BOSTON — Just nine players remain from the Chicago team that won the Stanley Cup in 2010. But that core plus those acquired to add depth were good enough for the Blackhawks to win another championship Monday night.
“We went through losing basically half a team, even more so,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said after Monday night’s 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins gave the Blackhawks the title in a six-game series.
Key players from that championship team three years ago remained — Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Patrick Sharp, Marian Hossa and Dave Bolland.
Brian Bickell also was on that club, and he scored the tying goal on a feed from Toews with 1:16 left. Then Bolland scored the winner 17 seconds later.
“There’s something about our core,” said Kane, the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs. “Hopefully we can stay together a long time because that’s two Cups in four years, and we seem to only be getting better and better as players as time goes on here.
“We can go up and down the line and name off guys and how they contributed to this team and this game. It’s just a great group.”
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ACHES AND PAINS: Tyler Seguin planned to visit doctors the day after his season ended. He’s not the only Boston Bruin having his battered body checked now that the team’s hopes for a second Stanley Cup in three years are finished.
Patrice Bergeron said he had a broken rib, torn cartilage and muscles, and a separated shoulder. Zdeno Chara wouldn’t talk about his injuries. Neither would Seguin, although he said, “I’ve had the same problems my whole life.”
Seguin had 16 goals during the regular season but just one goal and seven assists in 22 postseason games.
“I’d say 90 percent of us were banged up with something,” he told reporters after the Blackhawks won the Cup with a 3-2 win in Game 6 on Monday night. “I’m sure you guys will hear more and more as time goes on after these few days. We wear so much pride on our jersey, and we fight for each other.
“We need to take this rest, and obviously get our conditioning back up and get ready for training camp.”
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ROLE REVERSAL: Dan Carcillo didn’t play a single minute for Chicago in the Stanley Cup Final. Still, he got to skate around the ice with the NHL championship trophy that eluded him three years earlier when he faced the Blackhawks.
He was a left wing in those 2010 playoffs with the Philadelphia Flyers when they lost the finals in six games to Chicago.
“To be able to come to the dark side, so to speak, with the guys that beat me, it’s amazing to have an organization like this want me,” he said after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup with a 3-2 win in Game 6 on Monday night.
In 2010, Carcillo had two assists in the Eastern Conference semifinals as the upset-minded Flyers — a No. 7 seed — rebounded from a 3-0 deficit to win the last four games against the Bruins. They then beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games before being stopped by the Blackhawks.
On Monday, he was on the winning side.
“It just feels really special,” Carcillo said.
“We went through losing basically half a team, even more so,” Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said after Monday night’s 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins gave the Blackhawks the title in a six-game series.
Key players from that championship team three years ago remained — Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Patrick Sharp, Marian Hossa and Dave Bolland.
Brian Bickell also was on that club, and he scored the tying goal on a feed from Toews with 1:16 left. Then Bolland scored the winner 17 seconds later.
“There’s something about our core,” said Kane, the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of the playoffs. “Hopefully we can stay together a long time because that’s two Cups in four years, and we seem to only be getting better and better as players as time goes on here.
“We can go up and down the line and name off guys and how they contributed to this team and this game. It’s just a great group.”
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ACHES AND PAINS: Tyler Seguin planned to visit doctors the day after his season ended. He’s not the only Boston Bruin having his battered body checked now that the team’s hopes for a second Stanley Cup in three years are finished.
Patrice Bergeron said he had a broken rib, torn cartilage and muscles, and a separated shoulder. Zdeno Chara wouldn’t talk about his injuries. Neither would Seguin, although he said, “I’ve had the same problems my whole life.”
Seguin had 16 goals during the regular season but just one goal and seven assists in 22 postseason games.
“I’d say 90 percent of us were banged up with something,” he told reporters after the Blackhawks won the Cup with a 3-2 win in Game 6 on Monday night. “I’m sure you guys will hear more and more as time goes on after these few days. We wear so much pride on our jersey, and we fight for each other.
“We need to take this rest, and obviously get our conditioning back up and get ready for training camp.”
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ROLE REVERSAL: Dan Carcillo didn’t play a single minute for Chicago in the Stanley Cup Final. Still, he got to skate around the ice with the NHL championship trophy that eluded him three years earlier when he faced the Blackhawks.
He was a left wing in those 2010 playoffs with the Philadelphia Flyers when they lost the finals in six games to Chicago.
“To be able to come to the dark side, so to speak, with the guys that beat me, it’s amazing to have an organization like this want me,” he said after the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup with a 3-2 win in Game 6 on Monday night.
In 2010, Carcillo had two assists in the Eastern Conference semifinals as the upset-minded Flyers — a No. 7 seed — rebounded from a 3-0 deficit to win the last four games against the Bruins. They then beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games before being stopped by the Blackhawks.
On Monday, he was on the winning side.
“It just feels really special,” Carcillo said.