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In looking over the Canadian Press sites this morning, I think they’re really missing something here with Petr Sykora’s game five winning goal.

Yes, all of game five was great. But if it had been Mark Messier who had turned to NBC’s Pierre McGuire during the second overtime and had promised to win the game for the Pens, they’d be preparing the bronze for his statue before dawn broke.

But most of what seems to be coming out of Canadia just mentions that Sykora promised his teammates during one of the OT intermissions that he’d win it. That’s great. But saying it to the television reporter sitting in between the benches, who then repeats it to everyone on American national television? That’s a little different. Maybe they just missed it.

I think most people, those watching NBC, laughed at it given how poorly Sykora and his sometimes linemate, Evgeni Malkin were playing. Credit to the CBC for at least catching on to the US version story.

Whatever, I suppose. Moving on. The game was great. Apparently, it was the third longest final game in history. There’s more Wednesday. And there’s plenty more discussion going on in the swamp.