stanley cup finals

The Pittsburgh Penguins' march to the Stanley Cup finals has paid off for coach Michel Therrien. General manager Ray Shero says the team has agreed to terms on a new three-year contract for Therrien.

Therrien had one year left on his contract. The new deal includes a raise for this season, and goes through the 2010-11 season, slated to be the team's first in a planned $290 million arena.

The Detroit Red Wings are playing a game they didn't want to play, in a city where they don't want to be, against a growing-confident Pittsburgh Penguins team they were certain would be long gone by now.

Such are the perils of the Stanley Cup finals where, as the Red Wings discovered during a riveting but heartbreaking Game 5, no lead is truly safe and no team is safely eliminated until the final...

The Pens rallied late to force OT vs. the Wings in Game 5, then stayed up late (3OT) to send the Stanley Cup Finals back home.

The Pittsburgh Penguins were less than a minute away from going home for good. They weren't ready yet. Maxime Talbot stuffed his own rebound past Chris Osgood with 35 seconds left in regulation against the Detroit Red Wings, sending Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals to overtime on Monday night tied at 3-3.

After a win in Pittsburgh, the Pens hope to even up the Stanley Cup Finals vs. the Red Wings in Game 4. Can they do it?

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Top-line forward Tomas Holmstrom took an on-ice spin Saturday morning with his Detroit Red Wings teammates to test out his injured right leg hours before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals.

After gingerly skating for about 20 minutes and flexing his legs, the winger said he felt good but wasn't sure if he would play.

"It was a pretty good skate. I felt it a little bit," Holmstrom said. "That's the concern right there. We're trying to do the smartest thing and figure it out before game time.

Top-line forward Tomas Holmstrom took an on-ice spin Saturday morning with his Detroit Red Wings teammates to test out his injured right leg hours before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals.

After gingerly skating for about 20 minutes and flexing his legs, the winger said he felt good but wasn't sure if he would play.