Chris Osgood

So close.  Losing in game seven of the Stanley Cup Final to the Pittsburgh Penguins on your home ice may have been heartbreaking for the Detroit Red Wings, but they have built up a nucleus that promises to contend for the championship for the foreseeable future.  Given that the Red Wings’ amazing 112-point season in [...]

Last night I got to witness history in the making.  The Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 to lay claim as the 2009 NHL’s Stanley Cup champions.  It was the first time since the 1971 Montreal Canadiens, that an opposing team won a Stanley Cup game 7 on the road.  Another similarity to [...]

Well today is the last day of hockey.  At 8pm EST the puck will drop in Hockeytown USA.  Sixty minutes is all that separates the Detroit Red Wings from repeating as Stanley Cup champions or will it be the young Pittsburgh Penguins who finally break through and win their first Stanley Cup.  One aspect that [...]

Wow, what a game.  Totally one sided but still a great game.  Detroit, back at full strength came out of the locker room and took it to the Pittsburgh Penguins.  I mean they totally dominated them.  Detroit put on an exhibition as they shutout the Pens 5-0 to take a 3-2 lead in the Stanley [...]

Last night the Pittsburgh Penguins finally broke out of their offensive slump as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2.  Maxime Talbot opened the game scoring 4 minutes and 48 seconds in the 1st period and closed the game’s scoring with an empty netter with less than a minute to go in the 3rd.  In [...]

So here we are, in the early morning when most are sleeping and hopefully having good dreams, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been tossing and turning.  Pens superstar forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin probably have not even slept, they’re too busy figuring out a way to put the puck in the net more than just [...]

Playing in their second straight game in as many days, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins by a score of 3-1 to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup final.  For the second straight year, the young Pittsburgh Penguins  descended on  Joe Louis Arena to kick off the Stanley Cup finals and [...]

The Stanley Cup opened with a thud last night for the Pittsburgh Penguins.  The thud they heard was the sound of themselves falling on their collective asses.  Detroit came out using their depth and experience to control the Penguins from start to finish.  When the clock hit 0:00 the final score was 3-1 in favor [...]

So here we are again a year later and the same teams have found their way back to the Stanley Cup Finals.  The Eastern Conference champion Pittsburgh Penguins will take on the Western Conference champion Detroit Red Wings once again to see who deserves the honor of hoisting the Stanley Cup above their heads and [...]

The Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 in dramatic fashion needing overtime to do it.  This was the third overtime game of the series.  Chicago did all it could and threw everything they had at the Wings, even an outstanding performance by backup goalie Cristobal Huet but in the end it just wasn’t [...]