Red Wings only one game away.

The Red Wings have played 102 games so far this year, with the same goal. It is on the left side of this page.

Some players only hoist it once, some play twenty years and never even get close.

But the Red Wings are close and some of their players are one victory away from their fourth Stanley Cup.


The Red Wings won Saturday night, in a 2-1 ulcer-inducing thriller.

Marian Hossa opened up the scoring with 17 minutes left in the first, and that would be that for Pittsburgh's scoring on the night.

Lidstrom knotted the game at 1-1 soon afterwords and the game went scoreless until around the midway point of the third period where Jiri Hudler netted a backhand past MA Fleury.



Two big observations on Pitt:

1) The Sidney Crosby love is getting out of hand. His 2 goal preformance in game 3 was called by the media "one of the best games in recent Stanley Cup History." Oh please. Guess they overlooked the great preformances by Johan Franzen, Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Chris Osgood, and Mikael Samuelson again.
2) Evengi Malkin is putting in one of the most disappointing Stanley Cup Finals preformances ever. He's the real star of the Penguins and has yet to do anything this series.

Conn Smything.

When you get this close to winning, you can't help but start the debate over who should win the Conn Smythe Trophy.

Its really down to two players:

A) Henrik Zetterberg: 23 points, 12 goals, +16 +/-.
Henrik has been amazing in the playoffs. He was instrumental in killing off the Penguins' late 5 on 3 advantage. He is an offensive weapon that is also a penalty killing specialist.

B) Chris Osgood: 13-3 record, 1.45 GAA, .963 save %.
Since coming in for Hasek in the Nasvhille Series, Osgood has led the charge for the Red Wings. He has been especially good in the Finals, with two shutouts and huge saves in the Wings' 2-1 win in game 4.

Game 5 is on Monday on NBC @ The Joe Louis Arena.

Be there.