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The winner gets to skate the world's most recognizable trophy aroound the ice, while the losers can only watch - and weep!
Posted on 06/10/2009 6:05:46 PM PDT by airborne
Game 7 of the Final is hockey's ultimate contest
For a hockey fan, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final is like waiting for Christmas: It seems like the big day takes forever to get there, but when it does, it's well worth the wait.
Of course, Christmas comes just once a year. A Final series that goes the maximum seven games comes along infrequently. Since the NHL expanded from the Original Six teams in 1967, the championship round has gone the distance just eight times, including this year's Final between Detroit and Pittsburgh. If the Stanley Cup Final is really the NHL's two best teams facing off for the championship, it seems logical that there would be more than eight seven-gamers in a span of 42 years — after all, baseball's World Series has gone the distance 14 times in the same span (though not since 2002).
But baseball has just eight teams in the postseason and only two rounds of playoffs before the World Series, so there's a much smaller likelihood of upsets in the early going. In contrast, with three rounds and potentially 21 games to play just to get to the Final, at least one of the teams is often worn out from the journey.
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The winner gets to skate the world's most recognizable trophy aroound the ice, while the losers can only watch - and weep!
STANLEY CUP FINALS! GAME 7 PING!!!
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS WEBSITE
http://penguins.nhl.com/index.html
DETROIT RED WINGS WEBSITE
http://redwings.nhl.com/index.html
Are you serious? I stopped paying attention after Game 2 what happened?
Reading the thread and all the links I’ve provided will get you up to speed.
To be brief, both teams have won their games at home.
the teams won all their home games, it wasn’t that big of a shock that Pitt came back, except to all the wirters.
I’m a Flyers fan, but go Pens!
Go Eastern Conference Champs
Detroit is HockeyTown. Get used to it. Go Wings!!!
Funny, I haven’t seen or heard from Barry Melrose since he wrote the Pens off prior to game 6.
The whole Hockeytown arrogance is exactly why I’m cheering for the Pens. The Wings act too much like the Dallas Cowboys, who claim to be America’s team.
The same reason I am for anyone who is playing the Yankees. But, please don’t confuse confidence for arrogance.
It sounds like arrogance to me, although I’m betting the Wing’s players don’t think that way.
May the best team win.
Sursum Corda, a Habs fan, now residing in Colorado
To be honest this game should be an excellent match and I’m not as confident as I was when it started. The only thing they have going for them is home ice. They are hard to beat playing in the D.
Can Crosby, Maltin, and Marc-Andre Fleury keep the reins on Zetterberg, Datsyuk and Osgood? This may be the key to the game.
Detroit gets the last change, and I think that’s been the difference.
worst commercial ever: Shows the day-in-the-life of the handler of the cup. A tad bit too cheezy for my liking.
Okay - buried in the article it is this Friday, June 12th in Detroit, at 8pm. That must mean Central Time?
...you don’t know the wings very well, do you?
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