Well I got the Penguins' score right.
Detroit shut out at home in game 7, with Crosby a non-factor?
Talbot and Staal were huge. Gill again was instrumental in handling Franzen and Holmstrom.
OTOH, Stuart, after playing well over his head for almost the entire playoffs, was uniformly horrible all game. Besides the gaffes that showed up on the scoresheet, he turned the puck over repeatedly. Rafalski was also a big disappointment. As a result, Babcock wore out Lidstrom and Kronwall. Helm was good, but also looked a little worn out.
OTOH, Zetterberg was a horse, esp on one series with the Red Wings trapped in their own zone and completely out of gas. With Pitts storming, Zetterberg grabs puck in his own corner and skates it by himself into Pitts zone, letting them get a line change.
In the end Detroit very nearly tied it at the end, and had their chances, despite playing the game in a surprisingly passive way, at least offensively after the first 10 minutes. When they opened up with the strong forechecking at the start, it was looking like LeTang and Orpik might not make it thru the game. But then they stopped. I think seeing another team stop hitting after doing so successfully, as the Flyers so often do, you have the perspective to realize that the strong hitting game is tiring, and difficult to sustain for more than a period.
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