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He would choose Browns over Steelers and Tim Horton's ahead of Dunkin' Donuts. Still, Cleveland-born winger Michael Rupp , formerly of the New Jersey Devils , was all about the Penguins when the free-agent season opened at noon Wednesday.

Rob Rossi is the Penguins beat writer. He can be reached via e-mail . Also check out Rossi's blog or follow him on Twitter .

No one even knows how long it's been since they witnessed the Pittsburgh Penguins hoisting their first Stanley Cup in 17 years.

87, lifted the Stanley Cup in a joyous championship celebration. As team captain, Crosby's name is expected to come first in the new list of players etched onto the bottom ring of the massive trophy in September.

Here we are on a hot June day, after a playoff season so good that only the crisp delivery and golden pipes of Dick Irvin and Danny Gallivan could have made it better.

Ruslan Fedotenko, weeping with joy, embraced a friend who had come down from the stands.

Petr Sykora, above, will be replaced in the Penguins' lineup by Miroslav Satan. This isn't the first time an injury will force Petr Sykora to miss a decisive game in the Stanley Cup final.

You are the Pittsburgh Penguins and you're home today, licking your wounds, pondering your suddenly bleak future, wondering what other possible solutions you can come up with to solve the riddle that is the Detroit Red Wings.

Pittsburgh GM Ray Shero could be a busy man come July 1. When the Edmonton Oilers won their rematch with the defending-champion New York Islanders in the 1984 Stanley Cup final, the victory touched off a run of four titles in five years that turned Wayne Gretzky and company into the dominant team of the late '80s. Fifteen years later, the hockey ...

The numbers leave little room for interpretation. The Detroit Red Wings are 11-1 at Joe Louis Arena during the 2009 playoffs, and the home team has won the first six games of the Stanley Cup final.

Alongside Scott Burnside's game preview , ESPN's Burnside and Pierre LeBrun posted a few tidbits about tonight's game between the Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins, starting with this: June 9, ESPN : Seeing the Wings parade with the Cup on their home ice remains a fresh memory for the Penguins.

Neither Sidney Crosby nor the rest of the Penguins are overly down about the 2-0 predicament they find themselves in on the morning of Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.

Left wing Matt Cooke said the Penguins need to make quicker decisions and then react accordingly when trying to figure out whether to skate pucks into the Red Wings' end or play dump-and-chase. "A lot of times they have four guys standing within the red and blueline, quite often with one defenseman back inside their zone ready to retrieve pucks," ...

Also See Wings' Datsyuk out for Game 4 with foot injury 1ST PERIOD DET PIT 2:39 0 1 18:19 Darren Helm Unassisted 1 1 2ND PERIOD DET PIT 0:46 2 1 8:35 2 2 10:34 2 3 14:12 2 4 3RD PERIOD DET PIT No scoring this period 2 4 PITTSBURGH -- The Stanley Cup finals won't duplicate last year's, and a momentum-swinging period by the Pittsburgh Penguins put in ...

Pittsburgh Penguins center Maxime Talbot is congratulated by Miroslav Satan, of Slovakia, left; Kris Letang, second from left; and Pascal Dupuis, right, after Talbot scored an open-net goal to seal a 4-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings in the third period of Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup finals in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, June 2, 2009.

Detroit Red Wings forward Marian Hossa never spit on a Terrible Towel in his brief time as a Pittsburgh Penguin.

Even randomly selected collections of empirical hockey evidence might strongly suggest that the Red Wings need zero help to beat the Penguins in this Stanley Cup final.

The Red Wings will leave the Motor City today in the driver's seat of the Stanley Cup final.

When Dan Bylsma drove from Wilkes Barre, Pa., to Uniondale, N.Y., for his first game as the Pittsburgh Penguins coach in mid-February -- the mode of transportation tells you something right there -- he admits to bringing some doubts with him.