NHL Stanley Cup Final: Penguins Beat Red Wings 4-3

The Penguins entered Friday's finals game full of confidence. Even with the records against them, despite the fact that only one team in the history of the NHL had won a Game 7 on the road in the Stanley Cup Final, These Pittsburgh kids came out with big hearts.

The Penguins wins 2-1 a heart breaking Game 7 against the defending champion Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena with the weight of history conspiring against them.

"We heard all these stupid stats about how a team hadn't done 0-2 since 1971 or something and all these other Game 7 stats," defenseman Brooks Orpik told NHL.com "But I thought we just did a good job of blocking all that out and staying confident the whole series." That confidence was the best thing the Penguins have.



After a scoreless and somewhat tame first period, Pittsburgh took the lead early in the second on the first of Max Talbot's two goals. Talbot was in perfect position to score over the turnover by Detroit defenseman Brad Stuart. Once he had the puck on his stick, he just ladled it between the leg pads of Detroit goalie Chris Osgood at 1:13. Almost nine minutes later, Talbot scored again. This time, he pounced on chip pass by teammate Chris Kunitz to lead a 2-on-1 against Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall. Talbot avoid the pass and fired a wrister from about 15 feet that zipped over Osgood's glove and nestled into the far corner.

With Crosby on the shelf after injuring his knee in a collision with Johan Franzen in the second, centers Evgeni Malkin, who was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner, and Jordan Staal played huge minutes.

Red Wings Wins Game 5 over Pittsburgh

Defending champion Detroit Red Wings wins over the Pittsburgh team in Saturday night's Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final at Joe Louis Arena. authoring a 5-0 victory that puts the Red Wings on the precipice of their 12th Stanley Cup. Detroit has won 11 of 12 home games at "The Joe" this postseason.

The Cup champions showed their class, especially during the first 15 minutes of the second period when Detroit turned a nail-biting 1-0 lead into a statement game. The final three goals of the outburst all came on the power play, which had been dormant throughout the first four games of the series.
Detroit goalie Chris Osgood, who had allowed seven goals in the past two games, turned in a 22-save shutout.
But it was Zetterberg, the player most often verbally targeted by a Pittsburgh team that was clearly feeling its oats after putting the defending champions on the ropes after the two wins at Mellon Arena, who stole the show. He assisted on the first power-play goal and scored the game's final goal, also on the power play.

It should be noted that the Red Wings weren't ready right away Saturday night.

Pittsburgh dominated the first few minutes of the game, looking like the team that used its speed and youth to put up three goals in a six-minute span of Game 4 to turn a 2-1 Detroit lead into a 4-2 come-from-behind victory that made the Wings look a tad vulnerable.

1st Henrik Zetterberg
Left Wing - DET
GOALS: 1 | PTS: 2
ASST: 1 | SOG: 6
+/-: 1

2nd Pavel Datsyuk
Center - DETGOALS: 0 | PTS: 2
ASST: 2 | SOG: 2
+/-: 2

3rd Chris Osgood
Goalie - DET
SAVE PCTG: 1.000

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NHL Stanley Cup Final: Penguins Beat Red Wings 4-2, Trail 2-1

Sergei Gonchar scored a tie-breaking goal in the third period to help the Pittsburgh Penguins win the third game of the National Hockey League Stanley Cup Final.

The Detroit Red Wings lead the best-of-seven series 2-1 after losing 4-2 at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh last night.

Maxime Talbot opened the scoring for the Penguins after 4:48 of the first period. Henrik Zetterberg tied it less than two minutes later and Johan Franzen put the Red Wings ahead in the 12th minute. Detroit held the lead for less than five minutes before Kris Letang made it 2-2.

After a scoreless second period, Gonchar put the Penguins ahead on a power play halfway through the final period and Talbot scored into an empty net with 57 seconds to play.

Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 27 shots for the Penguins, while Chris Osgood had 17 saves for the Red Wings.