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The Journey Ends
by Paul on 06/13/09 at 08:44 AM ET
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from Scott Burnside of ESPN,
There he was, Mario Lemieux, former captain and now owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins, searching the crowd on the Joe Louis Arena ice surface for his current captain, Sidney Crosby. Finding Crosby, Lemieux gently handed the Stanley Cup back to him and, in doing so, closed the circle on the Penguins’ remarkable championship run.
For a team that on this night lost Crosby to a knee injury early in the second period and still gutted out a thrilling 2-1 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champions from Detroit, its first championship since 1992 is as much a celebration of an improbable journey as it was the celebration of a game.
An improbable journey for a franchise that looked dead and gone just a few years ago.
An improbable journey for a team that fired its coach and looked a long shot just to make the playoffs in mid-February.
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