Young Penguins focused on the prize

Pittsburgh was up 2-0 after the first. To be honest I had to dash out from the cottage to a local watering hole to see the gold medal game between Russia and Canada. Just got the tail end, as my start time was screwed up. We did not tune into the Pens game until after. Philly won the last one so now the young Pen’s have to refocus and put the flyers away. They don’t want to go back to Philly and give the flyers any more confidence.
The Stars won again yesterday and giving the Red Wings some trouble. Detroit needs the “killer instinct” back and put Dallas away in their own barn, because they don’t want a game 7, where anything can happen.
Anyway back to the Pen’s and Flyers. The penguins scored again to make it 3-0 at the half way point in the game. They have their heel on the flyers throat, now they just have to finish them off. Pittsburgh scored on the power play again. The flyers are now just chasing the penguins around and the result is getting caught out of position and taking penalties. The pens are lethal on the power play and make it 5-0 with about 1 minute left in the second period. Jordan Staal scored on a rebound.

The final score in the game was 6-0. Marc Andrea Fleury was solid in the net making 21 saves. He made a great pad save with about six minutes to go, and then had to kill off a penalty with a buck forty left to preserve the shutout.

Michel Therrien should get some credit here as he kept a young team focused on the job at hand and the result was the Penguins most complete game of the playoffs thus far. It could not have come at a better time.

The Penguins won the “Prince of Wales” trophy as the Eastern Conference Champions. It was presented to Sidney Crosby, the youngest captain in NHL history to lead his team to the Stanley Cup finals. If you watched the presentation you would have noticed that Crosby did not touch the trophy at all. My guess is that if Detroit wins the next game, Nick Lidstrom won’t be touching the “Clarence Campbell” Trophy either.
Sincerely Walt Webb
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