What a great series, so enjoyable to watch. The on-ice celebration afterwards is always great, too. Like golfers, hockey players are almost always class acts.
Like Steve Levy of ABC/ESPN just said, the series ended in a good way. Florida was the best team during the regular season and through the playoffs until stumbling and almost blowing it and deserves the first championship in team history. Edmonton avoided an embarrassing end to their season and acquitted themselves very well even though the sting of defeat after two months of battling in the playoffs and coming so close is brutal. Connor McDavid, the best player in the sport, won the Conn Smythe trophy even though he plays for the losing team. And going even further in the scheme of things, Paul Maurice would have gone down as the coach of the team with the most epic collapse in Stanley Cup Finals history; instead he finally won a Stanley Cup after nearly 30 years of coaching. I like his personality and wit, so glad for him also.
