Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Rematch! Pens face Wings in Stanley Cup Finals

With Darren Helm's overtime winner in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals, the Detroit Red Wings have advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals where they'll meet the team they beat in that round last year, the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Wings have a balanced attack, and there's no need to get into immense detail about their stars. However, the Penguins could have a huge advantage after some interesting developments in the nation's former automotive capital.

Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk are both hurt and have missed the last two games with with lower body injuries. Those are the best two players on the team, and if they either cannot play or will play at less than 100 percent, the Pens will need to take advantage.

Datsyuk's injury could be a broken foot. At the very least, it is badly bruised. That means that if he gets the chance, Sergei Gonchar should blast a slap shot right at him...hard, low, and at the injured foot. It's not nice or classy, but the Penguins need to inflict as much physical adversity as they can on the Wings.

Saturday, May 30 at Detroit, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
Sunday, May 31 at Detroit, TBD-Night NBC, CBC, RDS
Tuesday, June 2 at Pittsburgh, 8:00 pm VERSUS, CBC, RDS
Thursday, June 4 at Pittsburgh, 8:00 pm VERSUS, CBC, RDS
* Saturday, June 6 at Detroit, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
* Tuesday, June 9 at Pittsburgh, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
* Friday, June 12 at Detroit, 8:00 pm NBC, CBC, RDS
*if necessary

Oh yeah...



"I've had enough of this. I'm playing for the other guys next year."

Okay, Benedict. The Pens better make him squeal.

2 comments:

John said...

"Datsyuk's injury could be a broken foot. At the very least, it is badly bruised. That means that if he gets the chance, Sergei Gonchar should blast a slap shot right at him...hard, low, and at the injured foot. It's not nice or classy, but the Penguins need to inflict as much physical adversity as they can on the Wings."

lol well said, and yeah we better f!@# benedict hossa's life up

The Big K said...

They better, because the thought of Hossa lifting the Cup in front of the Penguins makes me cringe.