Pittsburgh Penguins have done it; they have won the Stanley Cup. With an amazing performance form Max Talbot scoring two goals in the second period which helped the Pittsburgh Penguins overcome the absence of Sidney Crosby the captain to bring Detroit Red Wings to a devastated defeat with the final score of four Pittsburgh Penguins and three to Detroit Red Wings ?4-3?.

If Detroit Red Wings had won the Stanley Cup, they would?ve become the first in NHL to repeat champions as they had won the title in 1997 and 1998, but this turned out to be the Pittsburgh Penguin?s game in the end. The last time Pittsburgh Penguins had won the championship was in 1991 and 1992, and the team was lead by the owner, Mario Lemieux.

This victory couldn?t have been possible if Marc Andre Fleury hadn?t made that amazing clutch diving save across the crease which prevented the four time champion Nicklas Lidstrom with the remaining of one second.

The aftermath of the game is that there is going to be a big parade at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a celebration for the champions of the Stanley Cup. It will not be as such of a big budget parade as the mayor of Pittsburgh, Luke Ravenstahl who was on the side of Penguins losing the game said:

The Steelers? championship parade cost us roughly $6.5 million in street closures, float rental, security expenditures, and sanitation overtime not to mention the incalculable loss of man-hours for our struggling local businesses.

Pittsburgh can?t afford to forget how the four Super Bowl parades we had in the 1970s were followed by mill closures, layoffs, and a decade-long recession. Let?s go Wings!

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