Wow, what a boring P.O.S. game. Seriously. After a while, I just didn't care anymore. The refs and the league just made it so meaningless in the end. How baffling that game 7 was one of the best reffed games, and yet it was full of mistakes. First goal was off of a waved off icing. Here's a new fucking rule. Forget the effort part of the rule. If one team shoots the puck over the goal line from their side of the red line, and the other team recovers first, it is icing. Fuck the gray area bullshit of waved off icing.
The funny thing about the game was that Pittsburgh in the end, was the more balanced team with a solid if not series winning effort from their 3rd and 4th lines. The tradition that led to all of Detroit's recent cups(except last year), has up and gone away. Detroit ended up being a 1.5 line team.
Detroit also has some serious issues on their blueline. all 6 of their players had average or below average games last night. I was not impressed by Rafalski last year and that trend continues. Lebda and Stuart were giving me eye cancer.
What happened to Hossa? Widely acknowledged as being one of the top 50 players in the NHL he was pretty much absent from the proceedings. My impression is that he was probably freaked out about the whole chickens coming home to roost and couldn't even tie his own shoelaces. How does a top 50 player not even score once?
Datsyuk and Zetterberg couldn't carry this team all by themselves like they did last season. During the finals last year, it seemed like D&Z took every other shift. Datsyuk was obviously injured and the rest of the team seemed old and out hustled by game 7. Perhaps the fact that the league and officials made a game 7 possible by their performance in games 3 and 4 should not be forgotten. If Detroit wins one of those games, as they probably should have, Pittsburgh would not have made it past game 6.
I don't give Malkin the Smythe. I don't get it. Despite Malkin's point totals, he really was marginal in a couple series and in the final was definitely average. My pick would have been Fleury who won the series vs. the Flyers for them and had been solid at minimum, but mostly excellent throughout. Credit must also go to Pittsburgh's 6 D-men who really were the stars of the team and this play off run. Who'd ever think that Pittsburgh's true superstars are on their blueline?
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