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Who Will Step Into The Limelight?
by Paul on 05/29/09 at 12:04 PM ET
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from Darren Eliot of Sports Illustrated,
Finally, if you’re looking for a couple of players out of the limelight who will thrust themselves into the glare with a special contribution, consider Valtteri Filppula of the Red Wings and Chris Kunitz of the Penguins. Both play significant minutes and during key situations. They’ve had good moments already during this playoff run, but with a single goal each, they are poised to really break out and make a difference. If either finds the net regularly with the Stanley Cup at stake, they will usurp the accolades reserved for the stars.
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The revisionist history being put on display by the media regarding last year’s finals is insane.
I have no hope for accuracy when Emrick says Maltby is a three-time Stanley Cup winner and in an article on game 5 of the Detroit-Chicago series the writer said that Helm’s game-winner went in off his skate.
Posted by Aphaea from Pennsylvania on 05/29/09 at 01:07 PM ET
It’s sad, Mandingo. Astute observations all around. Of course, the MSM and the NHL front office are just now getting their feeble minds wrapped around the word “experience” this year. So I add, “What about those same guys (Franzen, Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Cleary, et al.) who are also one-year more experienced?” Does that mean just because they’ve already won one makes them less hungry and less desirous of winning it again?”
F*ck that. Now more than ever, I want this year’s Cup in Detroit again.
Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 05/29/09 at 01:15 PM ET
Now more than ever, I want this year’s Cup in Detroit again.
Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 05/29/09 at 02:15 PM ET
I have never wanted the Wings to win the Cup more than this year. Just so we can stop the MSM from annointing the Pens as a “burgeoning dynasty”. So we can put to rest the notion Osgood isn’t a great goalie. So we can overcome all the haters, the forced scheduling of back to back games and all the other bullsh*t that keeps coming our way. If the Wings win #12 in a few weeks it will be interesting to hear the whining and complaints. Hopefully, at least, they’ll be new ones.
Posted by calquake on 05/29/09 at 02:02 PM ET
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Three things drive me f*cking crazy about this paragraph and about this argument in general, which nearly every single member of the NHL media seems to blindly regurgitate in every article about this series.
1) Zetterberg, Franzen, Filppula, Cleary and a host of other Red Wings had no finals experience whatsoever either. How, exactly, is that different from Crosby, Malkin, and other Pens having no finals experience? Simply by virtue of the fact that those other players play for the Red Wings? That doesn’t make any sense.
2) The Pens didn’t “stand around and stare” the first two games of the finals last year, they just got completely dominated defensively. Why does the reason a team loses a game always have to be understood by the media as being a product of them not playing well?
3) The Pens “forced” a sixth game by being utterly, completely dominated in a Game 5 they had no business even being in. The series last year wasn’t nearly as close as people seem to now believe.
The revisionist history being put on display by the media regarding last year’s finals is insane.
Posted by Mandingo from The Garage on 05/29/09 at 12:25 PM ET