Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Stanley Cup Finals, Game 4- Detroit Red Wings @ Penguins

The Pittsburgh Penguins face another practical must-win situation on Thursday night as the Detroit Red Wings will be looking to take a 3-1 series lead with a win in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Of course, the Penguins could even the series with a victory of their own, in turn forcing a best of three set with two games in Detroit to decide the recipient of Lord Stanley's Cup.

Forwards Pavel Datsyuk and Kris Draper could both potentially be back in the lineup for Detroit. Datsyuk will have a much more noticeable impact than Draper, even though it's not likely to be on the score sheet. Before being sidelined during the Western Conference Finals, Datsyuk had been very quiet offensively. He'll be charged with the daunting task of containing Evgeni Malkin, whose 33 playoff points are more any other player since Joe Sakic in 1996.

Marc-Andre Fleury will need to more or less replicate his performance in Game 3. Chris Osgood has to be better on the other side, or this thing will go back to Mo-Town all evened up.

Penguins-
Kunitz-Crosby-Guerin
Fedotenko-Malkin-Talbot
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Dupuis-Adams-Satan

Orpik-Gonchar
Eaton-Letang
Gill-Scuderi

Fleury

Red Wings-
Franzen-Zetterberg-Cleary
Filppula-Datsyuk-Hossa
Hudler-Helm-Samuelsson
Abdelkader-Draper-Maltby

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Ericsson-Lebda

Osgood

GO PENS!

2 comments:

John said...

Not a fan of a Datsyuk return. Hopefully he's still banged up and his performance shows it.

Toad268 said...

That's where we are. The game is on the line, what are we going to do? Do we kick the field goal to tie or go for the touchdown? I know, speaking football terms gets you confused in a Penguin post, but for some of you, that's what you need to get in the spirit of things. Tonight is a huge game that could change the face of the Penguins for years to come. Instead of the almost Pens, we would be the can do Pens. In other words, it is time for every fan in Steeler Nation to support the Pens tonight. It is time to come together and show what a city Pittsburgh is.

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