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The Detroit Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup title since 1955 with a four-game sweep of the Philadelphia Flyers. The series opened at the CoreStates Center in Philadelphia in front of 20,291 fans, the largest crowd ever to witness a hockey game in the state of Pennsylvania. Goaltender Mike Vernon made 26 saves in a 4–2 Detroit win as unheralded Red Wings Kirk Maltby and Joe Kocur gave Detroit a 2-1 lead after the first period. Sergei Fedorov tallied the game-winner just after the midway point of the second. Maltby scored again in Game 2, breaking a 2-2 tie in the second period with what would prove to be the game-winning goal. NHL JERSEYS Rod Brind’Amour scored both of the Flyers’ goals in the game, connecting for two power-play markers 1:09 apart late in the first period.The Red Wings returned home to a vocal and supportive crowd for Game 3 at Joe Louis Arena and responded with a 6-1 win to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the series. The Flyers opened the scoring on a first-period goal by John LeClair, but Detroit replied with three unanswered goals before the period ended. The win snapped Detroit’s eight-game and 33-year home ice losing streaks in the Stanley Cup Final. Sergei Fedorov and Martin Lapointe each tallied twice to pace the Red Wings.
The Red Wings completed the series sweep by defeating the Flyers 2-1 in Game 4. Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom’s goal late in the first period gave Detroit a lead it would not relinquish and Darren McCarty scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal on a spectacular individual effort at 13:02 of the second period. Goaltender Mike Vernon was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as the MVP of the playoffs, finishing the postseason with a 16-4 record and 1.76 goals-against average. Cheap NHL Detoit Red Wings Jerseys He allowed two goals or fewer in 17 of his 20 playoff games.After a try-out with the Phoenix Coyotes didn’t go as well as he would have liked last September, former Red Wings enforcer Aaron Downey is determined more than ever for another shot at an NHL roster.“I took a year off for a reason,” said Downey, in an interview with DetroitRedWings.com. “I trained the whole year. I worked on my conditioning. I worked on my body. I worked on my joints. Just the areas that needed work on, and I worked on my mental state.”
Downey played 56 games during the Wings’ 2008 Stanley Cup season, and he recently asked Wings general manager Ken Holland for a tryout when the team reports to Traverse City for training camp in September.“I approached them, just like I called them the year that we won the Cup,” said Downey, who earned a one-year contract in 2007 after winning over the coaching staff in training camp.“I still skated and I can still handle the puck,” he said. “I always thought that I would comeback, but I needed to rebuild the body and get ahead of everybody in the physical fitness department.”Downey, 35, signed again with the Wings in 2008-09, though he was assigned to Grand Rapids for much of the season. Last season, the Red Wings went in a different direction, NFL Jerseys From China signing another veteran enforcer, Brad May, to a one-year deal.In 2007-08, Downey collected single-season career-highs for games played and penalty-minutes (116). He also collected 10 fighting majors that season, with perhaps the most-memorable being his retaliatory bout with Ian Laperriere for the cheap hit that the Colorado forward had on Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom.
A nine-year NHL veteran, Downey was well-liked by his Wings’ teammates, came to their defense on the ice, and was a positive influence in the locker room. The feeling, Downey said, is mutual.Following his failed tryout with the Coyotes, Downey stayed in Arizona, where he has trained for the last 10 months. “Now I feel really good about myself,Fendi Shoes,” he said. “I’m just coming there – like I did in ’07 and ’08 – with a better attitude, a lucky-to-be-alive attitude. I really want to come in there, shut my mouth and just do what I do.”If I do play well in the events I have left I possibly could give him a bigger headache. Replica Jerseys We shall see.”We spoke at length about it and Monty said that he wants me there one way or the other.I want to show them that I’ve developed. And just because I took a year off doesn’t mean that I can’t handle a puck. I think I can handle it better now. … I’m in a better state of mind.”Downey said that he expects to return to Detroit in early September to take advance of the per-camp training sessions at Joe Louis Arena.“I’m really excited about coming back there,” he said, “and for some reason it just seems right.”