Amazingly, the Stanley Cup will not be in the house tonight - and for that, we (except ang6666 who sold her soul to the Winged Wheel) are grateful.
Keys for a Pittsburgh win? In no particular order = the Penguins need to continue to exploit Detroit's weaknesses with special teams. Marc-Andre Fleury needs to continue to play like Chris Osgood played in the first two games. Marian Hossa needs to be reminded of the bad karma, because I guarantee you the thought has crossed his mind since Game 4 ended. Pittsburgh needs to win one away from home, because if the home team keeps winning, it's Wings in 7.
Game 6 will, of course, be an elimination game, and the Stanley Cup WILL be in the Mellon Arena on Tuesday. The team that faces elimination will be decided tonight. GO PENS.
POINTS DURING THE FIRST FOUR GAMES OF THE FINALS
Detroit
- Justin Abdelkader = 2 goals, 0 assists
- Dan Cleary = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Jonathan Ericsson = 1 goal, 0 assists
- Valtteri Filppula = 1 goal, 0 assists
- Johan Franzen = 2 goals, 1 assist
- Darren Helm = 1 goal, 1 assist
- Tomas Holmstrom = 0 goals, 2 assists
- Marian Hossa = 0 goals, 1 assist
- Jiri Hudler = 0 goals, 1 assist
- Niklas Kronwall = 0 goals, 1 assist
- Brett Lebda = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Ville Leino = 0 goals, 2 assists
- Nicklas Lidstrom = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Kirk Maltby = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Brian Rafalski = 0 goals, 2 assists
- Mikael Samuelsson = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Brad Stuart = 2 goals, 0 assists
- Henrik Zetterberg = 1 goal, 3 assists
Pittsburgh
- Craig Adams = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Philippe Boucher = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Matt Cooke = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Sidney Crosby = 1 goal, 2 assists
- Mark Eaton = 0 goals, 1 assist
- Ruslan Fedotenko = 1 goal, 1 assist
- Hal Gill = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Sergei Gonchar = 1 goal, 1 assist
- Bill Guerin = 0 goals, 1 assist
- Tyler Kennedy = 1 goal, 0 assists
- Chris Kunitz = 0 goals, 1 assist
- Kris Letang = 1 goal, 2 assists
- Evgeni Malkin = 2 goals, 5 assists
- Brooks Orpik = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Miroslav Satan = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Rob Scuderi = 0 goals, 0 assists
- Jordan Staal = 1 goal, 1 assist
- Max Talbot = 2 goals, 1 assist
POINTS LEADERS
- Evgeni Malkin, 7 points
- Henrik Zetterberg, 4 points
- Johan Franzen, 3 points
- Sidney Crosby, 3 points
- Kris Letang, 3 points
- Max Talbot, 3 points
Poll
Which team will face elimination in Game 6? (i.e. - the opposite of who wins tonight)
Detroit (10 votes)
Pittsburgh (11 votes)
21 total votes


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