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				<title><![CDATA[Pens beat Red Wings 2-1 to force Game 7 in Detroit]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer

PITTSBURGH(AP) -- Every kid growing up with a hockey stick and a
notion of being an NHL player wants to be in Game 7 of the
Stanley Cup finals. Sidney Crosby always did. Tyler Kennedy
estimates he played a thousand Game 7s in his driveway.

The Detroit Red Wings insist they can't wait for this one on
Friday night, back in the arena where they rarely lose and the
Pittsburgh Penguins appear hesitant and a bit intimidated.

They're not entirely convincing when they say it.

No doubt the Red Wings didn't want to take it this far after
dominating three of the first five games, yet Pittsburgh's
desperation 2-1 victory Tuesday in Game 6 extended a flighty
finals in which almost no game resembles the one before it.

That's what must worry the Red Wings more than a little, despite
their 11-2 scoring edge against Pittsburgh at home and the 11
Stanley Cup championship banners that already hang from the Joe
Louis Arena rafters.

Nothing seems to being going as scripted, such as third-line
forwards Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy scoring Pittsburgh's
only goals in Game 6, so who's to say what will happen in Game
7?

"We've got an amazing opportunity here," Crosby said after the
Penguins took a 2-0 lead early in the third, then held off surge
after surge from Detroit.

A year ago, the Red Wings paraded with the Stanley Cup in Mellon
Arena after winning 3-2 in Game 6. This time, with the Cup in
the building again, the Penguins made certain the silver trophy
wasn't handed out on the silver anniversary of franchise icon
Mario Lemieux being drafted in 1984.

"We weren't thinking about last year at all," Crosby said. "But
we found a way to survive. And now it's anyone's game. It's
going to be a great challenge."

For both teams. The Red Wings can win their fifth championship
in the last dozen seasons, a wave of success that no other team
in the four major American pro sports leagues has duplicated
during that time span.

"Going back at home, I think we feel pretty comfortable," Darren
Helm said.

And the Red Wings should, given their 11-1 record there in these
playoffs. Also, the home team has won each of the last six
finals Game 7s dating to 1987, and no road team has raised the
Cup following a Game 7 since Montreal in Chicago in 1971. That's
the last time that a team lost the first two games on the road,
as the Penguins did, and recovered to win the Stanley Cup.

Still, there's this for the Red Wings to think about: Two rounds
ago, Pittsburgh also lost the first two games on the road, then
went into Washington for Game 7 and won 6-2.

"Game 7 is a one-game, winner takes the trophy home," Penguins
coach Dan Bylsma said. "Who can put the other guy back on their
heels? Who can capitalize on the power play? ... I don't have a
lot of experience, but we just gave ourselves an opportunity
that we didn't have before. That's one game for the Stanley
Cup."

One more game than the Red Wings wanted to play.

"We're going home. Last game. You win, you win the Stanley Cup,"
Helm said. "So we're feeling pretty good, but we know it's not
going to be easy. They won a big game against Washington in
their rink, so we know they can win a Game 7 on the road."

Detroit knew the Penguins would play with desperation during a
possible elimination game and they did, taking 15 of the first
19 shots. They finally broke through goalie Chris Osgood when
Staal, whose short-handed goal got the Penguins going during
their 4-2 win in Game 4, put in his own rebound early in the
second period.

That 1-0 lead, as precarious as it was, held up until Kennedy
also stuffed a rebound past Osgood at 5:35 of the third.

Detroit got to within 2-1 when four-time Stanley Cup winner Kris
Draper ended his playoffs-long slump by scoring at 8:01, but the
Red Wings couldn't get the tying goal past Marc-Andre Fleury
despite being on the power play twice during the third period.

Fleury was lifted after allowing four goals in the second period
of Game 5 but, as he often does, rebounded from a bad game by
playing an exceptional one.

"I've learned throughout my years that it doesn't matter how
many goals you give up," Fleury said. "If you lose, you lose. It
doesn't matter if I give up one or five, I try to forget about
it, put it in the back and come to the rink with a smile."

The Penguins forced the first finals Game 7 in their history
without a goal from Evgeni Malkin and Crosby, who produced eight
of Pittsburgh's first 10 goals in the series.

"Every kid growing up, you play street hockey, you play in the
outdoor rinks, you always dream of that (Game 7)," Crosby said.
"There's always something that sticks out about playing for the
Cup in Game 7. We've got an amazing opportunity."]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Red Wings-Penguins Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer

Detroit At Pittsburgh, Game Six, 8:00 p.m. EDT

PITTSBURGH (AP) --  The Detroit Red Wings skated into Pittsburgh
for this very game last year, outplayed the Penguins in their
building and, in the final indignity, paraded with the Stanley
Cup on the same ice where Mario Lemieux once played.

