WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama saluted the NHL’s Boston Bruins for their 2011 Stanley Cup championship on Monday, citing the city’s run of professional team championships in recent years.
The Bruins won their first Stanley Cup title in 39 years last June after a bruising seven-game final series against the Vancouver Canucks.
It was the latest in a string of Boston sports championships, including the Celtics in 2008, the Red Sox in 2007 and the New England Patriots in 2005. The Patriots play in next month’s Super Bowl.
“The Bruins, the Sox, the Celtics, now the Patriots. Enough already, Boston,” Obama said during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. “What’s going on, huh?”
Obama also jokingly invoked some New England slang in welcoming the Bruins, along with the Stanley Cup, to the White House.
“I know you are all wicked happy to be here,” he said.
The president said there was no better image of the Bruins’ dominance than when Zdeno Chara, the team’s 6-foot-9 defenseman, hoisted the Stanley Cup above his head in Vancouver in celebration last spring.
“Which is, I’m sure, the highest that the Stanley Cup had ever been,” he said.
Obama drew laughter from the crowd when he
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