As Mats Sundin cuddles with fiancée Josephine Johansson and watches the Detroit Red Wings try to end the hockey season with yet another Stanley Cup championship tonight, he'll be getting a sense of how the other half lives.
Following yet another lost season at the helm in the city that Stanley forgot, Sundin must be giving some serious thought to cutting his losses in Toronto and relocating to a city where hockey can actually be fun again.
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It's all but certain now. Sometime over the next few nights, as this not-quite-what-we-expected Stanley Cup Final between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins closes out, Nicklas Lidstrom will make NHL history while, at the same time, putting one of the most pointless post-season fallacies ever to bed once and for all.
All things being equal, it seems almost a foregone conclusion that Lidstrom will accept the most fabled piece of hardware in hockey - perhaps as early as Monday night - and hoist it high above his head. Watch closely. You'll be seeing history.
The Detroit Red Wings are just one win away from the Stanley Cup.
Jiri Hudler beat Marc-Andre Fleury at 2:26 of the final frame to give the Red Wings their first lead of the evening, a lead they made hold up as the Wings took a 3-1 lead in the series as the scene shifts to Motown.
So, it looks like the Chicago Blackhawks are going to be hosting the Detroit Red Wings in next season's Winter Classic at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. At least, that's the rumor that has started to leak. Nothing's official quite yet.
Let's hope that it does become official soon. Very soon. Like between Game 4 and 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals soon. This would be awesome to watch, and it would be great for the game.
Jiri Hudler has given the Red Wings a 2-1 lead in the third period during Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final.
Hudler beat Marc-Andre Fleury at 2:26 of the final frame to give the Red Wings their first lead of the evening as they look to go up 3-1 in the series before the scene shifts to Motown.
