Wait...the Pittsburgh Penguins didn't Win the Stanley Cup?

Could have fooled me...

Let me start off by saying I'm not a Red Wings fan, nor a Penguins fan, but I do admit I was rooting hard for the Wings to pull a victory out of this. I watched every game and every minute of the entire series, and when Game six had ended I jumped out of my chair cheering and clapping.

I believed, and still do, that the NHL was rooting hard for the Penguins to win the Cup because they needed their "face" of the NHL, Sidney Crosby, to win so they can further shove pictures of him holding the Cup down our throats. Unfortunately for them, that didn't happen.

So, I wake up this morning after a late night of watching hockey and go on to NHL.Com as I do every morning. I was more then expecting to see articles and pictures all over the place about the Red Wings winning the Cup, but to my disgust, there wasn't much at all. The main article wasn't even about the Championship team! Rather then reading "Detroit Red Wings Capture Eleventh Stanley Cup", I got to see "Pittsburgh Penguins: So Close, yet so far." Was this a joke? Apparently not.

But it gets worse...

Further down the page near the frozen moment and located in the game recap was a picture from the great tradition of shaking hands. It was a snapshot of Crosby and Wings' MVP Henrik Zetterberg shaking hands. Rather then the caption saying "Sidney Crosby shakes hands with MVP Henrik Zetterberg", it read, "In just his third NHL season, Sidney Crosby came close to adding a Stanley Cup a resume that already includes the Art Ross Trophy and the Hart Trophy." You have got to be kidding me! But again, they're not.

Now we move on to the daily NHL poll. I thought a nice question would have been, "Where will the defending Champion Wings finish up next season?". But again, there is no mention of the Cup champs. Rather, the question was "How far will the Eastern Conference champion Pittsburgh Penguins go next season?"

Now, I never liked the Pittsburgh Penguins, because they are a division rival of my team, but I used to have respect for them.

Now with the league constantly shoving Crosby and his team from the Steel city down our throats, they fail to recognize who the better team really is, and it isn't the Penguins.