Just call them a dynasty.
For the third time in the past six years, the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, this time defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 in Game 6 to clinch the title. Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane scored the goals for Chicago—Kane's first of the series—while Corey Crawford stopped all 25 shots he faced.
Keith and Crawford comprised two of Game 6's three stars of the game, with Keith coming in as the first star and Crawford as the second.
According to SportsCenter's Twitter account, these players also helped the Blackhawks win the Cup in Chicago for the first time since 1938. Their two previous championships in this current run of dominance (2010, 2013) were won on the road.
Here's the moment when the Blackhawks lifted the Cup, with captain Jonathan Toews passing it along to veteran defenseman Kimmo Timonen, who nearly had his career ended by blood clots and will be retiring after this season:
It was a classy move from Toews, though would you really expect anything less from hockey's consummate captain?
Keith was awarded the Conn Smyt ...
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