Young star Malkin makes up for the lacklustre 2008 post-season to capture Conn Smythe with the most playoff points since 1993 One year after taking heavy criticism for his disappearance on hockey’s grandest stage, Evgeni Malkin was hailed as the grandest performer of them all Friday. Malkin, who had the highest post-season point total since …
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It has been four years since Jean-Sebastien Giguere won the Conn Smythe Trophy, and the Anaheim Ducks goaltender’s outstanding memory of it was that it felt lousy. So when the media horde descended on the Honda Center after the charter flight from hell on Tuesday afternoon, and began bandying candidates’ names about for the Stanley …
PITTSBURGH — No player has ever come from further away than Henrik Zetterberg to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. The Detroit Red Wings didn’t select the Swede until late in the seventh round of the 1999 NHL draft and that decision has never looked better than right now. Zetterberg led his team …
DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings would be in rough shape without Sweden. In fact, their general manager insisted the Western Conference champions would’ve been knocked out of the post-season long ago – if they even made it — without their seven Swedes. Thanks to Nicklas Lidstrom and several countrymen. Detroit is set to meet …
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Dominik Hasek held off the Chicago Blackhawks to help the Detroit Red Wings get their 13th consecutive home win, moving within one of the franchise record set in 1964-65. Henrik Zetterberg scored the tiebreaking goal with 6:22 left and then added an empty-net goal. Pavel Datsyuk and Kris Draper also scored for the Red Wings …
