I'm proud by the way they are playing, they out hustled Detroit many times and the majority of the night, but when you can't catch a break, it wears you down to the ground. I can dig that. They aren't getting beat down like they did last year, but unfortunately the puck won't cooperate. Back to the drawing board. 7 games might be the ticket if we take 2 in Pittsburgh, so I'm keeping fingers crossed. Tonight wasn't a must win but, very important and we needed a split series going into game 3 back home. Pittsburgh can still take them and these have been very good games. Detroit isn't as good as hyped, but they are a worthy, worthy champion. We'll see how the rest of this thing plays out. We were down 0-2 to Washington also. Time to give it all we got.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings are in the exact spot they were a year ago -- they hold a 2-0 lead against the Penguins heading on the road for Game 3 at Mellon Arena.
Yet, to them, it feels different.
"I've been impressed with how they've played," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said of the Penguins. "They play hard right to the end. They put a lot of pressure on us."
To no avail, though.
The Red Wings take consecutive 3-1 victories into tomorrow night's game, the second one of those wins coming last night at Joe Louis Arena.
The Red Wings were not as dominant in these two games as they were in the opening two here last year. In those games, the Penguins were admittedly a bit awestruck by the stage and got shut out twice, 4-0 in Game 1 and 3-0 in Game 2.
"This Pittsburgh team has played hard from the drop of the puck," Babcock said.
"They had a lot of chances, created a lot," Zetterberg said, referring to the Penguins' performance last night, "but Osgood played good and kept us in it."
Detroit knows there is lots of hockey left to be played. By no means is this series over.
You'd think he'd say WTF is that all about then blow his whistle. Guess not.
That's why we're down two games, right? 
DEAL WITH IT.
