Posted AT 5:09 AM EST on 06/06/08
Welcome to Cleary Country
It is a dot on the map, a tiny Newfoundland town tucked off the western shore of Conception Bay. "They came and settled this lovely place," says an anonymous poet on its website, "and rightly named it Harbour Grace."
Now Harbour Grace is also Daniel Cleary Country, and surely someone will write a poem about that too. For on Wednesday night in far-off Pennsylvania, the Detroit Red Wings forward became the first Newfoundlander to hoist the Stanley Cup.
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