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THIRD PERIOD
18:21: Crosby comes around the back of the net with the puck. He shoots to the far side. It his the far post and bounces off and skids along the goal line behind Osgood. Crosby appears to get it back and shoots to the far side again. Zetterbe...
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SECOND PERIOD
19:30: Kennedy circles around from the corner and whips a
wrister from the right faceoff circle. Osgood is able to hang on
despite having Jordan Staal wrestling in front for position.
18:34: More Therrien-esque hijinks from Bylsma as he has ...
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FIRST PERIOD
17:27: After a slow first two and a half minutes, Mark Eaton touches up a puck behind his net for icing.
16:58: Fleury gets a little daring with the puck behind his net and has it stolen by a Red Wing. Thankfully for the Penguins, nothing com...
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PREGAME
-Greetings from a simply beautiful day here in Detroit. Yes, such a thing exists.
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A random sighting in the media parking lot next to Joe Louis Arena at 12:30 a.m.:
Miroslav Satan must still have some fans in the Queen City....
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"Up" took off at the box office, riding a wave of reviews that reached for superlatives such as masterwork, enchanting and exquisite. Top 10 lists for 2009, here it comes.
The Pixar movie made a reported $68.2 million this weekend. The Associated Pr...
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Detroit forward Johan Franzen pulled into a three-way tie with Evgeni Malkin and Carolina's Jussi Jokinen for the playoff lead with his third game-winning goal. Since the start of the 2007 playoffs, no one has scored more winning goals than Franzen:
P...
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Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk will miss tonight's Game 2 due to a foot injury. He has not played since he was injured while blocking a shot in Game 2 of the Western Conference final. Additionally, forward Kris Draper will not dress. He has been hobbled...
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Like lots of other folks, I plunked down my $6.50 (matinee price) to see "Drag Me to Hell" on Saturday. Universal Studios did not show us the movie in advance, which is why we had to use a wire review, and I was curious about the Sam Raimi horror picture ...
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President Barack Obama's choice of Pittsburgh as the city where America will host the leaders of 18 nations and the European Union, to review progress in fighting the world economic recession, is a tremendous honor and a great opportunity.
Cities that hos...
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Jay Leno's reign over late night television ended on Friday. The host of "The Tonight Show" gave the keys to the 11:35 pm franchise on NBC to comedian Conan O'Brien, who begins his run as host tomorrow night.
After 17 years as host of "The Tonight Show," ...
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ST. JUDE, the patron saint of hopeless cases, no doubt receives a lot of appeals from Pennsylvania (but not concerning the Pittsburgh Penguins - everyone here knows their Stanley Cup quest is far from hopeless). Political causes often need St. Jude's help...
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Scared giants
Why is it the health insurance and pharmaceutical companies are now suddenly willing to say they'll rein in their profits slightly over several years rather than have single-payer health care on the table as a viable option? Why are they wi...
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Is oil a finite resource? If so, should we do something to manage our consumption of it? These are the two questions Jack Kelly does not ask in his column "Fuel Policy Is Foolish" (May 24).
He does say that higher CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) st...
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The PG should fire Jack Kelly as a columnist. His pieces are full of inaccuracies, exaggerations, misleading statements and right-wing fear-mongering. They do a disservice to the PG and its readers. A case in point is his column "Fuel Policy Is Foolish" (...
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PG columnist Jack Kelly's criticism of enhanced automobile mileage (CAFE) standards ("Fuel Policy Is Foolish," May 24) might have deserved respectful consideration 10 years ago but fails to acknowledge current realities.
Of these, the imperative to reduc...
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I do not know Schuyler Foerster but neither did I know Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Foerster's address ("Dear Graduates ...," May 24 Forum) must be the second-best one to date.
How lucky for La Roche College graduates to hear a message of such importance and rele...
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When I saw the Sunday Forum piece "They Died for You" (May 24) by Rick Atkinson, I thought it was the Memorial Day standard fare written as much out of a sense of obligation as a memorial. But it was something else. That short article gave me a better und...
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I enjoyed reading PG Executive Editor David M. Shribman's interesting column on the fall of the Berlin Wall in last Sunday's Post-Gazette ("After the Wall," May 24). However, it could have been more interesting had he mentioned the irony that 20 years aft...
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Regarding "Shame on the Press" (May 24 Forum): Shame, indeed!
Richard Saccone's commentary was a collection of empty rhetorical devices, irrelevancies and straight-faced sarcasm, which reflects badly on his own scholarship and military career and on the ...
