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Who do you think is going to win the Stanley Cup? Course, I have to ride with my Pens, they're playing out of their mind.. but the veterans on Detroit's roster definitely scare me..
Although, I will say this will be a FUN series to watch. These teams haven't met during the regular season this year, so anything can happen. The Pens are young and quick, although will their inexperience at this point be too overwhelming?
I don't think so. They're in the finals now.. No time to be playing the "inexperienced" card. Sure they haven't faced much adversity, but lets remember.. they were being blown at against the Rangers early in their series.. it was like 3-0 and they came back to win it.. I believe in this team. Scary how their best two players are 20 and 21 and the goalie is young as well.
This was my dream matchup from the start (probably one of Bettman's as well), and I can't wait for Saturday.
If I had to pick a winner, I'd go with Detroit, simply because you can guarantee nothing at all will rattle them. That's not just due to their SCF experience either; their puck-controlling style of play is just so smooth and consistent, and their blue-line is near-impossible to penetrate.
That said, what's interesting about the Pens is that they don't really need to control the play. They score so much off the rush that if each of their stars gets a few opportunities per game, I can easily see them winning the series.
This is going to be one of the tightest finals in years. 2 Amazing teams going at it for the cup.
My favorite american team since I was a kid was the Penguins so I hope they win it.
Allot of teams should take notice of what Pittsburgh done within there organization. It was only three years ago were they dumped half the team and started witb fresh new young talent and they already made the finals...
Allot of teams should take notice of what Pittsburgh done within there organization. It was only three years ago were they dumped half the team and started witb fresh new young talent and they already made the finals...
Uh, not to discount GM Ray Shero (who I quite like), but the Pens' resurgence is due almost exclusively to three things, none of which you can conceivably "strive for" without losing your hockey team (which Pittsburgh almost did):
1.) They were so bad for so long, and thus drafted in the top-four every year for half a decade.
2.) One of their two first-overall draft picks (which they won in a league-wide draft lottery) happened to fall the same year Sidney Crosby entered the league.
3.) One of their two second-overall draft picks happened to fall the same year both Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin entered the league.
I absolutely love watching the Penguins play, but some part of me can't help but feel their rise to the top was incredibly cheap (and couldn't be more opposed to how Detroit has done it, year after year).
Their rise to power has certainly had some luck along the way, but they have made a couple great trades such as this year's for Hossa who has played very well for them.. and I don't like the way the Red Wings were always among the top teams before the cap because of how much money they were spending.. It was just as bad as baseball.
I don't like the way the Red Wings were always among the top teams before the cap because of how much money they were spending.. It was just as bad as baseball.
The Red Wings? As bad as baseball? Are you crazy?
Before the cap, yeah, there were some payroll discrapancies, and certain teams attempted to "buy" playoff-calibre squads (see: the Rangers, who could not have failed more miserably), but to include the Red Wings among those teams is assinine. If you look at the make-up of their Cup-winning teams in the late 90s and early 00s, those key players were almost all essentially home-grown, and most were late-round draft picks: Steve Yzerman, Sergei Fedorov, Nicklas Lidstrom, Slava Kozlov, Vlad Konstantinov, Kris Draper, Kirk Maltby, Darren McCarty, Martin Lapointe. Even Brendan Shanahan, who was obviously a superstar and not home-grown, required the Wings to trade away one of their biggest assets in Keith Primeau.
Now, looking up and down their roster, it's the same thing. I'm personally in awe of their scouting staff, the guys who uncovered late-round gems like Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Holmstrom, Franzen, Hudler, etc.
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