from Risto Pakarinen at NHL.com,

The alarm went off at 1:40 in the morning yesterday here in my home in Stockholm. That gave me five minutes to get my head back on straight, and my mind focused on the task at hand. Fortunately, the task was watching Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final.

I’ll admit, I hadn’t got up in the middle of the night for all of the Final games. OK, OK, enough, you don’t have to twist my arm. Sure, Game 6 was the first time I was awake at 3 a.m. to see Sid the Kid and “Lidas” battle it out for the Stanley Cup.

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