After one of the greatest Stanley Cup Conference tournaments in recent memory, here at MeiGray we know one thing ... We will win our second straight Stanley Cup!!
One year after the Boston Bruins brought MeiGray its first Stanley Cup champion since 2004, when the NHL-MGG Program worked with the Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning and the Stanley Cup Finalist Calgary Flames, MGG has two teams in the Final again. It's the first time in eight years I will be running back and forth between locker rooms in the Final.
And we couldn't be prouder of the playoff runs of the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils.
I will be at Prudential Center all day today, authenticating and logging the Set 1 Final jerseys that will be worn by the Kings and Devils.
For those of you not familiar with MGG's Stanley Cup Final procedure, MGG program teams wear two new sets of home and two new sets of road jerseys in the Stanley Cup Final, all with the unique Stanley Cup Final patch.
Set 1 Final in each color is worn by the program teams until one team in the series reaches three wins. Once a potential clinching game occurs, program teams switch to Set 2 Final. And that set, in each color, is retained by the team.
I can confirm that both teams have prepared an extra jersey for presentation to the Hall of Fame: Kings captain Dustin Brown and Devils captain Zach Parise will wear an additional jersey in warmup only to be donated by the teams and MGG to the Hall of Fame for their annual Stanley Cup display.
After the game, I will be in both locker room areas confirming the jerseys worn throughout the game, and completing our normal post-game authentication.
Stay tuned here throughout the Finals, as I will try and report on all the great jersey nuances that will occur throughout the Stanley Cup Final.
Good luck to the Devils and Kings. Here's hoping it's a great series.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
We'll be in Staples Center for Game 3-Check out our Game-Worn Jersey Exhibit: History of Kings' Playoff Moments
Ohhhhh baby.
The Kings are making playoff history game-by-game, and MeiGray will be in Staples Center tomorrow for Game 3 of the Western Conference Final vs. the Phoenix Coyotes. Come say hello to me when we introduce a new Game-Worn Jersey Exhibit, A History of Kings Playoff Moments.
We will be displaying a few of the great moments in Kings' Stanley Cup history with the actual game-worn jerseys from those great moments. Deadmarsh, Taylor, Lessard, Stoll ...
The best part of the exhibit is what's to come ... some of the best moments in Kings' playoff history are being made now ... and MeiGray will be there to bring them to you collectors throughout the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
We'll be on the Main Concourse near Section 109, by the Guest Services window. Some please come over, say hello, and share in some of the great moments of the Kings' past ... while we all are witnessing the great moments of the present.
The Kings are making playoff history game-by-game, and MeiGray will be in Staples Center tomorrow for Game 3 of the Western Conference Final vs. the Phoenix Coyotes. Come say hello to me when we introduce a new Game-Worn Jersey Exhibit, A History of Kings Playoff Moments.
We will be displaying a few of the great moments in Kings' Stanley Cup history with the actual game-worn jerseys from those great moments. Deadmarsh, Taylor, Lessard, Stoll ...
The best part of the exhibit is what's to come ... some of the best moments in Kings' playoff history are being made now ... and MeiGray will be there to bring them to you collectors throughout the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
We'll be on the Main Concourse near Section 109, by the Guest Services window. Some please come over, say hello, and share in some of the great moments of the Kings' past ... while we all are witnessing the great moments of the present.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Don't Jinx Your Team by Worrying About Jinxes
This is the time of year when everybody's worrying about jinxing their team.
Don't worry.
It doesn't matter what jersey you're wearing, or what you ate, or where you parked outside the arena ... because everybody else is worried, too. I got a chuckle this weekend as the LA Kings finished their sweep of the St. Louis Blues. Once a MeiGray program team reaches the Stanley Cup semis, we get a flood of requests for Finals jerseys.
And virtually every request we got last night said the same thing ... "I don't want to jinx them, but ..."
Think about it. The only jinx that matters is the one about being worried about jinxes. I didn't say the word no-hitter for the first 40 years of my life, and the New York Mets, my beloved baseball team, still has not thrown one in nearly 8,000 games of their existence.
Now I say no-hitter during every game after a Met gets a 1-2-3 first inning ... and they still haven't thrown one. I'm starting to believe I have nothing to do with it.
If you requested a Finals jersey for the Bruins last season after they won Game 7 vs. Tampa Bay, how did that work out?
By the way, I had planned to blog this on Saturday ... but I didn't want to jinx the Kings yesterday.
Don't worry.
It doesn't matter what jersey you're wearing, or what you ate, or where you parked outside the arena ... because everybody else is worried, too. I got a chuckle this weekend as the LA Kings finished their sweep of the St. Louis Blues. Once a MeiGray program team reaches the Stanley Cup semis, we get a flood of requests for Finals jerseys.
And virtually every request we got last night said the same thing ... "I don't want to jinx them, but ..."
Think about it. The only jinx that matters is the one about being worried about jinxes. I didn't say the word no-hitter for the first 40 years of my life, and the New York Mets, my beloved baseball team, still has not thrown one in nearly 8,000 games of their existence.
Now I say no-hitter during every game after a Met gets a 1-2-3 first inning ... and they still haven't thrown one. I'm starting to believe I have nothing to do with it.
If you requested a Finals jersey for the Bruins last season after they won Game 7 vs. Tampa Bay, how did that work out?
By the way, I had planned to blog this on Saturday ... but I didn't want to jinx the Kings yesterday.
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