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GAME DAY: SCP '09, FRIDAY JUNE 12, STANLEY CUP FINAL--PITTSBURGH AT DETROIT, 800 PM ET

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WHO WINS GAME SEVEN AND THE STANLEY CUP?

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wprager


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Cap'n Clutch wrote:Well those that voted on the CBS widget overwhelmingly pick Pittsburgh by a 15 to 3 margin thus far.

What's the CBS widget and how is it relevant? Does it attract an elite type of clicker?

davetherave


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Tonight's game as seen from the heart of Red Wing Nation:

WHO NEEDS SUSPENSE?
Graham Couch, Mlive.com/The Kalamazoo Gazette, June 12, 2009

DETROIT -- It's a possibility hard to picture: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman gushing as he hands the Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby on the ice at The Joe ... (pause for collective Hockeytown cringe) ... in front of the Red Wings and their fans.

Or maybe, for the Red Wings faithful, the thought is just more sickening than it is unimaginable.

Not the pregame musing you were hoping for hours before Game 7 of the Cup finals?

My apologies. The Bettman-to-Crosby handoff shouldn't happen, and probably won't.

But the Red Wings would be smart to take the suspense out of it.

In the past couple days, both sides have talked aboot their childhood dreams on frozen Canadian ponds -- scoring the game winner in Game 7 of the Cup finals.AP Photo The idea of Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins hoisting the Stanley Cup at Joe Louis Arena makes Red Wings fans sick.

It's a hair-raising fantasy, gives you that tingly feeling.

Memo to the Red Wings: Amend it to note you'd prefer the decisive goal be scored in the first period.

Trying to live out make-believe drama from your childhood can get you beat.

Score first, score again, and then score again. You never know when one of those Joe Louis Arena bounces won't be so friendly.

In 2003, when Mike Babc0ck's Anaheim Ducks lost Game 7 of the Cup finals, he said his team was very good until New Jersey scored first.

Then, as the Red Wings coach put it, the Ducks "were paralyzed."

"We started worrying about what wasn't going to happen instead of just playing the game," Babc0ck said. "Sometimes, I think that's what happens at this point, is the prize gets in the way of just the execution and the details of the game."

The Red Wings are in a better spot than Anaheim was in '03. They're home, and most of the players have won Cups, even if not this dramatically.

The nightmare scenario for Detroit is more likely this: Tie game going into the third period, with the Penguins' young stars and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury suddenly thinking they can win this thing on hostile ice.

Doesn't have to be 5-0 entering the third; 3-1 would do just fine.

It's not that the Red Wings wouldn't have the advantage in a tie game in the third period. At that point, the home crowd makes a difference, along with the fact that when dialed in, the Red Wings have owned the ice.

In the final period of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, focus and fatigue aren't likely to be a problem.

But there is no way of knowing how the teams will react to that situation, including Detroit's veterans, with all their Cups and poise.

In Game 4, Detroit looked rattled and frustrated by the idea of the series being tied.

So what happens to them in Game 7, a few minutes from winning or losing a Stanley Cup, if Pittsburgh is putting up a fight?

No one knows.

"Never have I been in a situation like this in a Game 7 where so much is on the line," the Red Wings' Kris Draper said.

This from a 38-year-old who has been with the Red Wings through it all -- from losing to New Jersey in 1995 to tonight.

If the chunks being pulled from a co-worker's playoff beard say anything, Red Wings Nation is nervous.

shabbs


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wprager wrote:
Cap'n Clutch wrote:Well those that voted on the CBS widget overwhelmingly pick Pittsburgh by a 15 to 3 margin thus far.

What's the CBS widget and how is it relevant? Does it attract an elite type of clicker?
Down the side of the forum - one of the ads.

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SensFan71 wrote:
shabbs wrote:And 71... he always scores...

GAME DAY: SCP '09, FRIDAY JUNE 12, STANLEY CUP FINAL--PITTSBURGH AT DETROIT, 800 PM ET - Page 4 Malkin

damn that guy lol, hey just seeing that made me think of the Tampa Bay Devil Ray highlights last night, anyone see that young couple making out in front of the 3 nuns? I think they are going to hell for that one lol.

I think I see a tongue ring... is Dr. Phil in the house? Dr Phil Latio?

caissie_1

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Here we goooo...... It's game time...

wprager

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caissie_1 wrote:Here we goooo...... It's game time...

Just you and me, kid. Pens win and you get the bracket pool title; Wings win and it's mine.

Edit: Ah crap, I was looking at some old numbers. Yours was the DET6. PIT7 would have Cap'n Clutch snatching the title away from me. My bad.

caissie_1

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Yeh I was just about to say im out.... I was close.... It's down between you and Clutch!

Hockeyhero22000

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mohammad ali is in the stands tonight supporting the wings

wprager

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Wouldn't you know it, game seven of the SCG and here I am, relegated to the PC.

wprager

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Now, where's that CBC live link ...

Hockeyhero22000

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load of pressure by the wings then a quick chance for the pens with eriksson making a huge block on staal

wprager

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Nice block by Ericsson.

wprager

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Ali and Louis -- the two greatest.

wprager

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Just before Stuart slashed Malkin's stick in two, Malkin put his stick into Stuart's middle.

caissie_1

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Retaliation is often the one that get's caught!!!

Hockeyhero22000

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the pens can get away with murder and have been for some time

Hockeyhero22000

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and when you snap a stick in half it hard to hide that kind of evidence

wprager

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Gonchar and Crosby were out there the full two minutes.

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