Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Red Wings 3 Penguins 2 - Detroit showed that experience and hard work were enough to hold off the young upstart Penguins. Goals by Brian Rafalski and Valtteri Filppula put the Red Wings up 2-0 and things looked bleak for Pittsburgh. Marc Andre Fleury, who was on top of his ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Penguins 4 Red Wings 3 - Petr Sykora told NBC's Pierre McGuire he was going to score between plays earlier in the 2nd overtime. And score he did. Sykora took a Evgeni Malkin pass and beat Chris Osgood short side over the left shoulder to send the series back to ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Penguins 3 Red Wings 2 - The high scoring Penguins were held scoreless for the first two games of these Finals. Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom were mostly responsible for bottling up Sidney Crosby. But that changed when the Pens got back to Mellon Bank Arena. Crosby scored ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Red Wings 3 Penguins 0 - Like every other team Detroit has stomped their way through in the playoffs, Pittsburgh can not figure out Chris Osgood. The hottest goalie in the game stopped another 22 shots for his third shutout this postseason, second of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Red ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
The outcome of game 1 could have been foreshadowed with the Penguins first step on the ice.
Penguins goalie Marc-André Fleury fell leading the Eastern Conference champs into their pre-game skate. With Chris Osgood stopping everything Pittsburgh shot at him and little talked about Mikael Samuelsson's two goals, the Red Wings ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Red Wings 4 Stars 1 - Detroit advances to the Stanley Cup finals with a convincing win over the Dallas Stars. First period goals by Kris Draper, Pavel Datsyuk and Dallas Drake gave the Red Wings a unsurmountable 3-0 lead. This sets up an All-American final with Pittsburgh, the ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Penguins 6 Flyers 0 - Philly ran into the buzzsaw that is "Sid and the Kids." Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal, and Pascal Dupuis all scored for the Pens, but it was elder "skateman" Ryan Malone (2 G 1A) that led the demolition of Philly this day. Marc-Andre Fleury, thought to ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Flyers 4 Penguins 2 - This is the Philly team people expected to see this series. The first period belonged to the Flyers as they relentlessly forechecked the lackadaisical Penguins. It was Philadelphia that was the benefactor of good bounces and the Pens this time making the dumb mistakes allowing ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Stars 3 Red Wings 1 - Dallas scored twice in the third period to stave off elimination. Goals by Mike Modano and Brenden Morrow snapped the 11-game win streak of Detroit. The series is headed back to Joe Louis Arena meaning Justin might be right with his prediction of Wings ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Penguins 4 Flyers 1 - Pittsburgh is close to doing something they haven't done since Jaromir Jagr was a Penguin. That is reach the NHL finals. Down their two top defensemen, the Flyers had little room for error against the Pittsburgh young guns. The Pens struck fast and furiously as ...
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