Hockey History As Told By Cardboard - Henrik Sedin

No matter how nasty a playoff series gets, regardless of how hard teams go at each other or how much players despise their opponents, when it's over, good sportsmanship always wins out. 

The traditional handshake at the end of a series is a move unique to the NHL.  There were no hard feelings between Henrik Sedin and Joe Pavelski when the Canucks finished off the Sharks in Game 5 of the 2011 Western Conference Finals on May 24, 2011. Or at least, there were no hard feelings expressed at the moment. What goes down after the losing team leaves the ice is a whole different ball game that the cameras don't always capture.  

Regardless, this is just another example of why hockey is the greatest sport on the planet. 

Is It Real...Or Photoshop???

(Is it real, or fake?  The truth is out there.)

This picture had surfaced last year of Michael Jackson dropping the puck in an opening ceremony in Vancouver, circa 1984.  I find it facinating that in this day and age of technology, no one really knows where this photo came from.  The participants to this point have no recollection of this occuring either, although, to my knowledge Mario has never been asked about it.  So the question remains as to it's authenticity.

When you get down to the brass tacks of it, I can find quite a few things here that raise some questions.  I can also find many things that lead me to believe it might be real.  I'm not going to go into my theories quite yet, but if it is fake, the PS'er did a hellava job.

What do you think?

Did we ever get a definitive answer as to whether it was real or not?