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by Paul on 06/05/09 at 08:02 AM ET
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from Craig Custance of the Sporting News,
It was something he has seldom seen from Detroit Red Wings players, and Brooks Orpik is getting to know them pretty well. On their way to a series squaring 4-2 win, the Penguins took a one-goal lead when Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the Stanley Cup finals.
Fellow defenseman Mark Eaton nudged Orpik and told him to check out Detroit’s bench after Crosby’s goal.
The players were slumped over. Exhausted. Nothing close to the dominant, immovable force the Penguins saw last year….
Even worse, Orpik said he noticed Red Wings players getting on each other.
“Which you never see out of those guys,” he said. “It’s something you don’t expect from them or see too often. I guess, a good sign for us.”
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That’s pretty much what I was saying last night.
I started to get a bad feeling about all of this Wednesday, when Billy Jaffee on NHL Live talked about a phone call he had with a Red Wing whom he refused to name. He said that Red Wing told him the series should be tied, not 2-0 Detroit.
That’s not the mindset of the team we know.
They’re exhausted. They’re sniping at each other. They’ve hit a wall, and as professional athletes it angers them that they can’t find another gear.
The truth is they’ve been in that top gear for a month now. How else to explain a team amking it all the way to the SCF in an era when not only do teams not repeat as Champs, they either do not make the playoffs or are bounced out in the first round?
Nothing to be ashamed of. The mental mistakes (giveaway after giveaway) are a result of the exhaustion.
Maybe this team can shock us all again. But the human factor is playing a role.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 06/05/09 at 08:26 AM ET