They should have been tired after game five, which had three overtimes.

They had been oh so close in that game. Everything was ready, the champagne and the Stanley Cup.

However, with 34 seconds left in regulation time in that game and in the Pittsburgh Penguins' season, Detroit's party was spoiled.

There would be no champagne, and no Stanley Cup that night in the city that calls itself, "Hockeytown."

In game six, the Red Wings didn't want one, let alone three overtimes to happen again.

This time they were ready, winning it in regulation in Pittsburgh's Mellon Arena, where hardly any visiting team ever wins.

But they did it! On Wednesday night, June 4th, Detroit won its fourth Stanley Cup in 11 years and its first since 2002.

After replacing goaltender Dominik Hasek in the first round of the conference finals, Chris Osgood was once again the man in the net for Detroit, just as he always has been come playoff time.

When the 2007-2008 hockey season began, hockey writers were all but handing the Stanley Cup to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

They mentioned the fact that the Penguins were, "young, fast and exciting," whereas the Red Wings were like one of those old automobiles coming off the assembly line, "old and slow."

They were wrong. The Penguins' future looks bright and one day it might be their captain, Sidney Crosby who gets to skate around with the Stanley Cup.

But not this year. This year the experience of the Red Wings won out.

It's the same old song – a Stanley Cup in Motown.