What a game!
I have to admit that I did not watch the first half completely but I did watch from the half time on. Not sure what to think of the show during half time “The Who”. The light show was excellent but the music was pretty good. I can tell you one thing though - there was well over 10,000 (give or take a thousand) CSI fans in the house when the song “Who are you” came on. The crowd erupted with sing-a-longs for the entire song. I have so many favorite moments in the second half that I don’t know which one to post tomorrow. Come back tomorrow and see what I picked. Once again - Congrats go out to the New Orleans Saints!

PITTSBURGH - Chris Osgood completed a magical playoff run by making 20 saves Wednesday and the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup with a 3-2 victory over Pittsburgh.

With the Penguins swarming the goal in the closing minute, Osgood made two huge saves on Marian Hossa and Sidney Crosby to preserve the win.

It was Detroit’s 11th Stanley Cup triumph and Osgood was at the forefront of the post-season success.

Detroit was locked in a 2-2 series tie in the opening round against Nashville when Osgood was called on to replace goaltender Dominik Hasek. Detroit won its next nine games and Osgood finished with a 14-4 playoff record.

Henrik Zetterberg scored the first and third Detroit goals and gave the Red Wings a 3-1 lead 7:36 into the third period when he shoved the puck past goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury.

Hossa brought the Penguins within a goal with 1:27 to play — 20 seconds after Fleury went to the bench in exchange for an extra attacker.

One game after stopping 55 shots in a triple-overtime victory, Fleury made 27 saves Wednesday.

Detroit has won the NHL title four times in the last 11 seasons.

I’m not much of a hockey fan but I do know a bunch of people who bleed Detroit Red when it comes down to hockey and hockey championships. I would like to say congratulations to the Detroit Red Wings for winning in what I learned is their fourth cup in 11 seasons.

I just spent about a half hour looking through a lot of pictures of the old sports arena. The site is called Abandoned but not Forgotten. This site has a large collection of the arena before it was torn down. Many of them are new to me because I never had the chance to go and participate in any of the events. I promise that when the new arena is completed I will not only go to many games and events but I will even buy souvenirs to keep as a reminder of my experience.

The following link will direct you to a site where they are running a continuous stream of video so that you can see what is going on at the construction site. Click here to see the live cam shots of the site. I haven’t heard any final decisions on the name for the teams but it looks like the Woodpecker name will not be used due to the possible use of the word peckerhead - which to some folks is considered inappropriate. Well see what the name will be, I’m leaning towards Wranglers or even Cherokee - yes these are car names and they have a tie in with Toledo.