One down... Yawn... Three to go.

I was hoping for a better game tonight, at least for the Pens to make it a game before the Wings put it away... I should have known better when Pittsburgh's coach Michel Therrien actually compared Nicklas Lidstrom and Sergei Gonchar as both "elite defensemen". What's Québécois for "LOL"? Some observations of the spring chickens:

I wonder if Marc-Andre Fleury's first "trip" to Detroit was all he'd expected. (Sorry - low hanging fruit, but still, it was there...)

Jordan Staal I like. He's pretty tough.

Crosby? Overrated. More like the second coming of John Leclair or Alexei Kovalev, rather than Gretzky or Lemieux.

Malkin I thought was a little better, until I saw him absolutely victimized on a giveaway by countryman Pavel Datsyuk. Maybe that was just nerves, I think Malkin has more in him.

Oh, and I can't resist. I don't know if a team can win a cup with a line of "You, Me, and Dupuis..."

On the Wings side:

Ozzie MVP. If Ozzie hadn't been stellar in the 1st period, when the Pens were actually playing decently, it would have been a very different game.

Lidstrom? Two penalties? And a penalty on Holmstrom taking away a good goal. Hrmmm... Wow. I put the refs on bias watch for game two.

Loved seeing some of the Pens running into the Kron Wall.

Mikael Samuelsson's wraparound sealed it for me. That one was just. Too. Easy. Game over. Go home, Penguins. Just watch your step out of the Joe, that last one's a doozy.