If fans watched Game 6 of the 1999-00 Stanley Cup Final, then just about everyone recalls Petr Sýkora being unable to skate around the ice with the Stanley Cup and celebrate with his New Jersey Devils teammates that June night in Dallas, TX.
The 1995 first-round draft pick was knocked out of the game thanks to an unnecessary hit from Dallas Stars defenseman Derian Hatcher. Sýkora then watched his teammates raise the franchise’s second-ever Stanley Cup from a hospital bed. Head coach Larry Robinson and Patrik Eliáš honored their friend by wearing his jersey during the postgame.