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Tonight’s game, while not quite as long as the previous one, had a ton of excitement and nailbiting. Wow. We were all on the edge of our seats for the last few minutes and I almost fell out of my chair with that last shot right at the buzzer.

Oil up the Winged Wheel, it’s time for another victory parade.

Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup—again.

For the fourth time in 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They used experience and grit to knock out the young up-and-coming Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the finals.

Congratulations Detroit. You earned it!

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If you didn’t watch the game last night, you really missed out. Wow. It went into triple overtime before Pittsburgh pulled off the win.

The pizza was perfect for Petr Sykora and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Deep in overtime and the season hanging in the balance, Sykora scored a power-play goal 9:57 into the third extra session to give the Penguins a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Monday night and send the Stanley Cup finals back to the Steel City for Game 6.

Set your clock for Wednesday night for Game 6.

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Tonight was the game I have been waiting for. There was fast-paced action, and fights. Fast action + Good fights = Great hockey!

The Detroit Red Wings wrecked the Pittsburgh Penguins’ home-ice advantage and gave themselves a shot to hoist the Stanley Cup in Hockeytown.

Jiri Hudler snapped a third-period tie for the Red Wings, who rallied from an early deficit to beat the Penguins 2-1 Saturday night and grab a 3-1 lead in the finals.

Detroit will get the first of three potential chances to win the Cup back home in Game 5 on Monday night.

Monday could be the night.

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The Pittsburgh Penguins took game 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs last night.

The Penguins are 0-for-The Joe but downright perfect at home.

After two shutout losses to the Red Wings in Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, Sidney Crosby scored Pittsburgh’s first two goals of the Stanley Cup finals and carried the Penguins to a 3-2 victory Wednesday night.

It was good to know that, after games 1 and 2, that the Penguins players were still breathing. I had begun to doubt that fact.

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Yowza. I thought the Red Wings were making the Penguins look bad during Game 1. I had no idea what they had planned for Game 2.

If the Red Wings keep this up, the next time they perform back in Hockeytown could be along a parade route.

Producing timely offense and perfectionist defense, Detroit is not only beating the Pittsburgh Penguins, they are shutting them out.

With first-period goals from Brad Stuart and Tomas Holmstrom and another lockdown effort, the Red Wings topped the Penguins 3-0 to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night.

The Penguins better step up their game if they intend to, you know, actually make a goal or two.

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It wasn’t the greatest game in the history of the sport, that’s for sure, but tonight’s game between the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins was okay.

It’s no surprise the Detroit Red Wings have a Swede to thank for a prime-time performance, but Mikael Samuelsson?

The demoted forward busted out of a slump with two goals, and Chris Osgood stifled the Pittsburgh Penguins’ young and talented stable of forwards with 19 saves to lift the Red Wings to a 4-0 victory in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals on Saturday night.

I don’t know if it’s the fact I am patiently waiting for tomorrow’s Coca-Cola 600 or what, but I wasn’t too impressed with the game as a whole. The Red Wings did a great job and they made the Penguins look pretty bad. Hopefully game 2 will be a bit more exciting.

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It looks like the Red Wings will be playing the Penguins for the Stanley Cup. Yeah, we didn’t see that coming did we? It was nice of the Red Wings to tempt fate by taking it to game 6 tonight.

Dominant in the regular season, superb again in the postseason, the Detroit Red Wings are headed back to the Stanley Cup finals.

With gusto, too.

Just when the Red Wings lost consecutive games and were starting to look vulnerable, they bounced back strong in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, getting first-period goals from Kris Draper, Pavel Datsyuk and Dallas Drake on their way to knocking out the Dallas Stars 4-1 on Monday night.

I can hardly wait for Saturday.

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I’ve decided I to start posting about a few other sports in addition to auto racing, which might seem odd for some of you, but you must realize, I only like two sports. NASCAR and hockey. I can’t do either one of them, but I sure like watching them.

With that said, is it me, or are more and more professional teams (not just in auto racing and hockey) looking for the “quick path” to a championship?

The NHL coaching carousel tossed another one off the ride Monday. For those keeping score at home, there are now six head coach openings in the league. And don’t be surprised if when it’s all said and done the ride will continue with nothing but a reshuffling of the deck.

The firing of Ron Wilson in San Jose isn’t a surprise considering the team he coached lost in the second round of the playoffs for three years in a row. And wouldn’t the Toronto Maple Leafs like to be able to boast that? It can be argued that Wilson was more a victim of the new formula in sports management: same voice + same results = fire coach.

The irony is, Wilson didn’t forget how to coach overnight, he in fact got better at it this season. He toned done some of his sniping at players in the press to get the message across, instead explaining exactly what was right and wrong with the team and he commanded more respect and cooperation in return.

Ron Wilson had his troubles, that’s for sure, but this past season he actually did more than he had in the past to help the team grow. I must be crazy, but I think any coach who can get you to the second round of the playoffs three years in a row is doing pretty damned good. Who knows. If San Jose wouldn;t have fired him, this could have been the year of the “big one”. It’s too bad the powers that be are too impatient to keep confidence in their own decisions.

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