Since probably no one saw it live I thought I would make sure everyone knew the Anaheim Mighty Ducks won the Stanley Cup last night. Anaheim worked the Ottawa Senators all series and won the series 4-1. A few key notes to mention from the series: the Mighty Ducks have been in the league for 14 years, the Cup will reside in a western home for the first time ever, and a team from Canada hasn’t won the Cup since Montreal did in 1993.

The Buffalo Sabres are on FIRE to start the 2006-07 NHL season. They extended their team record to nine straight wins to start the season and are within one victory of tying the 10 straight wins the Toronto Mapleleafs achieved in the 1993-94 season. The Sabres play in Long Island this Thursday against the 3-3-2 New York Islanders with a chance to tie the NHL record.  Last night Chris Drury scored his tenth goal of the season in the 4-1 vicotry over the Montreal Canadiens. It’s definitely early in the season, but Buffalo at this time looks like they are really hungry to win a Stanley Cup.

Game Recap: Buffalo Sabres

The last time Edmonton won the Stanley Cup was 1990 and that was the fifth time they had done so in seven seasons.  The years with Gretzky, Messier, Kurri and others have long since been gone though and so was Edmonton’s prominence until now.  Last night Edmonton became the first eight-seed ever to make the Stanley Cup with a 2-1 victory over the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.  The Oilers won the series 4-1 and relied heavily on their goalie Dwayne Roloson.  The Ducks outshot Edmonton in every game including a 33-25 performance last night, but Roloson stopped all but one of them.  The Stanley Cup normally ends up over the head of the goalie who gets in the zone during the playoffs and right now Roloson looks like that man.