In a Democratic tradition that goes all the way back to the campaign of Harry S. Truman, Senator Barack Obama made an appearance in Hart Plaza right in the heart of Detroit, MI to participate and speak at the Labor Day parade which took place there. Sarah, Mark and I had planned on attending this rally in Hart Plaza to see Sen. Obama speak but because of how late Sarah’s birthday party ran the night before (and because of my tight travel schedule) we were unable to attend. Here are a few pics of Obama in my hometown of Detroit yesterday morning:

Barack Obama cut short a Labor Day speech to an expectant, fired-up crowd at Detroit’s Hart Plaza, offering prayer instead of political punches to acknowledge concerns about Hurricane Gustav. “There is a time to argue politics, and there’s a time to come together as Americans,” he said in deference to distressed and evacuated gulf coast residents and a storm that threatened great damage but lost power as it slammed into Louisiana. In his first Detroit appearance as the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama surely disappointed many in the crowd — estimated at more than 20,000 in Hart Plaza and another 10,000 just outside along Jefferson Avenue — with less than 10 minutes of remarks, although people appeared forgiving. Many had waited hours in lines that snaked around buildings to see Obama after the annual Labor Day parade. U.S. Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan stirred their anticipation in speaking to the crowd before Obama arrived, comparing the event with John F. Kennedy’s Labor Day speech in Detroit during the presidential campaign of 1960. Obama apologized for his brevity and urged compassion and togetherness. He held a moment of silent prayer and asked for donations to the Red Cross. “I want all of us to remember that when we show solidarity with those folks in Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas and Alabama, that we are expressing the true spirit of the labor movement. Because the idea behind the labor movement is that you don’t walk alone, you’re not by yourself. “Each of us are vulnerable by ourselves. … But when we are unified, we come together in a more perfect union.” Still, Obama managed to serve up pro-labor sentiments, telling the crowd that he supports federal legislation that would make it easier for workers to unionize. In a lighter moment, he sang a few bars of Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools,” while the singer looked on from the crowd. “I’m a labor guy, I believe in the labor movement,” Obama said. “It’s important to have a president who doesn’t choke on the word union. I believe we need a Department of Labor that believes in labor.”

Never fear y’all, I am not planning on regular political coverage, I just really wanted to go to this rally and would’ve made it downtown to Hart Plaza had Sarah’s birthday fun ended at a reasonable hour ;) After the jump, check out a short video of Sen. Obama singing Chain of Fools to the Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, who was in attendance at yesterday’s Detroit rally …

Very sad and shameful news out of my beloved Detroit, Michigan today. The current mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, has been sentenced to serve one night in jail after it was revealed that Kilpatrick defied the terms of his bond after being charged with perjury and obstruction of justice (the latest in a long list of crimes and misdemeanors). Even tho I have been away from the Detroit Metro area for a couple of years now, I am well aware of Kilpatrick‘s shady biz and have never been a fan of his tactics or his leadership of the city. As embarrassingly shameful as it is, I am very glad to know that the judge in this case deemed it appropriate to lock up the sitting mayor and force him to endure a night in jail as part of his punishment. Here are a couple pics from court today, the second shows Kwame Kilpatrick being led away to a holding area before being transferred to his awaiting jail cell:

