Saturday mornings at the Strip District are usually busy, but yesterday's crowd seemed a little different than usual. Vendors took the taunting shirts off the tables and made room for official Stanley Cup champions shirts and unofficial "City of Champions" shirts. People gave equal time to chat about Maxime Talbot, the scorer of the only two goals in the final game, as they did to the most valuable player of the playoffs - and possibly the season - Evgeni Malkin. Talbot got his number (and age) drawn on a black and gold cookie, which enjoy plate time next to the youngest captain to win the Stanley Cup, Sidney Crosby, 21.
Some vendors ran out of Marc-Andre Fleury shirts and smaller shirt sizes less than 12 hours after the final buzzer sounded in Detroit. Patrons interrogated vendors about when the locker room shirts, hats and other merchandise would be coming off the trucks.
It was how I envisioned the Pittsburgh in the early '90s after the Penguins won back-to-back championships: happy, buslting and confident in their teams. Plus, people were buying newspapers!
It was a great day to be a Pittsburgher, and Monday will be too. Check back for lots of pictures from the victory parade Downtown.
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