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Stanley Cup News | Archive Index 2008
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Stanley Cup 2008 News - Sports News | Archive May 22, 2008
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Sizing up the Stanley Cup finalists
By Kevin Allen, USA TODAY
May 22, 2008
GOALTENDING
Chris Osgood: Brought back to Detroit in 2005-06 to be a backup, Osgood has reinvented himself. He's arguably playing better at 35 than he was at 25, primarily because he has tightened up his style and positioning. He's playing with his arms tucked closer to his body, and pucks don't leak through him. Osgood is 58-18-15 over the past three seasons, and he's the playoff leader with a 1.60 goals-against average.
Marc-Andre Fleury: When Fleury was sidelined with an ankle sprain earlier in the season, Ty Conklin became the starter and played impressively enough that it wasn't a given that Fleury would get his job back. As a No. 1 draft pick, Fleury had been handed the job. Now he had to fight to keep it, and Fleury has responded by showing the dominance expected from him when he was labeled as a franchise goalie. Fleury has a postseason-best .938 save percentage and three shutouts.
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Penguins nearly left town last season, now they're in the Stanley Cup final
Canadian Press©
May 21, 2008
The Pittsburgh Penguins quickly sold out next week's two home games for the Stanley Cup final.
That will give them 66 sellouts in a row. How fitting indeed.
Mario Lemieux has done it all for this organization both on and off the ice and now as part-owner he's overseen one of the great on-ice, off-ice turnarounds in pro sports.
Last season, the future of the team was very much in doubt. A new arena deal was dragging and rumours of a move were constant.
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Stanley Cup 2008 News - Sports News | Archive April 18, 2008
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Wednesday's Stanley Cup playoffs summary
Associated Press
April 17, 2008
OTTAWA (AP) - The Pittsburgh Penguins have advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals by completing a 4-game sweep of Ottawa, beating the Senators 3-1.
Evgeni Malkin and Jarko Ruutu (YAHR'-koh ROO'-too) scored second-period goals before Sidney Crosby's empty-netter clinched the victory.
Cory Stillman knotted the score midway through the middle period before Ruutu put the Penguins ahead to stay with 4:32 remaining in the stanza.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 21 shots for the Penguins, who got their first playoff sweep in 16 years and their first playoff series victory since 2001.
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Owners had little confidence in Nonis's ability to deliver Cup
MATTHEW SEKERES
April 15, 2008
VANCOUVER — Until this week, Dave Nonis was the Vancouver Canucks' man with the plan.
For three seasons, two of them ending before the playoffs, he was the face of the NHL team's competitive fortunes and it would have continued that way for a make-or-break 2008-09 campaign.
Yesterday, however, the course shifted.
Nonis, fired Monday by the club's ownership group, was deemed inadequate, and the man stepping up with the answers was Canucks chairman Francesco Aquilini.
During a 20-minute news conference, Aquilini explained why this bold decision was necessary, punctuated with this phrase: “Our fans deserved better.”
Most cuttingly, he delivered an indictment of Nonis's chief mission: making the team annually competitive. It became clear that Aquilini, the managing partner of three brothers who own the club, did not accept Nonis's results, and had little confidence in his ability to deliver a Stanley Cup.
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Stanley Cup 2008 News - Sports News | Archive April 16, 2008
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excuses. Our fans deserve better
Aquilini: Canucks owner can't pinpoint what
he wants in mumble-jumble speech
Jason Botchford, The Province
April 16, 2008
Wanted: A general manager who is a leader with a plan to win the Stanley Cup.
A person who can win said Cup soon.
Must have extensive experience. Must make playoffs. Annually.
Must know how to acquire top-tier offensive talent quickly and do it without mortgaging the future or overpaying.
Must build for both long-term and short-term success.
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The Joy of the Playoffs
Ashley Ragland
April 4,2008
Yes my friends, they're here. The 2008 NHL playoffs. Can you feel the excitement? This is truly one of the most exciting times to ever watch hockey, when the playoffs arrive in early April.
They come to town armed with ridiculously bad calls made by two referees, hard hits unlike anything you've ever seen, drastically improved goaltending that borders on the insane (you see goalies practically doing back-flips in order to prevent a goal being scored, no joke) and players who will continue playing with broken bones all over their bodies in order to help their team advance to the holy grail of hockey, the Stanley Cup.
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