It took seven games, but after 17 years, the Stanley Cup is coming back to Pittsburgh.

In the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, the Pittsburgh Penguins lost to the Detroit Red Wings in a hard fought series. Now, they're going to play again for the 2009 Cup, and this time the Penguins are hoping for a different result.

Some hockey purists thought this would never happen. But, it has. The NHL Awards Show won't be held in Toronto, Canada this June. For the next three years, it'll be held in the desert.

The 2007-2008 hockey season is over and once again it's time for the annual thank you awards. So, let's get started...

It took six games, but in the end it was like another "Motown oldie," as the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins and brought the Stanley Cup back to Detroit.

He's the face of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He's tough, hard working and he's Pittburgh born and bred. It's not Sidney Crosby. It's his teamate, Ryan Malone.

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.

His teammates, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, get all the sports headlines. However, but if it wasn't for the man in the net, Marc Andre Fleury, who knows where the skaters from the "Steel City" might be now?

Ask anyone in their right mind to throw on 35 pounds of equipment and stand in front of a net while rubber pucks are hurtled at them in excess of 90 miles per hour, the likely response will be an emphatic, "No!" If you get to know those people, chances are they have more good advice to give if you ever needed it down the road. Read on to understand goalies from their perspective.

When the National Hockey League and the NHL Players Association cancelled the 2004-05 season, it looked as though it was the end of hockey in the United States as we know it. Three years later, I, along with many others, couldn't have been more wrong and happier.