{"id":217350,"date":"2026-06-12T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217350\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T11:35:21","slug":"on-this-date-in-penguins-history-pittsburgh-stuns-detroit-to-win-stanley-cup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217350\/","title":{"rendered":"On this date in Penguins history: Pittsburgh stuns Detroit to win Stanley Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventeen years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins stunned the Detroit Red Wings to win the team\u2019s third Stanley Cup title.<\/p>\n

The Penguins were heavy underdogs in the Stanley Cup Final series against the Red Wings, who were the defending champions from the prior year.<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh seemed extremely outmatched during stretches of the series, losing all three road games in Detroit, but winning Games 3, 4, and 6 to force a deciding Game 7 back at Joe Louis Arena.<\/p>\n

Maxime Talbot<\/a> opened the scoring early in the second period of the game, beating goaltender Chris Osgood to make it a 1-0 game.<\/p>\n

Sidney Crosby<\/a> left the game with a knee injury, but the Penguins kept pressing on.<\/p>\n

Maxime Talbot was the star of the game, scoring a second goal near the midway point of the second period, picking a corner against Osgood to make it 2-0 Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

From there, it seemed like the Penguins were hanging on for dear life.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Ericsson<\/a> got the Red Wings on the board and Niklas Kronwall<\/a> nearly tied the game, hitting the crossbar with a shot with just over 2 minutes remaining in the contest.<\/p>\n

With the Penguins hanging on, Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a> made a diving save on Nicklas Lidstrom as time was expiring and as time expired, the Penguins were Stanley Cup champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen years ago today, the Pittsburgh Penguins stunned the Detroit Red Wings to win the team\u2019s third Stanley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95022,5002,38526,95021,95025,36255,95023,95024,73,75,74,1067,8664,65734,12444],"class_list":["post-217350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-chris-osgood","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-joe-louis-arena","tag-jonathan-ericsson","tag-marc-andre-fleury","tag-maxime-talbot","tag-niklas-kronwall","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-stanley-cup","tag-the-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}