Ice Hockey
- Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins 4 games to 2.
- The Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
- Zetterberg and his Wings and Sweden teammates Niklas Kronwall and Mikael Samuelsson join the Triple Gold Club, made up of individuals who have won the Stanley Cup and gold medals at the Olympics and World Championships.
- IIHF World Championships: Russia wins the gold medal by defeating Canada in overtime in the final
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Famous quotes containing the word ice:
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)