GAME TWO RECAP (Red Wings 3, Penguins 1)

Yesterday I wrote that I couldn't quantify how many goals had been created by no-substitution icing. That was an error. The number is two. Detroit's second goal in Game One and their first goal in Game Two. Indeed, so much of Game Two was exactly like Game One--- the score, the backbreaking third goal by a minor league call-up whose name I still can't write without looking up, the Penguins controlling play for large stretches and outshooting the Wings and Chris Osgood coming up big where Marc-Andre Fleury is merely mortal. What was different? The Penguins jumping out to a lead, of course. And when it was still 1-0, Max Talbot threw a puck into the slot from behind the net, where Evgeni Malkin one-timed it right into some combination of Osgood's catching glove and the post, after which it skittered away harmlessly.

You've got to hand it to the Wings. They're less a hockey team than a golf swing.