On this day in Pens history: Max Talbot plays the hero, Sid and Geno win their 1st Stanley Cup

[cvrle1]

It was on June 12th 2009 and Talbot decided to be a hero and scored both goals in the game 7 of cup finals against the wings. MAF made leaping save in the last second of that game, Geno won Conn Smythe and Sid became youngest captain in NHL history to hoist the cup.

Good times.

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[K Fleur]

11 years and still no handshake coming. Suck it Detroit.

 

[Andy99]

Didn’t we also win the 2017 Cup on this date? 2016 I believe was yesterday...

 

[cvrle1]

Didn’t we also win the 2017 Cup on this date? 2016 I believe was yesterday...

You flipped them around. 2017 was yesterday (11th) and 2016 was today as well. Good call.

 

[EightyOne]

Feels like it was a dream

A different quantum timeline ago

 

[Gurglesons]

Definitely the quintessential cup for me. I was not really coherent enough to remember the 90s run.

 

[SomeDude]

If I live to be 100 I will never forget the feeling of seeing that clock hit 0:00.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Definitely the quintessential cup for me. I was not really coherent enough to remember the 90s run.

2009 Game 7 is so special to me.

I was with a bunch of my friends who are either Habs fans or do not care about hockey.

They were casually watching while having a drink. I was glued to the TV not paying attention to them and only yelling at the TV. When Fleury made the save, I yelled so loud that my friend's roommate who was walking back from work heard me two blocks away and knew the Pens had won.

Champaign was so good that night!

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

My birthday is June 11th and seeing them win two cups the day after then seeing them win the back to back on my birthday was peak sports bliss.

Family and I were nervous wrecks during game 7. Those last few mins were the most terrifying and exciting moments of just about any game I’ve watched. That save by Fleury is still amazing.

also thanks, Talbo you legend

 

[Scandale du Jour]

My birthday is June 11th and seeing them win two cups the day after then seeing them win the back to back on my birthday was peak sports bliss.

Family and I were nervous wrecks during game 7. Those last few mins were the most terrifying and exciting moments of just about any game I’ve watched. That save by Fleury is still amazing.

also thanks, Talbo you legend

#frenchcanadianheroes

 

[ColePens]

My birthday is June 11th and seeing them win two cups the day after then seeing them win the back to back on my birthday was peak sports bliss.

Family and I were nervous wrecks during game 7. Those last few mins were the most terrifying and exciting moments of just about any game I’ve watched. That save by Fleury is still amazing.

also thanks, Talbo you legend

Happy birthday good friend.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Talbot was my favorite Pen before this game and then became my all time favorite after it. Thanks Max!

 

[canadianguy77]

Staal yelling "What the f***?" at the linesman after taking the face-off for the 2nd time after a false start with like 16 seconds left, was classic. Stripes did everything they could to give that game to the Wings, and we're here 11 years later and wings fans still feel like they were cheated out of that cup.

 

[EVGENIMERLIN]

Happy birthday good friend.

Thank you, my friend. #Bulletclubforlife

 

[HandshakeLine]

11 years and still no handshake coming. Suck it Detroit.

How rude. I'm right here.

 

[K Fleur]

How rude. I'm right here.

Top 2 HF name all time and it’s not #2.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

2009 Game 7 is so special to me.

I was with a bunch of my friends who are either Habs fans or do not care about hockey.

They were casually watching while having a drink. I was glued to the TV not paying attention to them and only yelling at the TV. When Fleury made the save, I yelled so loud that my friend's roommate who was walking back from work heard me two blocks away and knew the Pens had won.

Champaign was so good that night!

I'll always love it for it being the breakthrough to get my Montana friends to 'get' hockey.

I'll never forget running laps around the Steelers bar in Missoula high-fiving everyone there after nearly passing out when Fleury made that final save.

It was surely an interesting sight for a group of people who insisted that they never saw me smile

 

[ColePens]

Top 2 HF name all time and it’s not #2.

Meeeh I have @Don'tcry4mejanhrdina as the #1 name of HF. Remember.. @HandshakeLine was a name change. He gets negative points for that.

 

[K Fleur]

It really felt like MAF had shed his “bad in big moments” label when he made that save. He was incredible in games 6 and 7 of this final. Then the next 5ish years happened.

 

[ColePens]

Actually amen to that @K Fleur . Game 6 is a game i haven't watched in a long time. I watched it the other day on NBC as they ran the whole Pens series. His breakaway save in the final minutes... WOW. He made timely huge saves.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Meeeh I have @Don'tcry4mejanhrdina as the #1 name of HF. Remember.. @HandshakeLine was a name change. He gets negative points for that.

“A man does not choose his nom de guerre, it is chosen for him” - some dipshit historical fiction author.

 

[Ozz]

I went to all the possible Cup winning games each year. After failing to see them win in person in 08, the win in 09 made it all that much better! My stomach was in knots I almost couldn't enjoy the game.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

11 years and still no handshake coming. Suck it Detroit.

One of these days I'm going to pull up the feeds from 08 vs 09 to compare when the buzzer went off to when handshakes started

 

[Khelandros]

One of these days I'm going to pull up the feeds from 08 vs 09 to compare when the buzzer went off to when handshakes started

It's all just petulant children whining about their team just as they are about to regress. It isn't that the Pens took their time to go shake hands, it's that the Wings players lined up before the Pens were done celebrating and then b-lined it for the dressing room when they got to the end of the line.So Kris Draper with his whole "Crosby didn't shake our captains hand" is more a reflection of Lidstrom GTF out of there and less about Crosby actually not shaking his hand.

 

[K Fleur]

One of these days I'm going to pull up the feeds from 08 vs 09 to compare when the buzzer went off to when handshakes started

I love that Crosby didn’t shake hands with that sore loser team’s captain and that it drove that loser fanbase crazy. If anything I think it adds to his legacy