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PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Penguins spent a last few hours together Sunday, cleaning out their lockers, showing off the Stanley Cup at a Pirates game and wondering what could possibly top beating the Detroit Red Wings in a road Game 7

DETROIT – General manager Ken Holland says Detroit Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom missed the last two games of the conference final because of surgery

HARBOUR GRACE, N.L. – The mayor of Harbour Grace, N.L., says he intends to honour a Stanley Cup bet struck with his counterpart in Halifax.Harbour Grace is the home of Detroit Red Wings forward Dan Cleary, while Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby hails from Cole Harbour, just outside of Halifax

FRISCO, Texas – Mike Modano was caught off guard when the Dallas Stars fired coach Dave Tippett this week.Yet, the surprising move by former teammate and new Stars general manager Joe Nieuwendyk isn’t changing Modano’s mind

PITTSBURGH – Oh, those kids.Jordan Staal is 20, Sidney Crosby is 21, Kris Letang and Evgeni Malkin are 22, Marc-Andre Fleury is 24. In another sport, they’d be called prospects

Muhammad Ali was at Joe Louis Arena, perhaps waiting for a fight to break out. One did in Game 7 of the NHL championships, but not in the traditional hockey sense

DETROIT – This was the rare sequel that outdid the original.Few gave the Pittsburgh Penguins much chance to dethrone the Detroit Red Wings in the first Stanley Cup finals rematch in 25 years

DETROIT – The Red Wings can accept that Pittsburgh is the Stanley Cup champion. Getting snubbed by Sidney Crosby is another matter.After watching Pittsburgh hoist the Cup on Detroit’s ice, the Red Wings lined up to shake hands with the Penguins as is custom in the NHL playoffs

DETROIT – In many ways, this was just like any other day for Max Talbot.He woke up in the morning feeling like it was going to be the best day of his life – and it turned out that it actually was

DETROIT – The only thing Marian Hossa would like to change is the final result of Game 7.After watching his former teammates celebrate with the Stanley Cup on Friday night, Hossa wasn’t feeling any regret about his decision to sign with the Detroit Red Wings last summer

Scoring summary from Friday’s NHL playoff game:Penguins 2 at Red Wings 1First PeriodNo Scoring.Penalty – Stuart Det (slashing) 11:24.Second Period1

WINNIPEG – Rookie Hershey Bears goalie Michal Neuvirth kept looking down in disbelief at the trophy in his hand.He and his Hershey Bears had just won the American Hockey League Calder Cup championship Friday night with a 4-1 Game 6 victory over the Manitoba Moose and Neuvirth was holding his playoff MVP trophy

DETROIT – A report card look at the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings, evaluating their performance in the Stanley Cup final:FORWARDSPenguins, A: The prevailing thought was that Pittsburgh couldn’t match the Red Wings depth up front – WRONG

Movements in the world of hockey Friday:American Hockey LeagueHARTFORD WOLF PACK-Re-signed D David Urquhart.SPRINGFIELD FALCONS-Named William Bullock senior account executive

PITTSBURGH – Evgeni Malkin didn’t have to say very much during these playoffs to make a statement.The reluctant superstar put together the most productive spring in more than a decade, racking up a playoff-best 36 points and helping lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup

DETROIT – Sidney Crosby left Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final with an injury to his midsection, but returned for the start of the third period

DETROIT – The Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings are scoreless after the first period in the seventh and deciding game of the Stanley Cup

DETROIT – The Red Wings veterans elected to skip Detroit’s game-day skate ahead of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final, but Sidney Crosby and the entire Pittsburgh Penguins squad was on the ice on Friday morning

The bitter fight for control of the Phoenix Coyotes seems headed to overtime after courthouse hours came and went Friday without a ruling from the Arizona bankruptcy judge presiding over the insolvent team’s fate

CALGARY – Hockey Canada’s summer goalie camp was on the budget chopping block earlier this year, but the organization found the means to run it again