Red Wings 4, Dallas 1

Detroit Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood and Dallas Stars goalie Marty Turco shakes hands after the Wings 4-1 win in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals.
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Detroit Red Wings Captain Nicklas Lidstrom accepts the Western Conference Trophy from Deputy NHL commissioner Bill Daly.
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Detroit wins and suddenly… it’s over in the West and the Wings reign supreme. So. Bring on those flightless birds from Pittsburgh. While they may not be able to fly, they can certainly score…and keep the opposition from scoring, too. Here’s Michael Rosenberg, writing in The Freep…

DALLAS — It is going to get harder now. And more fun. Way, way more fun.

The Red Wings are going to face the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals, which is all sorts of perfect. The television ratings will be comically low; that’s just reality for hockey right now. But forget TV ratings for a minute. Anybody who likes this game has to love this matchup.

When the Wings play the way they did Monday night, it is hard to imagine anybody beating them. The first period was a true clinic: the Wings got three net-front goals and completely dominated play. When Henrik Zetterberg scored a shorthanded goal in the second period, the Wings had four goals and Dallas had seven shots.

Unfortunately for the Wings, and happily for the NHL, the Pittsburgh Penguins have been even more dominant. The Penguins swept Ottawa in the first round. They took a 3-0 series lead on the Rangers in the second round before winning in five games. Then they took a 3-0 series lead on Philadelphia before winning in five games.

Combined, these teams have trailed in a series for precisely zero seconds. And that isn’t even the sexiest part of the matchup.

These Stanley Cup Finals will feature three of the league’s top six regular-season scorers — and a fourth player, Sidney Crosby, who is merely the most important player in the whole league. Crosby would have been an MVP candidate if not for a high ankle sprain in January; he finished with 72 points in just 53 games.

Yep…this is gonna be BIG Fun! Game One is Saturday evening in Deetroit. I should be feeling well enough by that point in time to crack a couple of brewskis while watching the Big Show.

Dang, but it’s GOOD when your team is on a roll. And we’re just four wins away from the Ultimate Trophy in sports. Wow…what a ride!