Hello my name's Matt Whitman this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast in the Stanley Cup champions this year the

Colorado Avalanche that just happened a couple days ago and I'm still euphoric

about it I've been rooting for that team since the very first day that they came to

Colorado and it's been a long time since they've won a cup and they won the cup and I give myself complete permission if my team wins a championship to yell and scream and stomp around and behave in ways that I normally don't.

I just don't let myself go like that very often and it's so much fun.

It was great.

They were the best team end to end all year. They cruised through the

playoffs with very limited speed bumps. They played the best team. You got to beat the best,

to be the best, and the Tampa Bay Lightning who they played they won the

last two cups they're a great team and so for Colorado to beat them and win it

it was just awesome and one of the things that happens in hockey culture,

for those of you who haven't been around it before,

is it just because of the flow of the game,

there's a lot of stoppages in play play and so a lot of things happen in the

arena to keep the energy up and you know you've got if the goalie holds on to

the puck or there's offside or icing or the puck goes out of play or there's a penalty or there's just a ton of reasons

anytime there's a whistle you're gonna have to do a face off a puck drop and you're

gonna do something with those few seconds while you reset everything and there's no

action happening and so you've

usually got a stadium DJ that picks songs but there's something about the

hockey clientele that makes them way more up for singing along. People sing the National Anthem

really hard in Canada and the United States. They sing along with whoever's singing

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