Zdeno Chara stirred the earlier this season when he said the Vancouver Canucks prematurely celebrated their Stanley Cup Final series in 2011. The Canucks won Games 1 & 2 before losing the series in 7 games.
Then-Canuck
Kevin Bieksa refuted Chara's claims, suggesting they were a total fabrication. Classic he-said/she-said.
Current-day Calgary Flame forward
Milan Lucic corroborated Chara's account in a recent interview.
"We used to be able to watch the other team pre-game skate as we were eating pre-game meal,» Lucic said on the Dropping the Gloves Podcast. «Before that Game 6, I don't even know if the Canucks skated or not, but somebody went out and started doing something like [lifting the Cup]."
