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It doesn't seem to matter who's playing, or even that your favourite team has been knocked out (or didn't even qualify) a long time ago. A game 7 in the NHL Stanley Cup finals is exciting enough to change your social calendar to make sure you don't miss it. Well I probably spoke too soon writing that, I had to drive up to Niagara Falls to play at my work's slo-pitch softball tournament (The results don't matter. We were consistent at least!) and spent seven hours in a car while the game was going on. Not too many of my friends made other plans regardless: They wanted to see if it was a start of a dynasty or if youth would prevail.

The odds were really stacked against the Penguins. The Wings had only lost one game at home during these playoffs. Fleury was lit up 5-0 the last time they visited Joe Louis arena. And sure they beat Detroit twice in a row before...but could they really do it again? I certainly didn't think they could, but like so many times before when faced with adversity, they overcame it and it was sure refreshing to see the young Penguins team take Lord Stanley. And let's be honest: Sidney Crosby was going to win the Cup at one point in his career. Why not now just before he has his sights set on Vancouver 2010 representing Canada? The experience of winning a do-or-die game 7 is exactly what Canada's best player needs, especially when he comes out on the winning end.

Anyway, now I can fully concentrate on the Heatley debacle and what the Sens will do at the draft, free agency and training camp to disappoint me next year.

Only four months to go.