2014By Matt Yoder on

As more and more teams get social media savvy, moving beyond soulless PR speak and terrible hashtag ideas, these fun stories are popping up more often.  The @LAKings account was one of the pioneers in the field of entertaining official team accounts that actually contained human emotion and were worth following.  And now after getting involved in a (now victorious) bet with the Blackhawks for the conference finals, they find themselves trading barbs with the @NYRangers account before the Stanley Cup Final.

Ah yes, the “Final,” that grammatical point of contention that divides hardcore hockey fans from casual ones.  You see, the Stanley Cup Final does not have an “s” attached to the end of the word like the NBA Finals.  I suppose it makes logical sense because it is just one final series for the cup.  However, they do play multiple games… so I do see both sides of the coin here.  And to make it even more confusing, Wikipedia calls it the Stanley Cup Finals.  (Never cite Wikipedia as a source!)

Nevertheless, that one little letter is something hockey fans take SUPER ULTRA SERIOUSLY.  Call it the “Stanley Cup Finals” on Twitter and you’ll probably get at least a dozen hockey fans wearing their own personalized jerseys in their avatar telling you they don’t want you in their exclusive club of “real” hockey fans.  There will probably be a swear word or two in there as well.

So when the LA Kings tweeted about making the Stanley Cup “Finals” the Rangers were waiting to pounce and get the first shot across the bow before the puck even drops in Game 1…

I’m going for the Kings in 7 games, both on the ice and in 140 characters or less.  There’s just too much firepower to shut them down if this series goes the distance.

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