Hockeyhead

How can Detroit win the Stanley Cup if they can’t even win on the road?  Pittsburgh has got one more shot at the unenviable task of putting up a win in the others team’s barn.  I can’t think of a more fitting end to the 2009 Stanley Cup Final than a road victory by the younger more exciting, Hossa-free Pens.  Pittsburgh’s secondary guys came up big on offense and Marc-Andre Fleury made a couple of the biggest saves of the playoffs to fend of Detroit 2-1 and force a seventh game.

For the first time in this year’s Final I took the opportunity to flip between CBC’s Canadian coverage and NBC’s presentation of the game.  It’s funny when you can hear the excitement in Jim Hughson’s voice when Crosby and Malkin take to the ice together for an early first period man advantage, then with a flip to NBC you can be notified by some dickhead that “this power-play is brought to you by Bud Light”.  NBC’s coverage was several seconds behind the CBC feed, probably in case a young lady in the crowd got excited and decided to flash a titty.

Other than the incessant amplified glass-pounding by some goddamn animal last night, we were treated to the most entertaining game of the series.  Everything changes when the Cup is in the arena.  I poke a lot of fun at the Red Wings here, but in real-life it’s hard not to respect what that franchise has accomplished over the last decade and a half.  It’s time to pass the torch you fuckers.

(bumps to Stoeten for digging up the video)