Stanley Cup

It’s exactly three months and two days since the Los Angeles Kings won the Stanley Cup, the most special award in all of sports. The elation is still with me. I anticipate another glorious season, especially since I’ll be attending the game at which they will raise the banner in the Staples Center!

I remember the intense joy I felt when I saw that puck go into the net. I still get chills when I think of it. The on-ice celebration went on for quite a while and I thought I’d share a couple of my favorite images from that.

Here’s one showing Alec Martinez and Kyle Clifford shortly after the winning goal. What is sweet about this picture is poor Lundqvist, defeated. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.

Next, there is nothing cuter than a baby in the Stanley Cup and Kyle Clifford’s baby, Brody, was so totally adorable with his fuzzy hair. It’s amazing that the little guy was sleeping, but I remember when my kids were babies. They could sleep through a lot. Later, there was a family photo and, man, Clifford’s wife is really pretty! She actually looks exactly like how I imagine the heroine of my work-in-progress would look. Her name is Emily Greene. Mrs. Clifford looks like an Emily, doesn’t she?

Last spring, I rewrote the lyrics to “My Favorite Things” from the Sound of Music, adapting it to the Kings’ situation in the Playoffs. I had a lot of fun writing it. When I tweeted “My Favorite Kings,” Patrick O’Neal, color man for Kings Live for Fox Sports West, liked it and told me he sang it. I was thrilled!

My Favorite Kings

(To be sung to the tune from the Sound of Music)

Shots stopped and gloves dropped and sweet empty netters

Stanley Cup patches on LA Kings’ sweaters

Brownie our Captain, a cunning Right Wing

These are a few of my favorite things.

Both Jons in goal on the road to the Playoffs

Richards and Stolly both winning the face-offs

Jake in the box for a hit with some sting

These are a few of my favorite things.

When the Shark bites

When the Hawk strikes

When it’s looks like war

I simply remember my favorite Kings

Will capture the Cup once more!

Foxy and Evans, O’Neal and Miller

Shorthanded goals made by penalty killers

Number eleven, that nimble Slovene

These are a few of my favorite things.

Pucks cleared and Pens’ beard and multiple hat tricks

Power plays gained off of somebody’s high stick

Nolan and Clifford both taking a swing

These are a few of my favorite things

When you lose teeth

When your team’s beat

When it’s looks like war

I simply remember my favorite Kings

Will capture the Cup once more!

Men in black jerseys who kick ass and take names

Road trips that finish a series in four games

Carts on a break’way: my heart starts to sing

These are a few of my favorite things

Lewy and Dewy, a match made in heaven

Clogging the lanes we see “old” number seven

Days with Lord Stanley and Tiffany rings

These are a few of my favorite things

When your skull cracks

When your knee’s whacked

When it’s looks like war

I simply remember my favorite Kings

Will capture the Cup once more!

I wrote a second song this spring about the San Jose Sharks, to the tune of “When You’re a Jet” from Westside Story. I liked the upbeat tempo, compared to the sort of melancholy tone of the first tune. This song was strong and masculine with an in your face attitude.

A Sharky version of “When You’re a Jet” Westside Story

When you’re a Shark

And the Kings come to town

Gonna choke, gonna fall,

Goin’ all the way down.

When you’re a Shark

You are destined to lose

It’s no walk in the park

You’ll be payin’ your dues.

You’re hardly a threat,

Your shots will be deflected.

You’re weak in the net:

When the Cup’s given out,

You’ll be neglected!

Then you’ll be done

With a capital D,

Say hello to the greens.

Put your ball on the tee.

When you’re a Shark,

You stay a Shark!

I didn’t get much of a response to that. I’m thinking, as a woman in her fifties, my taste in musicals is too old and few of my followers had even heard of that song/movie/play.

This time, I decided to choose a song from Grease, which is somewhat newer. Anyway, here’s what’s going on in the Stanley Cup Final right this moment, in song. If you know the tune “Summer Nights,” I hope you’ll enjoy it. If you don’t know the song, you should probably just skip this. LOL