Saturday, May 30, 2009

IS the Stanley Cup Prepared for Flight? Or will it just Wing it?


The Stanley Cup Play-Offs start Tonight!

I wait all year long to watch the most intense championship game around.

Sadly my Toronto Maple leafs did not make it (Yet Again)

I halve to say though I am excited about this match up. As you have the more experienced Detroit Red Wings versus the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Most will say the Red Wings have the experience over the Penguins, and that with the mixture of a couple of young guys in their line up will help Detroit win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
On the other hand where I sit I believe the younger and less injury riddled Penguins look to be the ones to upset the Dominate Red Wings. I mean they do have some veteran presence and well they were in the Final last year so this is'nt so new to them this time is it?

Nicolas Lidstrom, To play or not to play?

This is a huge impact if he is not prepared physically for final round this may create a weakness on the back end. So this is a huge loss if he can’t play. Even though the Red Wings should come over this from experience, He is still the captain who may not be on the ice. Now Marion Hossa will he be ready for the Penguins who may be looking to show him about the ‘Wrong” decision he made HMMM! We’ll find out huh!
Marion Hossa of the Detroit Red Wings will half to be ready or We’ll see him disappear from this round. I’m a fan of Osgoode and feel he is gonna be the reason they win or lose though. I mean he’s a good goalie but that’s it he just good which sounds like a diss, but he’s never been considered for Team Canada has he?
In all I believe the Red Wings calm and composer mixed with the scoring tenacity of Zetterberg, Datsyuk, if He returns will be the reason’s why The Detroit Red Wings win. But will they have this against a now matured and high scoring Pittsburgh Penguins.

This will be the first time since the Eighties that the same two NHL teams will meet in the final! This is significant because the Pittsburgh Penguins now have an experience to go back and rely on when things get tough. ‘Cause they will’ It is the Stanley Cup Finals after all!
Like the Detroit red Wings the Penguins have three full lines that are threats. Here is when I mention that the two centers on the Pittsburgh Penguins are 1 and 2 respectively in the NHL Play Offs Scoring race. Not to mention they both scored over a hundred points in the NHL regular season this year. Yes they would be Evgeni Malkhin , and the NHL’s face of the league Sidney Crosby. This team has proven this year that they have the tenacity to come from a sub par season and then raise their game to be here at the Stanley Cup Final. I think adding the like of Billy Guerin and having other vets like Sergie Gonchar, and Hal Gill ‘who has really given fits to the other teams offense’ will give the experience needed to the young guns of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Can Detroit stop Malkhin and Crosby with their Defense? Maybe! But not without Lidstrom. Even if Detrouit does this they will half to look out for the Staal line which has shown it can fire pucks in the net during during the NHL Play Offs. And now here is the who I think will drive the Red Wings Crazy. It’s Marc Andre Fleury, I believe this is where he becomes recognized as one of the elite between the pipes of NHL Goaltenders.
So here’s my bold yet correct statement Pittsburgh wins the Stanley Cup in Seven!

I challenge you to prove me wrong.

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