Judge Ronald Giles just sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail moments after the mayor pleaded for forgiveness and admitted he made an unauthorized trip to Windsor on city business. As of noon Kilpatrick was still at 36th District Court being processed for transfer to Wayne County Jail. “The first day you were before me, I thought I made it clear to you that this court comes first in everything,” Giles said. “I do understand that you’re under…pressure…but I have to look at how the system should be run and perceived by the public. At the beginning of this case you were given every privilege that could be given to you with regard to travel,” Giles said, adding that he later imposed restrictions after learning Kilpatrick had been abusing his privileges. “At that time I made it perfectly clear … don’t come back … ,” he said. Giles revoked Kilpatrick’s $75,000 10% bond and ordered him jailed … Giles’ jailing of Kilpatrick leaves no clear line of authority in who is running the city because there currently is no deputy mayor. Anthony Adams has temporarily relinquished his deputy mayor duties to be the interim director of the Water and Sewerage Department, and Kilpatrick said at the time of that announcement that chief of staff Kandia Milton and chief operating officer Cathy Square would divide up Adams’ deputy mayor duties. The charter provides that in the “absence or temporary disability” of the mayor that the deputy mayor is the acting mayor. Giles’ comments came after Kilpatrick told the judge he had been living under incredible pressure for the past 7 months. “I don’t believe that there is a person that’s ever been through this process that respects it more than I do,” Kilpatrick said, referring to the legal proceedings stemming from the eight felonies ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice filed against him in March. “Last week was a tremendous wake-up call to me,” he said, referring to Giles’ rebuke last month after he allegedly assaulted law enforcement officials trying to serve a subpoena … Kilpatrick admitted violating the terms of his bond by traveling to Windsor without notifying the court. He said he was sorry. “My life has been revolutionarily transformed and it’s transforming in front of the eye of these media people who don’t know me at all,” he said, referring to what he called intense scrutiny. “Your honor, I ask for your forgiveness…it will never happen again.” He said his sons were watching these proceedings because he asked them to. “I told them that I did something wrong,” he said. Kilpatrick further said he was not “frolicking” in Windsor but trying to make a deal that would let him avoid laying off more than a thousand city workers. “I apologize to the citizens as well, but mostly to you. It was never an affront to you,” he said of the trip. Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Robert Moran said the mayor’s pleas rung hollow. “Now that he’s caught, he’s taking responsibility…he thought he got away with it,” Moran said.

I have always contended that Kwame Kilpatrick is a criminal and now we have the bona fide proof … a sitting mayor has been sent to jail! I really hope this serves as the FINAL WAKE UP CALL to the people of Detroit that Kilpatrick is not fit to serve as mayor of the city I love so much. I will be very surprised if he isn’t impeached and removed from office, it should’ve happened a long time ago. His laundry list of crimes and malfeasance is too long to list here … as sad as I am for the way this makes Detroit look I am very happy that someone finally held Kilpatrick accountable for something. He is an embarrassment and I hope this will be the final end of him. After the jump, watch video of Kilpatrick‘s pitiful apology to the court …

Sad news out of Detroit, the demolition project to tear down the original Tiger Stadium has gotten underway. Despite the fact that a group is working feverishly to save a portion of the stadium, the bulldozers and wrecking balls have already started demolishing the famed park on the corner of Michigan Ave. and Trumball. Here are a few pics of the partially demolished stadium:

It’s a fight to the last out on whether a piece of Tiger Stadium will be saved. On Tuesday morning, as crews continued to demolish the north end of the ballpark, the board of the city’s Economic Development Corp. recommended that the entire stadium be torn down. Later in the day, the nonprofit Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy said it secured $200,000 for its preservation efforts, after The Detroit News broke the story online. The conservancy vowed to keep fighting, setting up a crucial vote at the Detroit City Council, which has final approval. The city’s EDC, a branch of the quasi-public Detroit Economic Growth Corp., is recommending to City Council that all of iconic stadium at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Trumbull Street be razed and sold for scrap. EDC officials say the conservancy group has failed to come up with a solid plan to raise between $12 million and $15 million to preserve the baseball diamond, 3,000 seats and build a museum that would house Hall of Fame Broadcaster Ernie Harwell’s collection of sports memorabilia, EDC officials stated Tuesday. “Unfortunately the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy has not been able to demonstrate any commitments to funding for construction and operation or a feasible plan to obtain such commitments,” states an EDC letter sent to the City Council. The conservancy group has missed key financial deadlines during the past year, the letter points out. “There is no funding in place to take care of the building physically, or for operations,” said Scott Veldhuis, project manager of the DEGC. The conservancy also has failed to show the potential for raising money for operations at the preserved portion of the stadium, officials said. The hold-up is costing the city money, since it’s cheaper to demolish the entire stadium than to carefully dismantle it around a portion that must be retained, the letter to City Council says. The EDC wants the council to vote before its July 29 recess, which lasts until Sept. 8. “No, we don’t have the construction funding. No, we don’t have the operating budget. We are still working on that,” said S. Gary Spicer, Harwell’s attorney, and a board member of the conservancy group. But the group said it raised $200,000 from two foundations and a private donor on Tuesday after The News broke the story on the EDC recommendation to totally demolish the stadium. Harwell said the conservancy hopes to raise $400,000 in the next few days and prove that it has another $2 million secured for the first phase of the project. “It’s a sacred place and we’re going to do everything we can,” Harwell said Tuesday afternoon. But at least one council member is ready to approve the EDC’s recommendation. “Tear the thing down,” said Barbara-Rose Collins, chairwoman of the city’s planning and development committee. The hulking stadium is hurting future development in the area, she said. “There’s s no purpose you could use it for except a Dracula movie.”

