National Hockey League Stanely Cup 2010

The puck was thrown on goal, there was a collective pause inside Joe’s Bar on Weed Street, and then the bubbly flew like it was the inside of the Blackhawks’ locker room for the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Winners.

As Patrick Kane’s arms shot skyward on the TV screens after his National Hockey League Stanley Cup-winning goal, a mass of Blackhawks fans started to party like it was 1961. After 49 long years without a visit from Lord Stanley’s treasured chalice, the city that loves its Cubs, White Sox, Bulls and Da Bears went crazy for Da Blackhawks.

Cars honked their horns all over the city, fans flooded into the streets near Wrigley Field and United Center and inside Joe’s — the official Hawks’ road watch party headquarters — strangers hugged, high-fived and “Do-do-do’ed” to the sounds of “Chelsea Dagger” several times over.

Champions of the 2010 season National Hockey League Stanley Cup for the 2010 Season.
“I’ve been watching this team for years, and this is just unbelievable,” said Brian Farley, 25, of Chicago. “Just seeing Jonathan Toews lifting that Cup over his head and (Marian) Hossa … it’s just unbelievable. They’re an awesome group of guys to watch.”

Farley, who proudly wore a signed No. 48 David Koci Hawks jersey that his aunt won a few years ago, won double on the game. He also had a side bet there would be more than five goals scored in Game 6.

Another Hawks sweater stood out on the patio, where Naperville residents Amanda Pociask, 23, and Erin Parker, 26, stood with hundreds of others whose eyes were riveted to a large projection screen of the game on the wall of a building.

Pociask wore her father’s youth league “Hawks” No. 10 sweater, which was an actual wool sweater with the famed Indian head logo faded on the front. It looked straight out of 1961. 

National Hockey League Champions Blackhawks, adding to Chicago’s top Sports Teams.

Information from the National Hockey League website  http://www.nhl.com