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Pittsburgh won third championshipThe Pittsburgh Penguins captured the 2009 Stanley Cup with a 2-1 win over the Red Wings in Game 7 and became the first road club to win in this series and avenged 2008 painful six-game loss to Detroit in the final round. Pittsburgh claimed its third championship in team history and first since taking back-to-back titles in '91 and '92. Pittsburgh head coach Dan Bylsma became the 14th rookie head coach and just the second hired in the middle of the season to win a championship.
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No team took more hits as a result of the salary cap staying flat than the Detroit Red Wings this summer. With Nick Lidstrom, Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, Brian Rafalski and Johan Franzen eating up more than 50% of the team's cap space, GM Ken Holland had to watch as Marian Hossa, Mikael Samuelsson, Conklin, Jiri Hudler and Tomas Kopecky all headed elsewhere. It would be a mistake, though, to count out what has been the best franchise the past two decades. Dan Bylsma took over for fired coach Michel Therrien late last season and installed an aggressive system that woke up the Penguins, vaulted them back into playoff contention and all the way to the team's third Stanley Cup title. Although the Pittsburgh Penguins lost a third of their starting defense corps with the departures of Rob Scuderi and Hal Gill, they'll begin their championship defense with key contributors Bill Guerin, Ruslan Fedotenko and Craig Adams. All three forwards took pay cuts to stay in Pittsburgh and, with the free-agent additions of shot-blocking defenseman Jay McKee and mammoth center Mike Rupp, the Pens look poised to make another run at the Stanley Cup. After making it all the way to the Conference Finals last season, the Chicago Blackhawks made some major moves to try and push themselves into the Stanly Cup Finals this year. Chicago signed the five-time All-Star Marian Hossa and Tomas Kopecky from the rival Red Wings and added dependable defensive forward John Madden on a cheap one-year deal. Unfortunately Hossa underwent surgery to repair a small rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder. So he won't be ready to play until at least late November. With all the money flying around, Chicago had to make some sacrifices. Those included the loss of Matt Walker and Nikolai Kahbibulin. Having secured the first Presidents' Trophy in franchise history with a 117-point regular season, the San Jose Sharks were then eliminated in the opening round of the playoffs by the Anaheim Ducks. General manager Doug Wilson and coach Todd McLellan did plenty of figuring in the offseason and waited until just before the opening of training camp to sign two-time 50-goal scorer Dany Heatley. In order to ease the cap crunch, Christian Ehrhoff and Brad Lukowich were traded to the Vancouver Canucks. A lot went right for San Jose last season, including the fact seven players topped 50 points, so much of coach Todd McLellan's challenge will be in simply getting his troops to perform up to the same level. The Stanley Cup finals in the last five seasons
2009 Pittsburgh Penguins - Detroit Red Wings - 4:3
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