This is very sad. I wasn’t aware that the demolition project had gotten underway last week … this is such sad news. I really hope that the group can raise the money to save a portion of the stadium … it’d be heartbreaking to lose it all.

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Jack White, of the White Stripes and The Raconteurs, has penned a poem for his hometown of Detroit, MI and passed it along to The Detroit Free Press for publication. Over the years, Jack has been an ardent supporter of Detroit Rock City so it should come as no surprise that he would take the time to write such a lovely poem for his hometown. Here is a pic of Jack and Meg White standing in front of the famed Hotel Yorba near downtown Detroit and the full text of his poem entitled Courageous Dream’s Concern:

I have driven slow,
three miles an hour or so,
through Highland Park, Heidelberg, and the
Cass Corridor.
I’ve hopped on the Michigan,
and transferred to the Woodward,
and heard the good word blaring from an
a.m. radio.
I love the worn-through tracks of trolley
trains breaking through their
concrete vaults,
As I ride the Fort Street or the Baker,
just making my way home.

I sneak through an iron gate, and fish
rock bass out of the strait,
watching the mail boat with
its tugboat gait,
hauling words I’ll never know.
The water letter carrier,
bringing prose to lonely sailors,
treading the big lakes with their trailers,
floats in blue green chopping waters,
above long-lost sunken failures,
awaiting exhumation iron whalers,
holding gold we’ll never know.

I’ve slid on Belle Isle,
and rowed inside of it for miles.
Seeing white deer running alongside
While I glide, in a canoe.
I’ve walked down Caniff holding a glass
Atlas root beer bottle in my hands
And I’ve entered closets of coney islands
early in the morning too.
I’ve taken malt from Stroh’s and Sanders,
felt the black powder of abandoned
embers,
And smelled the sawdust from wood cut
to rehabilitate the fallen edifice.
I’ve walked to the rhythm of mariachis,
down junctions and back alleys,
Breathing fresh-baked fumes of culture
nurtured of the Latin and the
Middle East.
I’ve fallen down on public ice,
and skated in my own delight,
and slid again on metal crutches
into trafficked avenues.

Three motors moved us forward,
Leaving smaller engines to wither,
the aluminum, and torpedo,
Monuments to unclaimed dreaming.
Foundry’s piston tempest captured,
Forward pushing workers raptured,
Frescoed families strife fractured,
Encased by factory’s glass ceiling.

Detroit, you hold what one’s been seeking,
Holding off the coward-armies weakling,
Always rising from the ashes
not returning to the earth.

I so love your heart that burns
That in your people’s body yearns
To perpetuate,
and permeate,
the lonely dream that does encapsulate,
Your spirit, that God insulates,
With courageous dream’s concern.

Jack tells the Free Press that he wrote the poem to answer his critics who claim he has lost respect for the city. In various interviews, Jack White was quoted as saying some not-so-nice things about the evolution of the music scene in Detroit (interviews he gave after he moved away from Detroit in 2006) which some people took to mean that he had ill-feelings towards the city as a whole. In an effort to express his “feelings about the city itself, and how strong [he] believes it to be”, Jack took pen to paper and composed this poem. Personally, I think it’s an amazing poem which gives the reader a very good feel for the city. Detroiters especially can appreciate all the places that Jack mentions and I’m sure they can identify with his descriptions of those places. I simply had to post this poem so that as many people as possible can read it and hopefully get a better understanding of the city that I love so much. Detroit is my home too and I’m glad that Jack White took the time to tell the world how amazing the city really is … in his own words.

