Winged Wheel Runs Over Self-Combusting Penguins

The Detroit Red Wings pummeled the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-0 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals Detroit demonstrated that when it controls the puck in the offensive zone Pittsburgh has no chance. The Penguins shot themselves in the proverbial flipper again and again with idiotic penalties that aided to the Detroit rout. Pavel Datsyuk’s [...]

Penguins Hold Serve In Must Win Game

We still don’t know anything about the Stanley Cup Finals. That statement is true if you believe that old theory “We don’t know anything about the series until a team loses at home.”
The Pittsburgh Penguin’s held serve with 4-2 victory at Mellon Arena to make the series 2-1 in favor of the Detroit Red Wings.
The [...]

Capitalizing On Chances Brings Wings Closer To Cup

Just a city boy, born and raised in Mus-ke-gon Michigan…
Going into the Stanley Cup Finals if you were asked to pick who would lead in goals scored after two games you would have gone through a couple dozen names before you found the correct answer.
Surely you would have guessed Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Henrik Zetterberg, [...]

Wings-Penguins Provide Stanley Cup Déjà Vu

Here we are again. After 82 games and another grueling two months of intense playoff hockey, after shedding blood, sweat and, well, more blood (there’s no crying in hockey) the same two teams are left standing. Detroit vs. Pittsburgh. Same stick, different day. While it may not be the most exciting matchup for a hockey [...]

How Many Wings Does It Take To Lift A Cup?

In a city so rich in tradition it’s labeled Hockeytown, on a team dripping with All-Stars, big names and enough championship rings to fill several sets of gloves, a 22-year-old with 23 regular season games played and zero regular season goals scored motored a veteran group to victory.

Darren Helm provided an example of why persistence [...]