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Florida, the state of pastel-wearing vice cop Sonny Crockett and Cocaine Kingpin Tony Montana, can also boast of back-to-back Stanley Cup Championships, The Florida Panthers won their second-straight Stanley Cup last week, defeating The Edmonton Oilers 5-1, taking the championship series 4 games to 2.
IN COMPARISON, Minnesota is called 'The State Of Hockey', yet NO Minnesota team has EVER won The Stanley Cup. NEVER. The North Stars left Minnesota in 1993 and finally won The Cup in 1999 after they left and became The Dallas Stars.
In the last ten years, Teams from Miami (Florida Panthers), Tampa Bay, Las Vegas, and Carolina have won Stanley Cup Championships. Since 1993, No team from Canada has won the Stanley Cup. Detroit, also known as 'HOCKEYTOWN', hasn't won a championship since 2008. Maybe Miami should be called 'HOCKEYTOWN'. They're the ones winning the championships.
Your bushy-tailed correspondent (I reside in Minnesota) still follows The National Hockey League even though no professional team in Minnesota has even made it to the finals since 1991 when The North Stars lost to The Pittsburgh Penguins.
The lone franchise in Minnesota, The Minnesota Wild, has NEVER made it to the finals. in it's 26-year history. My rule of thumb is that if there's a hockey game somewhere I root for the team based furthest North.
Somewhere in my mind is the belief that hockey belongs to places where there is normally snow and ice on the ground outside. If your team normally experiences a GREEN Christmas without snow and ice on the ground, then hockey doesn't really belong in your city.
Northern tprofessional hockey eams remind me of real Christmas trees and Southern teams remind me of fake Christmas trees.
Maybe it's time for me to change my thinking. As a Conservative Republican I can start rooting for Southern teams because Southern cities tend to be more conservative. Miami is one of the few major cities in America with a Republican Mayor (Francis Suarez), and the state's Governor Ron DeSantis is an excellent, highly popular Conservative. But, do these guys EVEN LIKE HOCKEY?
Then, there was the slight possibilty of Canada becoming our 51st state. During the 4 Nationa Face Off in February, it almost looked like America and Canada might go to war. Before that, I didn't even know that Canucks ever got angry ABOOT anything.
One of these days professional hockey players in Canada will have to muster up enough ANGER and put an end to their Stanley Cup drought. Are they angry ebough to win, or will Florida go for a three-peat? Stay tuned, hockey fans.
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