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Last night was my first full night out on the town here in Detroit so I met up with Tara at Sarah and Mark’s place and we all made our way out to Royal Oak, MI for a sumptuous dinner at Little Tree. Because we all were ravenously hungry, we ordered a bit too much sushi for the table … and, strangely enough, that didn’t stop us from eating pretty much all of it. After we had fully supped on the delish treats at Little Tree, we made our way over to Fifth Avenue to celebrate with our friend Reggie for his birthday. In celebration, Reggie Smith and the After Party played a 3 set show upstairs at Fifth Avenue and had the place rockin’ out. Here are a few pics from last night’s fun:

You know, there may have been a whole lotta bad shoes in that place last night but everyone was having a blast. It was really nice hanging out with Sarah, Tara and Mark last night … it felt like the good ol’ days. Our night hit a bit of a snag when we returned to my parent’s Navigator and found the battery completely dead. Someone, who shall remain nameless, left the headlights on and killed the battery. So because Mark accidentally killed the car, we adeptly figured out (with his friend Joe) how to get it up and running again. There were cables and sparks and a bit of cursing but they got the job done in pretty good time.

This afternoon, I’m off to hang out with Tracey and Zakiya … not sure what we’re doing but maybe some shopping? Maybe a movie? The sky’s the limit ;) It’ll be great to see them both … it’s been far too long.

Pink reader Natalie gave me the head’s up that the Washington Post published a great little write-up on Detroit, MI in yesterday’s Travel section of their newspaper. Rather than following the herd that seems to love bashing Detroit Rock City (many times without even bothering to pay the city a visit), the Washington Post instead writes up a charming little review of the town I love so, painting a picture of the city that is so dead-on that I can’t wait to share it with all y’all:

I saw it first by night. A metropolis unveiled in viewfinder snapshots through the smudged windows of an elevated train. Gothic towers crowded close, proud detail etched on gray stone. A beaming stadium full of red-capped baseball fans, its front side left open as if to console the devoted others it couldn’t quite hold. A neon neighborhood of revelers, trying their luck with the cards and with each other. A river that bounced fractured glints of the city back toward the heavens. It was beguilingly authentic — gritty and romantic — and it was decided: I would side with Mary. Mary, the smiling lady of the hotel lobby, not Alexandro, the cab driver who brought me to her. “Is this your first time in Detroit?” Mary inquired. “You’re going to love it! It’s just like Paris.” Minutes earlier Alexandro laughed incredulously when I told him what I’d come here to find. “Happiness?” he scoffed. “I can’t really see it. Everybody’s just so miserable.” Which is what Forbes magazine said, too; the Most Miserable City in America, it claimed in a report earlier this year. “Imagine living in a city with the country’s highest rate for violent crime and the second-highest unemployment rate,” the article proposes, by way of introduction. But after riding the looping downtown train — slickly named the People Mover — and stepping into the Greektown section of the city, where I was met by saxophones singing from opposite corners and a scene that looked like the quaint, Hollywood version of a 1940s gambling town, it was over … I could be happy here. I already was.

You simply must read the rest of Ellen McCarthy‘s 5-page piece on Detroit … she talks at length about the places she visited and the people she met while in Detroit. She really does Detroit very proud, which is a nice change of pace. It gets very frustrating when people continue to bash the city I love so much. Of course there are problems in Detroit but there are problems everywhere. Detroit is my home and I love it. And I love Ms. McCarthy for writing such a lovely piece on my city :)

I should also note that Pink reader Natalie also sends along the Washington Post piece on Hamburg, Germany — her home town — which is featured in the same Travel section of yesterday’s paper (she sent in both because she was born in Hamburg and her son was born in Detroit). After reading that piece, I’m reading to get my buns to Germany for a great vacay as well ;)

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The Detroit Red Wings returned home to Detroit Rock City as heroes today as the city turned out in huge numbers to welcome the boys back to town. Here are a few photos from the Red Wings Stanley Cup Championship Parade which took place in Downtown Detroit earlier today:

