Seibu Prince Rabbits vs. Nippon Paper Cranes, final game, March 23 2009

Seibu captain Takahito Suzuki.	Richard Rochefort	Ryan Kiyoshi Fujita	Joel Prpic
Kazuhito Katayama	Shuji Masuko	Naoya Kikuchi	Fumitaka Miyauchi
Kiyoshi Fujita	Bin Ishioka	Daisuke Obara	Yosuke Kon
Joel Prpic	Go Tanaka	Cranes assistant captain Darcy Takeshi Mitani.	Takayuki Sakai
Toshiyuki Kitoh	Cranes captain Kengo Itoh.	Takayuki Sakai	Kengo Itoh
Yutaro Imamura	Jun Tonosaki	Yutaro Imamura	Huge sign that says "Saikyou", or "strongest"
Cranes cheering group and flag.	Chris Yule	Seibu Prince Rabbits line up before their fans.	Masahito Nishiwaki
Missed goal by Seibu...	Masahito Nishiwaki finds his way out of the penalty box.	Nippon Paper Cranes score the first goal of the game -- Mitani scored, assists by Kengo and Masatoshi Itoh.	Triumphant cranes come back.
Faceoff.	Brad Tiley.	Zamboni goes around the rink between the first two periods.	Masahito Nishiwaki
Ryuichi Kawai	Captain Takahito Suzuki	Prpic and Mitani go at it in a faceoff.	Cranes pileup at their bench after another goal scored.
Kawai and Yule chat before a faceoff.	So do Obara and Nishiwaki... are these guys really mortal enemies??	Cranes goali Hisashi Ishikawa. This dude is unreal.	Joel Prpic stretches between periods; you can see Seibu cheering people in the back.
Cranes captain Itoh.	Chris Yule.	Mitani and Prpic get ready to face off yet again.	The only way to get Ishikawa out of the way is to kill him, I think.
Hideyuki Osawa	Yoshinori Iimura	Yosuke Kon. I'd heard he's a troublemaker but didn't see any of that in Game 7.	Prpic and Mitani face off AGAIN!
Rabbits assistant captain Tomohiko Uchiyama.	This must have been the tenth attempt to take out Ishikawa, but that guy is a rock.	Not sure what's going on here, Kawai doesn't seem happy though.	Yet another try at Ishikawa... and yet another blocked goal.
Prpic and Mitani face off again towards the end of the game.	The Cranes win!	Big pileup on the goal.	Hooray!
Itoh and Yule have a victory hug.	For a 3-2 game, this is a ridiculous number of shots.	Darcy Takeshi Mitani... I still don't think he looks Japanese at all.	The Cranes are the Asia League champs!
Handshakes between the two teams. Prpic is HUGE.	Rink staff are cleaning up the streamers and Mitani is coming by to wave to the fans	The Cranes wave out to their faithful following.	Mitani is taking photos of the celebrations on the rink.
Hisashi Ishikawa was, as deserved, the MVP. He was amazing.	Some guys pose with their medals and hats.	Another group.	The Cranes are given the trophy! They need to skate it around.