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The Stanley Cup Finals continue tonight and JustBet Sportsbook is your home for all of the hockey playoff betting you can handle! The Detroit Red Wings took Game 1 of this series in dominant fashion, easily dismantling the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1. The winning goal was scored in the second period by C Johan Franzen, who has gotten off to a great start in the Finals. The Wings are -140 favorites to take a 2-0 lead in this series. The ‘total’ has come down a tad after the four-goal performance last night, as it has been lined at 5.5 over -115.

Marc Andre-Fleury 12-6, 2.66 GAA, .904 SV% in playoffs

Chris Osgood 13-4, 2.02 GAA, .930 SV% in playoffs

The stars were nowhere to be found in last night’s Game 1 for the Pens. LW Ruslan Fedotenko scored Pittsburgh’s only goal of the game in the first period. C Sidney Crosby, RW Miroslav Satan, C Evgeni Malkin, and C Jordan Staal only combined for one assist and 11 shots on goal for the game. That just isn’t going to cut it against a Detroit offense that just isn’t backing down. G Marc-Andre Fleury didn’t have a miserable game, as he stopped 27 of 30 shots faced. By normal playoff standards, those numbers wouldn’t get it done. By Pittsburgh’s playoff standards, the effort should’ve been enough to keep it in the game. This has been the same Fleury that Pens’ bettors should be used to in the playoffs by now, so it’s going to be up to the stars of the offense to produce more goals if the Penguins are winning the Stanley Cup.

The Red Wings couldn’t have pictured getting off to a better start in this series. They played Game 1 as if it was a Game 7, and clearly looked like the better side for the mass majority of the game. Much like Pittsburgh, the stars for the Red Wings really didn’t have fantastic games. Even though Franzen and LW Henrik Zetterberg both contributed to the game-winning goal, there were still no contributions from RW Marian Hossa or C Pavel Datsyuk. Datsyuk is hoping to give it a go in Game 2, but his status with his injury is still up in the air. The superstar of Game 1 for the Wings was G Chris Osgood, who had one of his best games of the playoffs when he stopped 31 of Pittsburgh’s 32 shots en route to victory. In his L/3 games, he has only allowed three goals. More performances like that one should see the Wings to their second straight Stanley Cup.

We were bitten by playing the ‘over’ in Game 1, but both teams were running at a breakneck pace for a lot of the game. Expect to see over 60 combined shots taken once again tonight. Fleury will likely give up his three. The question is whether Osgood will as well. He won’t keep the superstars of the Penguins down this entire series.