They cheered. They chanted. They sounded air horns. If they could have, they would have hoisted the Red Wings upon their shoulders and carried them down Woodward Avenue themselves. This was love, hockey style, as hundreds of thousands of fans jammed downtown Detroit Friday to pay homage to their crooked-smile heroes. They lined Woodward, seven deep at some spots, and mounted trees and utility poles to watch a victory parade for the Wings’ winning of the Stanley Cup. “It’s nice to feel all the spirit and optimism,” said Steve Aller, who ventured here from Jackson. Residents took off from school and work to watch the parade and a rally at Hart Plaza on a sun-splashed afternoon where temperatures reached the 90s. The relentless heat did little to quell the enthusiasm of the raucous throng decked in the team colors of red and white. Because the Wings had clinched the championship in Pittsburgh, this was their first chance to parade it in front of fans. Homecoming was never so sweet. “I’m here to support the Red Wings,” said Kyle Walsh of Sterling Heights. “This is our team and this is how we do it in Detroit.” Traveling vendors sold everything from pins to pennants, programs to player cards. But many fans brought their own props. They came with Wing flags, aluminum foil Stanley Cups, even Lindstrom on a stick. To clarify, it was a life-sized photo of team captain Nick Lidstrom mounted on a pole. Signs were everywhere. “Skipping school to see the Cup: Priceless.” “Be happy Hudler penalties forgiven,” a reference to mistakes by center Jiri Hudler. Another poster thanked the Wings in six languages, English, French, Swedish, Finnish, Russian and Czechoslovakian, one for each nationality represented by the worldly team. “I wouldn’t think of missing this,” said sign-owner Carol Atchison, 54, an elementary school worker from Southgate. With so much love in the air, it was only natural that marriage proposals would follow. Team heart throbs Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk were running neck-to-neck in marital requests contained on posters. One teenage girl even wrote it on her octopus-balloon hat: “Datsuk Marry Me,” she wrote, misspelling his name. Sorry, ladies. Datsyuk is marriage and Zetterberg has a girlfriend, a Swedish pop star, no less. There was even a real marriage proposal as Andy Jones dropped to a knee in front of the Fox Theater and offered a diamond ring to a stunned Jennifer Carlson. Carlson said yes and, as they say in sports stories, the crowd went wild. “I just can’t believe it,” said Carlson, 37, of Saginaw. “Until now he never said a word about marriage. Jones, 42, said the parade was a perfect time because he and his betrothed are big Wing fans. Thousands more watched a post-parade rally at Hart Plaza, where players thanked them for their support. “We just really, really want to thank people for coming down,” Red Wing center Kris Draper said … The parade began with the Detroit Color Guard and a high school band at Hockeytown Cafe on Woodward Avenue. The color guard was followed by the Zamboni ice-cleaning machine float and the Martin Luther King Jr. High School marching band. Almost two hours before the parade, Kim Moss of Troy pulled a little red wagon full of goods away from her parked car on West Lafayette Boulevard. “This isn’t my first parade, you know,” Moss said proudly. “I’ve got this down to a science.” “Actually, I went light today because of the weather. I’ve got sandwiches, three different kinds. I’ve got the water. I’ve got the Gatorade, the umbrellas, the horns, the cookies, the cards, the seats and the cowbells.” “Usually, we bring a Stanley Cup replica and uniforms and things like that,” said her husband, Mike Moss. “But we went light because of the heat.” Off the couple went down Lafayette pulling their little wagon. Tim Evans said he and his family traveled here from London, England, to celebrate the Wings’ win. He said he and his family were hanging out near a tree at Woodward and Congress, before the parade festivities started. At 10 a.m., two buses carrying the Detroit Red Wings and their families pulled up outside the Hockeytown Cafe. The crowd was very raucous, especially when some of the players, including Mikael Samuelsson, got off the bus. In the background, the crowd chanted, “Let’s go Red Wings! Let’s go Red Wings!” The last person off the first bus carried the Stanley Cup, eliciting a huge cheer from the crowd. The first person off the second bus was hockey legend Gordie Howe, which prompted a chant from the crowd of “Gordie! Gordie!”

