Even Stanley Cup Celebrations Are Getting Hosed By IT Outage

I don't know if you've heard but there is a major IT outage affecting people around the globe and it's causing some serious headaches.

Everything is fine and dandy here at my base of operations (read: the extra bedroom where my girlfriend lets me keep my desk) and I was able to knock out a couple of College Football 25 games this morning, so all is well on the home front.

However, others aren't as lucky (or, if we want to be honest, handsome) as I am, and that includes the most famous trophy in all of sports.

The Stanley Cup is making the rounds with the Florida Panthers and on Thursday it was in St. Louis with Matthew Tkachuk, who took it to a local children's hospital where he had this incredible moment with a very cool kid named Joe.

That, by the way, is how you make a lifelong hockey fan…

Anyway, the next stop on the Stanley Cup's summer tour was scheduled to be at Pagel Arena in Minnetonka, Minnesota where veteran forward Kyle Okposo was surely going to make more memories like the one Tkachuk had with young Joe.

Unfortunately, the global IT infrastructure had other plans.

Are you kidding me?

Poor Kyle Okpsos and all the nice folks in Minnesota who just got completely hosed by this outage.

We talked about it before the Stanley Cup Final started, but I was rooting for Okposo because he has had a great career, but for most of it, he was stuck on middling-at-best teams. 

It was awesome to see him hoist the Cup, but now you want him to get his day with it.

Hopefully, something can be worked out so that Okposo and all the folks in Minnesota and all of those who drove in to celebrate can get some time with Cup.