Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup!!!!

For anyone who doesn’t know Jason very well this may come as a surprise to you. He is a HUGE hockey fan. He loves the game! So when our Chicago pro hockey team (the Blackhawks) made it into the playoffs Jason was pretty excited. When they made it to the semi-finals Jason was super excited but when they made it to the Stanley Cup playoffs Jason was beside himself with excitement!!! He informed me that if they won he was definitely going to be buying a few things.

No matter where we were Jason made sure to follow the Blackhawks – even at the hospital with Rob and Tiff as they were trying to have a baby Jason would check his phone to find out the score. Well as you can guess by the title of the blog the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup! The final game was an away game and it actually ended a little weird – no one knew for sure if they had won or not – a bit anti-climatic. But as soon as it became obvious that they had indeed won Jason jumped up from his chair and yelled! You’d have thought that he had won the cup himself. He was sooo excited. I was pretty excited as well.

Chicago was all abuzz with Blackhawk fever. If you thought it was crazy when the Bears went to the Superbowl you should have seen this city when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. Non-stop partying and Cup watching…the team that wins the Stanley Cup Finals gets to take the Stanley Cup to their hometown – each player gets a day with the cup. The first few days I don’t think the team ever slept they were spotted everywhere with that silver prize.

A couple of days after the winning game the city held a parade in the team’s honor. Nothing unusual about that until you saw the crowds. The city was packed!!! Just to give you an idea of the crowds that normally attend an event like this…when the White Sox won in 2005 – over 30,000 people showed up for the parade in their honor. The planners of the Blackhawk parade were expecting about 25,000 people to come – hockey didn’t seem as popular as baseball. Well the final count of people on the parade route was over 2 MILLION!!! That’s right – basically the entire state of Utah in the streets of Chicago to watch the team and the treasured Stanley Cup pass by.
And guess who was there to see it all – Jason! He and some other people from work walked down to the parade route in order to see all the fuss. He thought that they were pretty far back in a side street (about 15 rows back) until he turned around right before the parade reached him and saw the street he was on went back an entire block – over 40 rows of people crammed into a small side street. He had never seen so many people in such a small area. He got some great pictures and actually saw the Stanley Cup in person.


So needless to say my husband was very excited for his team…and we now have a bathroom in our home in honor of the Blackhawks. Our upstairs bathroom has a red and black color theme and when I mentioned that we needed some pictures in there Jason suggested the Blackhawks…why not! Go hawks!!!!