The Chicago Blackhawks are in Los Angeles tomorrow, making something of a reunion for Colin Fraser, who won the Cup with the Blackhawks two seasons ago. It’s always a fun question: What did Fraser do with his day with the Cup?
FRASER: “First, I played street hockey with my buddies, right outside my parents’ house back in Langley. Then I did a public appearance where I played my minor hockey, in Surrey. I did a presentation with the Cup, and then pictures and autographs and stuff after, for a couple hours. Then I just went back to my parents’ place for a couple hours and had dinner, just the small group so we could enjoy it and take family pictures. We just hung out. Then I rented out a lounge at a restaurant and I had all my family and friends, like 78 people, and we just drank beer and had fun. Everybody got to drink out of the Cup and take pictures with it and all that fun stuff.’’
Question: So, the guy who tends to the Cup, he’s just hanging out all day? When you eat dinner, it’s you, your family and the guy who tends to the Cup?
FRASER: “He’s there all day. He’s a good guy. He’s not like, beside it the whole time. He’s in the background, I guess, but he’s got his eye on it. You can’t just grab it and lift it. His rule is, nobody is allowed to lift it over their head except the guy who won it. That’s his rule. So nobody did that. And if we were pouring drinks out of it, I had to pour the drinks. I could get help from someone, but my dad just couldn’t pick it up and start saying, `Hey, get some of this,’ if I was in the bathroom or something. But they were not real strict. They were pretty good, pretty flexible, and it was obviously lots of fun.’’
Thats right Anaheim, let the Hawks get all of the goals out of their system before we play them tomorrow. You just knew it was going to go downhill after Hayward mentioned Bobby Ryan “sticking his big butt in there” earlier in the game. Aaaawwkwwaaarrrrdd.
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FiG17 Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
@DesertKing,
Yeah… watching that too. Also notice how many Blackhawk fans are there? I really hope that’s not Staples tomorrow night.
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KingBob [chi] Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 3:30 pm
@FiG17, I am afraid so. Hawks travel real good in L.A.
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DesertKing Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
@FiG17,
Well, at least my 2 seats will have Kings jerseys sitting in them tomorow night!
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USHA@17 Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
@DesertKing,
Which color, white, black, purple, gold or silver? And which edition of your chosen color?
I guess if you were a Hawk fax the choice wouldn’t be so difficult.
DesertKing Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
@DesertKing,
Wearing the Luc jersey!! My son will be wearing his Greene jersey.
Sounds like a blast!! And the more I watch Frasier play, the more I like him!
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am I the only one who cringes a little when I hear about non-hockey players touching the Cup? Maybe I am old fashioned, but I like that players never touched the Cup until they won it and non-hockey players never touched it. Oh well, I guess I’ll just be happy when a current King is holding it up.
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Bonvivant1 Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
@txkingsfan, We need more consistency for that to happen. That debacle in Dallas was inexcusable.
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KC23 Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
@Bonvivant1, How dare the Kings only get 3 points out of 4 on back to back road games against 2 of the better home teams in the conference.
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Forum to Staples Fan Reply:
November 26th, 2011 at 9:42 am
@KC23, +1
Michael_DD8 Reply:
November 26th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
@txkingsfan,
Most hockey players that have a dream to play in the NHL, or hope to one day, know to not touch the cup until you’ve won it. In these cases mainly, most of these people will never have a opportunity to actually win it.
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I haven’t been able to catch up on the hockey world for a little awhile, so would anyone care to explain to me why the Kings were wearing their dark jerseys on the road against St. Louis and Dallas? Was there any reason for the reversal?
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Gustavo Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
@Alexb20,
‘Cause they could?
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KFII Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
@Gustavo, Because the home teams chose to wear their whites. The team travels with both colors just in case.
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Steve W Reply:
November 25th, 2011 at 9:49 pm
@KFII, But they wore their ‘new third jersey in both games, not the home jersey.
chip Reply:
November 26th, 2011 at 1:31 am
@Alexb20, Ugly bleach accident? Purple is the new black? They were on top in the drawer?
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Memories… pressed between the pages of my mind…
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chip Reply:
November 26th, 2011 at 1:35 am
@Shakes, I don’t think that E could skate. No winger there. But he could probably get Red to fetch somebody who could.
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