When did you know we'd win the Cup?

When was it that moment that you thought, "This is the Ducks' Cup to lose"? When did it really start to set in that the Ducks had a really, really good chance to win the Cup?

Was it before the season?
Early in the season?
Late in the season?
Somewhere in the playoffs?
Somewhere in the 3rd period of game 5 of the Sens?


For me it was pretty much as soon as I heard about the Pronger trade. I knew we had one of the best teams last year and he would just send the Ducks over the top. I was about 75% sure then. It was only confirmed for me quickly with the fast start to the regular season. That brought be up to the 90% range. I didn't hide the fact I thought this team was awesome either, afterall Captian Brightside coined the phrase "Yay 4 Points" due to my over-enthusism.

There's only one moment I started to think it wasn't going to happen: while sitting in the Honda Center during game 3 against Detroit, watching the Ducks get slaughtered on the way to a 2-1 deficit in the series. Winning the next game without Pronger removed any doubt. In between the Pronger trade and that moment, I never thought there was one sign that the Ducks' winning the Cup wasn't going to be reality.

So, who's going to admit now that they were confident all along but didn't want to openly speak about it? Also, who wants to admit I didn't jinx a damn thing all year? :D

After Beauchamin slapped his rocket in... Sealed our fate as champs... Im not gonna say after we got Pronger because it was far from a lock... I could even go as far to say after Perry shot his home i knew we were champs... :handclap:

To be honest, I thought if we got the the lead it was ours. I just didn't think Ottawa emotionaly could make it back.

Alfredson 2 goals suprised me though. He earned some respect back with the way he played. He compete all night long and played like a Captain.

The philips goal was a back breaker though, everything else was just icing after that.

After Beauchamin slapped his rocket in... Sealed our fate as champs... Im not gonna say after we got Pronger because it was far from a lock... I could even go as far to say after Perry shot his home i knew we were champs... :handclap:

Yeah, my question is kind of strange, but it's more about the point where you really said, "I really believe the Ducks can beat any team in the league in a 7 game series".

When we landed Pronger I remember a poster on here saying "Wow, just give the Ducks the Cup and erase the season" or somethign like that. On paper we were the best defense, but nothing excemptional upfront.

As the season started I've never seen our Ducks dominating the play in that way and be so confident in them, I thougt this was going to be our year.

After some injuries the team went back to Earth and I was thinking "Damn it, now they will lose confidence", instead at the end of the season I saw the same powerful Ducks of the early season.

But I admit I realized this was going to be THE NIGHT when McDonald scored the first goal in Game 5.

When we went on that massive winning streak. Sure the team was amazing on paper and had a lot of potential before the season started with the addition of Pronger, but actually seeing your team dominate the start of the season like that really gets your hopes up.

When I learned that Sammy Pahlsson was the supreme commander of the universe.

I actually predicted Anaheim to win the Cup at the beginning of the season, except I predicted an Anaheim/Buffalo final.

Well, I knew that Anaheim will be the Champion, when Scott Niedermayer tied the game 5 in Detroit and Teemu scored at overtime. It was an epochal moment definitively...

I remember at the beginning of the season when they set that NHL record for most consecutive games w/out a regulation loss, I was thinking, "who is going to be able to beat this team 4 out of 7 games?" I knew Pronger would put this team over the top but I didn't think they would be this dominant. It was amazing.

I started to lose a little confidence in the team when the injury bug went through and they had like a 5 game losing streak, so going into the playoffs, I was very worried that injuries would plague them again and they would just fall apart.

Fast forward to that terrible game 3 in the Conference finals--I thought that the Red Wings would use the momentum from the Pronger suspension and just shut the door. I'm not going to lie--I thought it was over. Then games 4 and 5 happened and you just saw that it was destiny for this team to win.

I guess I felt that I knew they were going to win it all when they took a 2-0 series lead in the Finals. I knew that there was no way Ottawa would win 4 of the last 5. It all still seems too good to be true.

I've never believed in another sports team as much as I did so in this one, and that was because they believed so much in themselves.

When Nashville went out in the first round...

After Game Four. I didn't allow myself to believe it would happen in Game Five until Corey Perry put home the exclamation point goal to make it 6-2.

After Game Five of Detroit, I actually thought the Wings were going to come back to win the next two. even when we had the three goal lead in the third period of Game Six, something inside me felt it was going to be a collapse of Brobdingnagian proportions. It's not that I didn't have faith in the team, necessarily. It was just one of those games where I didn't think the lead was secure (and it almost wasn't).

Going into the Ottawa series, I thought we were favorites. Ottawa was just the sort of team the Ducks had success against, but still... anything could happen.

After Game Two of the Finals, the possibility of a championship started entering my head. After Game Three I was crushed and convinced of the possibility of an Ottawa comeback, until a friend of mine from that area, who's pragmatic as heck about his team, told me not to worry. He said there was no way his team could do that three more times.

Still, I was wound up as tight as a spring for Game Four. I lived and died with that game. And when the clock hit zero, I was running around jumping and screaming like we had won the thing. I went out and had a (really late) celebratory beer with friends, talking about everything but sizing up my replica Stanley Cup ring. I didn't want to openly acknowledge it, but an Ottawa fan here on these boards summed my feelings up. A three game comeback was possible... but not against this team. The Ducks wouldn't allow that to happen. So it was just a matter of when.

I didn't know we were likely going to win until we won game 4 of the SCF.