Think Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and Marc-Andre Fleury
don't remember the emptiness and frustration they felt after
that Stanley Cup finals Game 6? After more than 100 games played
over more than eight grueling months, the season ends and the
other team celebrates before your friends, family and fans?

"We don't want that image in our heads again," Penguins forward
Max Talbot said Monday.

If the Red Wings win this Game 6 on Tuesday, a year and five
days after winning their last one there, it will be more than an
image to the Penguins. It will be an instant replay.

Not since Montreal clinched in Boston in 1977 and 1978 has a
team won the Stanley Cup in the same opponent's building two
seasons in a row, but the Red Wings will gladly take another
clincher in Pittsburgh if it means avoiding an ever-dangerous
Game 7.

"It's obviously a special night when you know you have a chance
to win the Cup in one single hockey game," goalie Chris Osgood.

The Penguins have heard for two days how they lost the Stanley
Cup with a more-than-miserable 5-0 loss in Game 5 on Saturday.
Even if they win Game 6 before an all-in-white home crowd, they
must go back to Detroit and inhospitable Joe Louis Arena, where
they have been outscored 10-2 while losing three games and, at
times, their tempers.

No, the Penguins don't need to be told what many outside their
dressing room are thinking: This one's over.

Penguins forward Ruslan Fedotenko is certain it's not.

Five years ago, his Tampa Bay Lightning were down 3-2 to the
Flames going into a road Game 6, with seemingly half of Alberta
filling Calgary's Red Mile entertainment district to celebrate.
Instead, Tampa Bay won in overtime, and the Lightning also took
Game 7 at home as Fedotenko scored both goals during their 2-1
victory.

"You don't think about Game 7," Fedotenko said. "You focus on
one game, one shift, and focus like it's your last shift, and
you do it again on the next shift. You play like that, you take
care of business, you put yourselves in a good position to win
that game."

The Penguins' problem is the Red Wings are in a much better
position. Two-way star Pavel Datsyuk's return after missing
seven playoff games with a foot injury gave them a big lift in
Game 5, and many of their players have been in games like this
before.

Nicklas Lidstrom, Kris Draper, Tomas Holmstrom and Kirk Maltby
played on all four Red Wings Stanley Cup winners since 1997, and
they can make it five on Tuesday. None of those previous four
finals went to a Game 7.

"You play for home ice and we have it, but that doesn't give you
any guarantees," Maltby said. "You always want to try and get
that fourth win sooner than later. We have to play like we're a
desperate team."

Especially against Crosby, who is second in the playoffs with 31
points but was neutralized in Game 5 by a combination of Henrik
Zetterberg, Lidstrom, Brian Rafalski and the Penguins'
ineptness. The Pittsburgh captain said it's one bad game and
it's over.

One more loss and the Penguins' season is over.

"I think we're going to bounce back," Crosby said. "We have all
year. We weren't happy with that effort, but we've moved on. I
think we realize that, when we were in 10th place in the middle
of the season, if they had told us that we had to win a game to
force Game 7, we would have taken it."

For all the Penguins' struggles in Detroit, Game 7 couldn't look
more attractive.

"I really believe it's not over," goalie Marc-Andre Fleury said.
"I really look for that Game 7. But at the same time we've got
to be ready to just play the game."

There's no talk now that the Red Wings are too tired or too slow
- funny how winning 5-0 quiets all that - but they also
understand that if Pittsburgh forces Game 7, the pressure shifts
from the Penguins to them.

"You have to find a way to win in the other team's building.
Except in this series, we've been able to do that," Draper said.
"It's up to us to respond, to play the kind of hockey we know we
can play."

And the way Marian Hossa believed they would play after he
jumped sides from Pittsburgh to Detroit after last year's
finals.

"It's the first time I've been in this position, so close,"
Hossa said. "That would be a dream come true (to win it in
Pittsburgh), obviously."

Not for the Penguins, who still remember Hossa's last-second
shot skittering along the goal line but not going in during
their decisive 3-2 loss in Game 6 last year.

To coach Dan Bylsma, the best teams and best players are those
that accomplish the most during the toughest times. For his
team, this is about as tough as it gets.

"I like it being a defining moment. Moments like this define
where you're at," he said. "Everyone in that room should be
ready to play their best game and make a difference."]]></description>
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