Celebrating a Stanley Cup Victory from Somewhere in the Channel Islands
June 14th, 2009 | published in New and Topical.
The California Coast, Pacific Ocean. June 12, 2009.
DETROIT — It was said that the Detroit Red Wings could not lose Game 7 of a Stanley Cup final on home ice. They did.
That Marc-Andre Fleury could not be counted on to win big games. He has.
That these Penguins were not ready to be champions. They are.
They defeated the Red Wings, 2-1, in Game 7 at Joe Louis Arena last night to earn the third Stanley Cup in franchise history.
The driving forces behind the victory were forward Max Talbot, who scored both goals, and Fleury, who turned aside 23 of 24 shots and made a lunging game-, season- and Cup-saving stop on Nicklas Lidstrom with about a second to play.
Excerpted from ‘Penguins beat Red Wings, 2-1, in Stanley Cup thriller,’ by Dave Molinari. Published June 13, 2009, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.