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Jo Ann Lawery
Jo Ann Lawery now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. When she isn't writing for eSports and other web sites, this avid hockey and baseball fan works in, where else, a casino as a "slot club ambassador."
 
By Jo Ann Lawery
Published on 05/23/2008
 
The Stanley Cup Finals are set. it's only right that the two best teams in the league all this season, Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh penguins are fighting for the right to hold the Stanley cup high.
Pittsburgh is trying for its first Stanley Cup since 1992.

The Rolling Stones had it all wrong. You can always get what you want.

Starting Saturday night, it's just not what the NHL wants, but something hockey fans wish to see as well, and that's a Stanley Cup Final between the two best teams in the league this season, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings.

The Penguins, who haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1992, have one of hockey's newest superstars in Sidney Crosby, who not only is hockey's youngest captains, but at the age of 20, he isn't even old enough to drink yet. (At least not in the United States. In Canada, that's a different story.) If the Penguins do win the Stanley Cup, he will have to watch his teammates drink champagne from it.

While Crosby and some of his Penguins teammates are "newbies" to this Stanley Cup "thing," the guys from the Motor City have been there, done that, and got their bling already.

The Penguins came into the league in 1967. They are part of the "Blue bloods" of hockey, having been one of the "Original Six." (Hockey 101 here. The "Original Six" are the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit.)

While the Penguins have one of the youngest teams in hockey, while the Red Wings have the oldest. But, don't think for a moment that the "old guys" can't compete with the likes of "Sid the Kid" and his equally talented teammate, Evgeni Malkin, who by the way is old enough to drink in both Canada and the U.S.

The Red Wings are more than ready with a lot of firepower of their own, and if one were to compare them to another sports team, it would be the New York Yankees.

Like the Yankees, the Red Wings fan base is loyal, very passionate, and the team has a star studded lineup that many hockey fans know. And like the Yankees, they're the team that you just love to hate- a lot.

Come this June, there will be a victory parade somewhere.

Will it be once again in Detroit (and we're just not talking about the Pistons, either), or will it be a team that comes from a city that also knows a thing or two about championships, Pittsburgh?

Keeping with the Pittsburgh tradition, the Penguins also wear black and gold and their fans also wave those "terrible towels" at their home arena, which is nicknamed, "the Igloo." Who knows which team will win, but sometimes you can always get what you want.