{"id":9487,"date":"2019-06-10T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=9487"},"modified":"2019-06-10T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T18:34:03","slug":"the-forgotten-story-of-the-penguins-2009-stanley-cup-clinching-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2019\/06\/10\/the-forgotten-story-of-the-penguins-2009-stanley-cup-clinching-win\/","title":{"rendered":"The forgotten story of the Penguins’ 2009 Stanley Cup-clinching win"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Penguins captain Sidney Crosby raises the Stanley Cup, June 12, 2009, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit. (Peter Diana\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you remember one thing about the Penguins\u2019 Game 7 victory over the Detroit Red Wings to claim the Stanley Cup 10 years ago, it\u2019s probably Max Talbot\u2019s clutch performance. His two goals were the difference in a 2-1 game that night at Joe Louis Arena.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you remember two things, the image of goalie Marc-Andre Fleury\u2019s sprawling save<\/a> on Detroit\u2019s Nicklas Lidstrom as time expired is probably seared into your mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Penguins teammates jump on goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury after defeating the Red Wings in Detroit in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final, June 12, 2009, in Detroit. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you remember three, one is almost certainly Penguin-turned-Red Wing Marian Hossa sipping stone-faced from his water bottle as the team he left in free agency for a better chance to win the Cup celebrated without him on the ice. <\/span><\/p>\n

Other details have tended to fade into history in the years since, but one of them was certainly among the most impressive elements of the victory at the time: the Penguins played most of the final two periods without their best player and captain, Sidney Crosby. <\/span><\/p>\n

His Game 7 effectively ended at about the 5:30 mark of the second period, when Detroit\u2019s Johan Franzen crushed him with a check into the boards in the neutral zone. <\/span><\/p>\n