I didn't know we had a decent chance until the win streak in the beginning, when we won despite Teemu and the first line having slow starts. Before the season I was worried about our scoring depth, and the way our 3rd line scored to have that unbeaten streak showed me that we could score enough to win without our top line.

In 1995, when I became a fan.:sarcasm:

But seriously, It still hasn't sunk in totally yet.

We're the champions of the greatest sport on earth?

I keep thinking that this is a belated April fools joke.

Western Conference Finals, Game 5 versus Detroit with the series tied at two a piece. Detroit's up 1-0 with a minute to play and the goaltender pulled during a PP, Scotty Nieds shoots one that deflects off of Nick Lidstrom, barely past Hasek. Selanne goes on to win the game in OT.

Right about there.

After the improbable Game 4 victory on the road, I knew it was pretty much only a matter of time before they won. I tried not to let those thoughts enter my head...but it was hard! :) Of-course, I was a little nervous as well! But I was really hoping they would win on home ice and they did! :handclap:

Well when I went to the first day of training camp I recognized that we had the talent to do it. But the defining moment for me was when the Ducks came from behind and beat Phoenix back in like Feb, you know the one where Teemu won it OT. I looked at that game, seeing the resilency in this group and said to myself "we're gonna win the Cup this year." I mean from top-to-bottom we've had the talent all year to do it but it was instanced like that that cemented it for me. It still hasn't sunked in yet but boy is it nice to say Stanley Cup Champion Anaheim Ducks.

when you got pronger...pretty much dominant team

It was the beginnig of the seaseon i had a funny feeling that this was a special seaseon i still cant believe were the stanley cup champions what a feeling

After Game Four. I didn't allow myself to believe it would happen in Game Five until Corey Perry put home the exclamation point goal to make it 6-2.

After Game Five of Detroit, I actually thought the Wings were going to come back to win the next two. even when we had the three goal lead in the third period of Game Six, something inside me felt it was going to be a collapse of Brobdingnagian proportions. It's not that I didn't have faith in the team, necessarily. It was just one of those games where I didn't think the lead was secure (and it almost wasn't).

Going into the Ottawa series, I thought we were favorites. Ottawa was just the sort of team the Ducks had success against, but still... anything could happen.

After Game Two of the Finals, the possibility of a championship started entering my head. After Game Three I was crushed and convinced of the possibility of an Ottawa comeback, until a friend of mine from that area, who's pragmatic as heck about his team, told me not to worry. He said there was no way his team could do that three more times.

Still, I was wound up as tight as a spring for Game Four. I lived and died with that game. And when the clock hit zero, I was running around jumping and screaming like we had won the thing. I went out and had a (really late) celebratory beer with friends, talking about everything but sizing up my replica Stanley Cup ring. I didn't want to openly acknowledge it, but an Ottawa fan here on these boards summed my feelings up. A three game comeback was possible... but not against this team. The Ducks wouldn't allow that to happen. So it was just a matter of when.

Congratulations! You are the first person to use the word "Brobdingnagian" in HF Board history. I had a little bet going that words like eleemosynary, philatelist, ecdysiast, tryskadeckaphobia, Pleistocene and anthropomorphic all would precede your Swiftian foray.

On a more pedestrian---albeit topical---note, I, too didn't feel certain that the Ducks would win until they won Game 4 in Ottawa. I also felt that the Wings had our measure after they walloped us here in Game 3 and we had to beat them without Chris Pronger in Game 4 in Detroit.

Last night was a great win by a hard-working and talented team. Kudos to Brian Burke for putting it together. Everyone was on the same page. (Anyone who wasn't soon had a one-way ticket to another hockey destination).

Congratulations! You are the first person to use the word "Brobdingnagian" in HF Board history. I had a little bet going that words like eleemosynary, philatelist, ecdysiast, tryskadeckaphobia, Pleistocene and anthropomorphic all would precede your Swiftian foray.

That had to be the third or fourth time I've used it. And I'm sure I've busted out "Pleistocene" and "anthropomorphic" at least once.

When was it that moment that you thought, "This is the Ducks' Cup to lose"? When did it really start to set in that the Ducks had a really, really good chance to win the Cup?



Well, the expectations were there all year. Game 4 win against the Sens reminded me a lot of game 6 of the World Series for the Angels back in 2002. The Angels were down late but made a great comeback. I wish I had been there. I was there for game 7 but it seemed almost anti-climatic because everyone knew they would win game 7 after that comeback. After seeing (well, actually, not seeing since I got home late) the Ducks weather the storm in the first period of game 4, they came back and finished strong and won the game. I had the same feeling going into last night's game as the Angels game.

Great atmoshpere from the start last night. Think it was even louder than the Angels win.

in the beginning of the season
i said Ducks will take it, but i also said they didn't make it to the end, that a West team would win it
i just love the fact the Ducks won all their clinchers at home

Scott Niedermayer's tieing goal in game 5 at Detroit. I knew the second Scott scored the Ducks were destined to win it all. Detroit was the only team that could even remotely match up with the Ducks via style & chemistry. Once they got past them you could bet your house they'd win it all.

in the beginning of the season
i said Ducks will take it, but i also said they didn't make it to the end, that a West team would win it
i just love the fact the Ducks won all their clinchers at home

Undefeated all time in series clinchers at home, right? That's treating your fans right.

Undefeated all time in series clinchers at home, right?

According to Al-Jazeera, yes!