Hockeyhead

I’m sorry, I just can’t get behind Detroit.  It’s no so much the players they have now or had on any of their other Cup winning teams, and I love Chris Osgood just because he wears the old-school helmet.  It’s these flashbacks to my youngest years as a hockey fan that I just can’t shake from my consciousness.  These images shall live with me forever:

We’re not going to get into it too much, Bob Probert and Joey Kocur scared the living be-Jesus out of me, that card isn’t worth shit, and I’m not even going to get into Gerard Gallant and John Chabot.  The Wings sucked royal fucking dick when I was kid, but Steve Yzerman was awesome.   Now, they just remind me of the Red Army, I can’t cheer for them.

The Penguins on the other hand get me giddy like a five-year old Oilers’ fan in 1985.  Sidney Crosby and Evegeni Malkin trading shifts and scoring chances provides the best in adult male entertainment this side of titties.  It was a noticeably different game with a much more wide open pace when Crosby was strategically shifted sans-Zetterberg.  The Kid only registered a single assist, but he controlled the game much more than we had seen in Detroit.  Home boards ice advantage indeed.

Maxime Talbot has slotted surprisingly well on the wing beside Malkin.  Malkin, who technically should have been suspended, notched three-assists including one on Talbot’s goal in the first period and on Gonchar’s game-winner.  Clutch.  Brooks Orpik and Matt Cooke laid some serious body on the Wings tonight, the physical play of the Penguins may have been the difference.  A similar solid all-around performance from the Pens in Game 4 could make this a new series, I’m buying in.

Pittsburgh eclipsed Detroit’s highwater mark of three goals with their 4-2 victory.  Give me a Penguins win on Thursday, the wheels will fall off the Wings in Motor City.

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