Marian Hossa and Sidney Crosby are one step closer to meeting, but this time the enemy lines will be clearly drawn. Hossa left Pittsburgh to try to get a taste of Lord Stanley. There’s one more game for Crosby and one more for Hossa, until the match-up we have all been waiting for: Detroit vs. Pittsburgh. In one more game, the Carolina Hurricanes will be downgraded to a tropical depression. For Detroit, one more game will deliver yet another Western Conference Banner. This is the norm for Detroit. They play in an arena named after a boxer. Detroit has been giving their opponents the KO punch. Meanwhile, the Penguins have had Sid being Sid and Marc-Andre Fluery being Fluery. One game away from the ultimate hockey supremacy match-up. One year ago, it was the Red Wings drinking from Lord Stanley, but this year will be different. You have to lose one to get one. These Penguins have shown why they are the perfect representative out of the East. It is because Brooks Orpik has the heart and the will of a champion. He has delivered a fatal blow to the Hurricanes by hitting them 71 times. The Penguins will be no slouch for the Red Wings. This series has the potential to go seven. The Sheriff’s pick: Crosby and Fluery. Sorry Marian, but Sidney will smash your dreams. If you would have stayed in Pittsburgh, you would have been drinking from Lord Stanley this year, but instead, you were disloyal and left to where the money was talking. Now you’re one series away from not getting the Stanley Cup.
It will be 22 year old Crosby lifting the Cup on your ice. Chris Osgood will be Os-Bad. You will be disappointed again because you will be denied a Stanley Cup by a smarter and younger Penguins team.
