Detroit Red Wings Bird-Slapped the Penguins
Sunday, June 07, 2009 Posted by Michael
On Saturday night the Detroit Red Wings came out and bird-slapped the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals, winning the game 5-0.
The Penguins carried the play for the first 5-10 minutes, continuing what they had done by winning the previous two games in Pittsburgh and tying up the series at 2 games a piece.
However, MVP finalist Pavel Datsyuk was back in the lineup for the first time in 7 games, and set up the wings first goal with a pass to Dan Cleary. After that, the Wings took control and dominated the remainder of the game, scoring power play goals, killing off penalties, keeping Crosby & Malkin off the score sheet and shutting out the Penguins.
Pittsburgh lost their composure and took a lot of dumb penalties, an elbow here, and a slash there, but Detroit just continued to play their game even with the Penguins trying to goon things up.
I expected Datsyuk to be in the lineup, and for Detroit to play a good game, but I wasn’t expecting a 5-0 shutout. Tuesday will be a very tough game in Pittsburgh, but Detroit now has two chances to win just one more game to reach another Stanley Cup Championship.
Go Wings!
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