Blackhawks Up 2-0 in Stanley Cup Finals

Philly Asshole Shows Why He Made My List

Two more wins -- so short yet so long -- until I finally see something I have been waiting a long time to see: the Stanley Cup in Chicago. Although I was alive when the Hawks last hoisted the Cup, I was too young to remember it.

Growing up in Chicagoland in the 1960s and 1970s, I began paying attention to sports during the really dry years of Chicago sports. There was a 22 year championship drought -- the period when I was growing up. The Bears finally broke through in 1986. The Bulls followed with six championships in the 1990s. The White Sox won it all in 2005. The only two teams yet to win: the Blackhawks and the Cubs (muhahaha). This is the year of the Hawks.

Game three is in Philadelphia Wednesday night. I picked the Hawks to win in five games, so I would not be surprised to see the Flyers win game three.

Today's featured player: Chris Pronger of the Flyers, who remains one of the game's dirtiest players and poor sports. Refs won't call cross checks against him, and he tries to get under the Hawks' skins by grabbing the end-of-game pucks and pitching them. Congratulations for demonstrating why you made my recent all-time hockey d-bag list. Well deserved!