I'd love to sit here today, at this moment and tell all of you that this is a great series and it's going to get even better. Pittsburgh is really going to even things up in the next couple of games and force a deciding Game 7, but … I'd be lying.
After watching the first two games and the latest morning skate, I'm worried that Detroit is just too good. I'm not sure if they can be beaten. There's even a chance they might get Datsyuk back for Game 4.
after game 4: n shocking fashion, the champs have taken a standing eight-count.
And the solution to what ails the Wings is not exactly rocket science either: Simplify, simplify, simplify.
On their way to a series squaring 4-2 win, the Penguins took a one-goal lead when Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the Stanley Cup finals.
Fellow defenseman Mark Eaton nudged Orpik and told him to check out Detroit's bench after Crosby's goal. The players were slumped over. Exhausted. Nothing close to the dominant, immovable force the Penguins saw last year….
Even worse, Orpik said he noticed Red Wings players getting on each other.
Malkin had a goal and an assist for the game, but the damage could have been much worse, as he and fellow dynamo Sidney Crosby started to dominate, just as the sly, talented and seemingly tireless Henrik Zetterberg appeared to start to wear down.
Crosby's like a shark - he smells bloods, he tastes it out there, he's like a predator, and now that he's got that first goal of the series, all bets are off.
Sounds like the Red Wings might have cracked, eh? Please. Not a snowball's chance in you-know-where.
Fatigue Could Be A Factor For Detroit
What the Wings need, of course, is more of a contribution in the physical department from all of their players.
The special-teams issue: The Wings cruised through the first three playoff rounds with an impressive power play that scored 19 times in 74 chances. Now, the Wings are not only struggling through a 1-for-10 slump against the Penguins…
after game 5: wangs 5-0
Pavel Datsyuk's return from a foot injury was just the tonic the Detroit Red Wings needed as they scored three power-play goals in the second period
His return seemed to infuse the Red Wings with plenty of confidence and verve and put a deeper,
Well, so much for that idiotic blog posting by someone the other day that argued that Red Wings' head coach Mike Babcock had been "exposed" by the Pittsburgh Penguins. As a fan with no specific rooting interest in this series, I can only hope that the return to Pittsburgh on Tuesday night for Game Six results in a Penguins win.Because I wanna see a Game Seven. Because Game Five sucked.
The Red Wings are smart enough to know they haven't won anything and are in for a game Tuesday. Their veterans will benefit from an extra day of rest.
The Penguins, meanwhile, just have to concentrate on winning at home> Bylsma was smart to pull goalie Marc-Andre Fleury on Saturday. He did it at the right time and said the right things to make sure Fleury was not embarrassed.
Though they won only two of them, the Pittsburgh Penguins looked to be the clearly superior team over the first four games of the 2009 Stanley Cup finals.
Then Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings, the league's rightful most valuable player, got in the game.
He is their last line of defence and come Tuesday, he may very well be their last hope.If the Pittsburgh Penguins want their Stanley Cup dream to remain a reality, Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury better be prepared to parry the flurry the Detroit Red Wings will throw at him in Game 6
The showboating and headhunting has no place in hockey. It's obvious Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are the malcontents who run the show and when their game is on they dance and throw it in the face of their opponents. SOUNDS LIKE THE WAHHHHHMBULANCE
after game 6:
It isn't just that there have been missed calls that is troubling. It is also the alarming lack of consistency. WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The words were on the upper level scoreboard that lines the inside of Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh: "It's a Bird Thing." (Sounds rather gay if you ask me.)
Penguins Must Strike Early In Game 7, (sounds legit)
after the CHAMPIONSHIP RING:
Bottom line: any team that can beat the Red Wings four out of five games when the temperature's above 75 deserves to win the Stanley Cup. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
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