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Reason to Root for Detroit: Classic Western Finals

Two of the Original Six knuckling up? Super fun.

by Ted Bauer

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"Celebrate, good times, come on --- Detroit is good, we're in real trouble"

Straight up: we threw down 15 dollars on the Canucks to win the Stanley Cup during a jaunt to Vegas two and a half weeks ago, so this morning is a little rough. What makes it better? If the Red Wings win tonight, we have a classic Western Finals pitting two Original Six teams against each other. Would be great, classic hockey history fun. And hey, if you ever stumble across this website and think "man, that site is dumb," well, you're wrong. We ran this about the Blackhawks before the season began; that's what you call "smartly looking ahead."


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