We never knew
Remember when Lightning star Vinny Lecavalier fought Flames star Jarome Iginla in the 2004 Stanley Cup final?
Well, Sun Sports - covering Saturday's meeting, the first since that final - did a nice job retelling the story and added a nugget we never knew. Lecavalier and Iginla were roommates and became fast friends just a couple of months later when they played for Team Canada in the World Cup of Hockey.
(2004 Times photo by Dirk Shadd: The Lightning's Vinny Lecavalier, right, and the Flames' Jarome Iginla were trading pleasantries mere months after trading punches during the Stanley Cup final. Click photo to enlarge.)
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Well, that must've been awkward! :)
Posted by: Stacey | March 12, 2007 at 04:50 PM
Hahaha, I think that's great! They're both too good of guys to really dislike each other, but that fight really personified the feelings of both teams during the Finals.
Great game on Saturday...there's just something about sending Calgary fans home severely disappointed in OT that makes me smile. :-)
Posted by: Erin | March 12, 2007 at 06:01 PM
sorry still don't like him.
Posted by: | March 12, 2007 at 06:10 PM
I'm glad to hear that Iginla was OK after the finals. I thought he'd been kidnapped or something before Game 6, because I sure didn't see him anywhere on the ice!
Posted by: Brian | March 13, 2007 at 07:15 AM
Calgary still sucks!
Posted by: Rob | March 13, 2007 at 12:24 PM
I STILL can't believe no one ever speculated how vinny would have pounded him if Iginla had just taken his helmet off. Its pretty easy to fight when you have a half visor covering your face
Posted by: Drew Baker | March 14, 2007 at 04:01 PM
Goodbye, division title. I'm sorry it had to end this way
Posted by: JB | March 17, 2007 at 12:21 PM
How about a new thread? Name it "10 games to go and we suck." Suck big Icelandic lava rocks.
How on earth do we win another game? Even if we whup the Caps with 2-3 line scoring, so what? The glaring weaknesses have been exposed, again.
Picture yourself as the opposing coach preparing your team to face the Bolts. You're rubbing your hands together because unlike any other club in the league, if you stop 2 maybe 3 guys, you've got the game. Especially when your daughter could punch one past their goalies.
There's no steely resolve once that first goal sneaks through. They'll give you one or two more. Never a shutout, never intensifying to limit just one goal. They ("stood on his head, or it would've been worse...") intensify to hold to 2-3 more instead of 7-8, what B.S.!!)
Lightning? There aren't even any clouds....
Sorry if that was harsh, perhaps I'll feel better after a wee dram this afternoon.
Uh, Ward was amazing last night...
Come on you guys....
Posted by: Phantom | March 17, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Wow, a 7-1 spanking from The Caps. At least we got a goal from outside the $20M realm.
With nine games to go this bunch is trying hard to back OUT of the post season.
What is it exactly? Has John Tortorella suddenly gone stupid and forgotten how to coach? The one consistency is the players are letting him down, by increasingly looking out-coached; by lesser clubs and lesser coaches. Who is not getting Coach Tortorella's message? And why are they on the ice? Who is the real Captain, when is the smarmy B.S. and media rhetoric going to stop and we charge out onto the ice to dominate, utterly dominate anybody else out there on every dad gum shift???
Can we get Coleman back for our two thin slices of Swiss cheese in net? No, Anaheim will want us to sweeten that deal further!
The answers may arrive this summer. I've already got my list of meatheads to throw off the island.
Lighning Pride.....
Bring up the Falcons!
Posted by: Phantom | March 18, 2007 at 04:53 PM
to see Vinny fight is a big surprise but i still wouldnt want to be on his bad side
Posted by: Finnley | September 20, 2007 at 08:33 PM