their team to Raleigh
Hartford Whalers Booster Club
Brass Bonanza and the Hartford Whalers
The Blowhole
Hartford Whalers Hockey.com
Wikipedia entry
  
Jeff Daniels
Who served the franchise well as an unsung player, and who now as an assistant coach has been an architect of this remarkable season
Legends of Hockey entry
Chuck Kaiton
Who, as a Hockey Hall of Fame announcer, has broadcast Whalers and Hurricanes games since the franchise joined the NHL and has never announced his team winning the Stanley Cup
Kaiton's Corner
Eric Cole
Who will be unable to play any more this year and was a key player all season
Return not in Cole's cards; CT scan shows vertebra isn't healed, ending his season (Luke DeCock, The News and Observer, 5/27/2006)
(We were all wrong about that - 'Unbelievable' return for Cole;
Recovered Cane provides spark (J.P. Giglio, The News and Observer, 6/20/2006)
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First Round Game I attended:
First Round, Game 2: Montreal 6, Carolina 5 (OT)
Stanley Cup Final Games I attended:
Final, Game 2: Carolina 5, Edmonton 0
Final, Game 5: Edmonton 4, Carolina 3
Final, Game 7: Carolina 3, Edmonton 1
Carolina Hurricanes.com
- 2006 Playoffs Archive
- 2006 Stanley Cup Final Archive
Hockey Hall of Fame
- 2006 Stanley Cup Journal
- 2006 Stanley Cup Journal Gallery
- 6/20/2006 - Game 7 Triumph (also Camcorder Coverage)
- 6/23 - Rally in Raleigh
- 6/27 - Awards and Rewards (Vancouver, BC)
- 6/30 - Rod Brind'Amour, Mike Commodore (Campbell River, BC)
- 7/4 - Eric Stall, Cam Ward (New York City, NY)
- 7/7 - Peter Laviolette (Franklin, MA)
- 7/11 - Wally Tatomir (Essex, ON)
- 7/14 - Justin Williams (Cobourg, ON)
- 7/18 - Glen Wesley (Jacksonville & Cary, NC) - while I wasn't there in person, 4 of my Canes sweaters were in photos with the Cup and Glen Wesley at the Colonial Baptist Church in Cary
- 7/21 - Jim Rutherford (Beeton, ON)
- 7/25 - Marshall Johnston (Bemidji, MN)
- 7/28 - Matt Cullen, Aaron Ward (Fargo, ND; Detroit, MI)
- 8/1 - Peter Karmanos, Chad LaRose (Orchard Lake, MI; Fraser, MI)
- 8/4 - Cory Stillman (Peterborough, ON)
- 8/8 - Kevyn Adams (Clarence, NY)
- 8/11 - Martin Gerber (Zurich, Switzerland)
- 8/15 - Anton Babchuk, Oleg Tverdovsky (Kiev, Ukraine; Omsk & Moscow, Russia)
- 8/18 - Frantisek Kaberle, Josef Vasicek (Kladno, Prague, & Havlickuv Brod, Czech Republic)
- 8/22 - Niclas Wallin (Boden, Sweden)
- 8/25 - Mark Recchi (Kamloops, BC)
- 8/29 - Eric Staal & Erik Cole (Thunder Bay, ON; Oswego, NY)
- 9/1 - Bret Hedican (St. Paul, MN)
- 9/5 - Doug Weight (St. Louis, MO)
- 9/8 - Mike Commodore & Ray Whitney (Edmonton, AB)
- 9/12 - Cam Ward (Sherwood Park, AB)
- 9/15 - Andrew Ladd (Maple Ridge, BC)
- 9/19 - Craig Adams (Calgary, BC)
- 9/22 - Andrew Hutchinson (East Lansing, MI)
- 9/26 - Management, Scouts & Training Staff (Raleigh, NC; Farmington Hills, MI; Hartford, CT; Boston, MA; Raleigh (Falls Lake)/Wake Forest/Greensboro, NC; Bradford, CT; Kitchener, ON; Guelph, ON; Poulsbo, WA)
- 9/29 - Keepers of the Cup (Walt Neubrand, Mike Bolt, Bill Wellman, Mike Pritchard)
- 10/3 - Official Engraving
- 10/6 - Banner Raising
- ESPN.com also has two reports of players' days with the Cup:
Player's 'day' means more than Game 7 victory lap (Scott Burnside, ESPN.com, 8/17/2006)
NHL.com
- 2006 Stanley Cup Final Archive
- 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs Daily Archive of Stories
CBC
- CBC Sports Online
- CBC Sports Online - Hockey
- CBC Sports Online - NHL Playoffs 2006
More at
- newsobserver.com
- WRAL.com
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