It’s been a long season and yet if we could have had another 10 minutes or so … maybe it would have been different.
The Red Wings were stoned by Marc Andre Fleury and the crossbar, and they came up short against the wunderkind of the NHL, Sidney Crosby and his Russian buddy-in-uncalled-penalties Evgeni Malkin.
Yes, Malkin’s first goal should have been whistled down for icing. But it was clear at some point in the second period in Game 6 that the Wings were simply out of gas.
Call it fatigue, call it injuries, call it fatigue and injuries, the fact is that it takes 16 wins to take the Stanley Cup home to Sweden for the Summer. The Wings could only manage 15 wins this playoff season.
