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2014-2015 Manchester Monarchs - 2015 Calder Cup Champions!

Jordan freaking Weal in tears. Can't wait to see what he can do at the highest level.

Best case scenario on the teams last season in manchester!
 
Brad Doty said:
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What a way to end their time in Manchester with a championship victory! And Kempe probably can't believe that he went from the worst team in Sweden to the best team in the AHL. He was huse down the stretch for them. So excited to see them in Ontario next year.
 
Confession time: I'm from Manchester. This was my gateway team to the Bruins, and while I never regarded myself as a Monarchs fan, I did enjoy the opportunity to get into a game on the cheap and see some decent kids. When I worked at a restaurant in town, a regular took me to a Griffins/Monarchs game in the Griffins family section because he's a family friend of Justin Abdelkader. I went to Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals against Hershey a few years ago, and I was floored to see a 10,000 seat arena with barely 2,000 fans for such a game, but I was educated on how that's actually quite normal for the AHL.

I haven't been to many games lately; I have a wife and daughter now, I'm looking to emigrate to Canada to be closer to her family, and I work evenings, so taking time to go to a game, even as close as two miles down the road, has gotten quite hard. Still, this is fun, yet sad. In the many years under Boudreau and Morris, the team had phenomenal regular seasons, but disappointing playoffs. Who knows if a good run during that stretch would've helped, but now, in their last moment, they pulled it off. The parade will be a blast, no doubt, but reality sets in almost immediately. Once the floats turn back past Veterans' Park, in the shadow of the arena, they'll turn the page, with the team demoted to the ECHL. We'll hear how comparable it is to the AHL, but it isn't. There's almost no chance the same talent will make its way through Manchester again, and I fear that hockey in this city will never be the same again.

As I fall asleep tonight, I might just have the sounds of the full arena back in 2000, with the Monarchs playing the Lowell Lock Monsters, ringing in my ears, because only there will they be heard again.

Ugh, now Ken Cail saying his goodbyes on radio. Too much...
 
kingsboy11 said:
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What a way to end their time in Manchester with a championship victory! And Kempe probably can't believe that he went from the worst team in Sweden to the best team in the AHL. He was huse down the stretch for them. So excited to see them in Ontario next year.
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Huse is am understatement
 
Bittersweet as their time has come to an end - but what a way to go out. What a team.

Congratulations to the Monarchs
 
Pretty cool that they finally got it done, after a few seasons where they had some letdowns, and in their last season. I remember when the Monarchs became the Kings AHL team, and it was the first time in my time as a Kings fan that they had an actual AHL team. Obviously a lot of the guys that won the Cup with the Kings went through Manchester.

Sucks they had to move, but a hell of a last run, from start to finish.
 
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WE WON ****ING CALDER CUP!!!!!!!!!


And with that. I MAY have gone down in Kings fan history. I maybe the only Kings fan to witness both Stanley Cup wins and Calder Cup wins. (I was there in 2012 and of course, I'm here tonight)
 
CTKingsFan said:
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WE WON ****ING CALDER CUP!!!!!!!!!


And with that. I MAY have gone down in Kings fan history. I maybe the only Kings fan to witness both Stanley Cup wins and Calder Cup wins. (I was there in 2012 and of course, I'm here tonight)
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That is definitely cool.
 
those last five minutes were nerve racking for me, love that Monarchs were able to bring a Championship to the people of Manchester which I'm sure is bittersweet for all those involved.

Congrats to the boys and the people of Manchester :clap:
 
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CTKingsFan said:
Okay. Now I can post.


WE WON ****ING CALDER CUP!!!!!!!!!


And with that. I MAY have gone down in Kings fan history. I maybe the only Kings fan to witness both Stanley Cup wins and Calder Cup wins. (I was there in 2012 and of course, I'm here tonight)
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CTKingsFan is our ace in the hole. Absolutely love that you saw them both brother! Especially the latter!
 
Definitely bittersweet, but at least it gives the Kings some light at the end of the tunnel going into the next season. Great farm team, and a pretty darn good NHL club, hopefully the youth can inspire a little more urgency and energy into the group, that along with the long offseason.
 
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