There are 30 teams in the NHL only one goes home happy.

Tonight the long road to the Stanley Cup came to an end. Tomorrow the temperature will be almost 90 but somewhere in Western Pennsylvania a group of kids will congregate in a parking lot. They'll bring their mylec pads, their overpriced composite sticks, the jerseys their idols and they will play the game they love.

That is the passion of hockey player. A pure love of the game that makes a person shovel a foot of snow off of a pond just to play a 2 hour pick up game It makes a normally sane person put on 20 lbs of sweaty goalie equipment when the rest of the world is cowering with their central air.

For the first time in my life I saw a professional team play with the same passion and love as the kids in the parking lot.

You may be able beat a team like that in a series but they'll only come back stronger the next time.

Tonight it hurts...But tomorrow is Going to be a Great Day for Hockey