Look at that hearty chin sweater, Crosby.  Men grow beards.  Men win the Stanley Cup.  Zetterberg is getting it done off the ice as well, or possibly on, depending how freaky and Swedish he's feeling.

Red Wings 3-1 Penguins: Detroit comprehensively beat Pittsburgh again, without their best player, to take a 2-0 lead in the Stanley Cup Finals.  Forty-one of the 44 teams with a 2-0 finals’ lead have won the Cup.

It was the first Finals’ game on a consecutive night since 1955 - orchestrated to avoid an NBC conflict with Conan’s first Tonight Show - which caused some controversy.  Though, the NHL should trade that for having the finals on a network casual fans can find.  It should have benefitted the Penguins more than Detroit.

Former MSU star and Michigan native Justin Abdelkader, 22, scored his second goal of this Stanley Cup Finals.  Those are the only two goals of his career.  He has played just four regular season games.  Abdelkader has also set a record for least Arabic-looking person with an Arabic last name.

Things got chippy toward the end, thanks to a frustrated Evgeni Malkin.  Malkin timidly sucker-punched Henrik Zetterberg and swung around at him with stick in hand.  Zetterberg dispensed with the gloves and took him to the ground.  The referees than bailed Malkin out like LeBron James after an ill-considered lunge toward the basket.  “That’s Evgeni Malkin.”

The NHL lifted what should have been a mandatory suspension for Game 3.

Simply, the Red Wings are inside Pittsburgh’s consciousness right now.  Remnants from last year’s Finals.  Here is the moment last year when it turned.