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Your 2013 NHL Champion Chicago Blackhawks were certainly characters on the ice. Naturally, you are probably wondering what all those guys are doing with the Stanley Cup? The Heckler is here to help.

“I can’t believe the Predators are trying to make more money when a hot team with a ton of traveling fans comes to town,” said Bill Wakowski, a Hawks fan from Naperville. “What do they think they’re doing, running a business or something?"

Players will also be responsible for providing their own equipment and a car-pool program has been set up for traveling to games. It is not yet known if drivers will receive an allowance for gas money.

Lost among all the controversy of Justin Bieber posing for photos with the Stanley Cup earlier this week while standing on the Indian head in the Blackhawks locker room before his concert at the United Center was a five-minute trip to Wrigley Field to take a picture with the BP Cup.

"No one said this was going to be easy," Kane told a hastily assembled press conference. "Sure, the first couple of nights in bars on Division St., I thought this was going to be a cake-walk, but true champions persevere, even when they find themselves sharing a cold Schlitz with Lord Stanley and delayed passengers at the Chili's in Midway Airport on a Tuesday morning. That's hockey, baby!"

Saying the trophy will look great on the mantel of his fireplace, Patrick Kane continues to seek answers to the question, “Who is Conn Smythe?” the winner of the NHL’s playoff MVP asked in a recent game press conference.

With an extremely busy sports news week in the city of Boston, the Bruins announcement that 23-year NHL veteran Jaromir Jagr will not be invited to return to the team next season fell a bit under the radar.