Gonchar's goal helps Pittsburgh to home victory, cuts Stanley Cup deficit to 2-1
Sergei Gonchar scored the go-ahead goal with 9:31 left in the third period and Marc-Andre Fleury made 27 saves, lifting the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings in Game 3 of the...
View ArticleJohn Buccigross evaluates Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins after...
Are the Wings and Penguins living up to their billing in the Cup finals? Bucci breaks it down, player by player.
View ArticleLeBrun: Save the Game 4 tape ... you don't often rattle the Red Wings
In Thursday's Game 4, the Red Wings looked like a frazzled, tired group. But if one club can overcome such a loss, it's the defending Cup champs.
View ArticleCrosby gets on finals board as dominant 2nd helps Pens knot series
Sidney Crosby scored his first goal in four games in the Stanley Cup finals to put Pittsburgh ahead midway through the second period, helping the Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-2 to even the...
View ArticleRed Wings punish Fleury, Penguins to take 3-2 lead in finals
Pavel Datsyuk made an instant impact for the Detroit Red Wings in a 5-0 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, giving them a 3-2 lead in the Stanley Cup finals.
View ArticleBurnside: Oh, those sports cliches ... what would we do without them
We're taking it one game at a time. There's no "I" in team. An elimination game brings out the cliches, and we're breaking out our own translations of the mundane and predictable.
View ArticleLeBrun: There's drafting and developing, but Babcock knows how to lead his team
We know Detroit has excelled at drafting, developing and assembling championship rosters. But one can't overlook coach Mike Babcock and the job he has done behind the bench.
View ArticleDetroit Red Wings happy to head home, but miss chance to close out Stanley...
The Wings are happy to have the chance to win the Cup on home ice, but, fact is, they failed to close out the series and have fallen into a winner-take-all situation that leaves no room for error.
View ArticleFleury outdoes Osgood as Pens survive furious finish to push Cup finals to 7
Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy scored, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 25 saves as the Pittsburgh Penguins forced Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals by beating the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on...
View ArticleWhy these Cup finals between Pittsburgh Penguins, Detroit Red Wings have been...
A playoff series will often follow some sort of pattern, but not these Cup finals. It has made the series both compelling and maddeningly difficult to predict. Here's a review.
View ArticleLeBrun: Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals new territory for Detroit Red Wings
The Wings have the experience, they are still the defending champs, they are still the NHL's modern-day dynasty, but they have no more Game 7 experience in the Cup finals than the Pens.
View ArticleStanley Cup finals: Sidney Crosby of Pittsburgh Penguins denies handshake...
The Red Wings can accept that Pittsburgh is the Stanley Cup champion. Getting snubbed by Sidney Crosby is another matter.
View ArticleNHL - 2014 Stanley Cup finals: Top 10 Stanley Cup finals in the last 20 years
The Kings-Rangers series is such a doozy that it prompted us to rank the top 10 series from the past 20 years. ESPN The Magazine's Craig Custance takes it on.
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