Woot! This sounds like it was an amazingly fun affair … I really wish I could’ve been there to take in the celebration in person but I am sending all of my love out to Detroit today. I understand that the massive crowd booed Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick when he took the stage (he is currently facing criminal charges of perjury stemming from testimony he gave during a whistle-blowers trial and is not well liked by anyone in the city right now) which is a bit of shame since it should be a happy occasion but Detroiters tell it like it is and I respect them for it. Again, much, much congrats goes out to the Detroit Red Wings for bringing home the Stanley Cup to Detroit, MI, aka Hockey Town, where it belongs. Big ups, Detroit!!!

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Last night I posted my congrats to the Detroit Red Wings on winning the 2008 Stanley Cup Championship and today I’d like to post photos from the Stanley Cup Trophy presentation ceremony. Here are a few pics of the boys in Red celebrating their victory on the ice seconds after they won the championship and a few pics from the Stanley Cup presentation ceremony:

The Detroit Red Wings, stunned to have lost Game 5 at home in triple overtime, played a perfect road game Wednesday night at Mellon Arena, defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-2, in Game 6 of the 2008 Stanley Cup Final to go wire-to-wire as the best team in the National Hockey League this season. “It’s never easy,” Wings goalie Chris Osgood said. “Toughest trophy in sports to win; it lives for that name every year, that nickname. It was difficult, again. Pittsburgh is a great young team … gave us all we could handle. Probably one of the most difficult series I’ve played in a while. They have a talented team. They held on right to the end again. They kept pushing us still.” Henrik Zetterberg was named the winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the postseason and defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom became the first European captain to lift the Stanley Cup aloft. “It felt great being the first guy to touch the Cup on our team,” the classy Lidstrom said. “Otherwise it felt the same as winning the previous ones, where you’re so happy with the end result. You start training camp with a goal, and that is to win the Stanley Cup. You talk about it throughout the season and the way you have to play to be able to be successful in the playoffs,” Lidstrom said. “And we had a good regular season, and we were able to carry that into the playoffs, too, and so that’s something I’m more proud the way the team played in the playoffs, too. It was a tough loss last year against Anaheim in the conference finals, but most of the guys were on that team last year. And this time around, I thought the team really responded well to some of the adversity we faced throughout the run.” The Wings won the Presidents’ Trophy for the best record in the regular season and proved to be the best team in the postseason as well, utilizing the smart, selfless brand of puck-possession hockey that has become the trademark of coach Mike Babcock. “I probably haven’t come to grips with that,” Babcock said when asked his emotions after winning his first Stanley Cup. “But to be able to share this journey with the guys and to be able to share it with the city of Detroit, and obviously my family, that’s very emotional. And I’m sure I’m going to have some emotional moments in the next week just thinking about it. But to have your name on the Stanley Cup, pretty special. The interesting thing is when you’re playing in the Stanley Cup Final like this and it’s a closeout game, the emotion on your bench is so much more than you’ve had to deal with,” he said. “Getting guys on and off the ice is more difficult, and yet we have a real committed group. Nicklas Lidstrom, in my opinion, is a phenomenal leader and captain with his poise and his skill. And then the support group in (Chris) Chelios and (Kris) Draper. And (Pavel) Datsyuk and (Henrik) Zetterberg, for their leadership. You know, we have a very special team, and we’re thrilled to be in this situation, obviously.” The Wings last won the Cup in 2002, and prior to that in 1997 and ’98.

Again, much love and respect goes out to the Pittsburgh Penguins for giving us an amazingly thrilling NHL Finals … they proved that they are a team to be reckoned with and really made the Wings work for their victory. All my love goes out to my Detroit boys for bringing the Stanley Cup back home to Hockey Town. I can’t wait to get back to Detroit Rock City to celebrate with my peeps. Put your hands up for Detroit, y’all … our lovely city deserves much props today!

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! The Detroit Red Wings have *just* defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals to win this year’s NHL Championship!!!!

Hockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup — again. Using a little Motown magic on the road, the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in 11 seasons Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the finals. The celebration came two nights later than expected. The Penguins forced the series back to Pennsylvania by tying Game 5 with 34.3 seconds left in regulation and winning it shortly before 1 a.m. in Detroit on Petr Sykora’s power-play goal in triple overtime. Undeterred, the Red Wings hit the road and wrapped up their fourth straight series on the road in these playoffs. Detroit is third in NHL history with 11 Stanley Cup titles, trailing fellow Original Six clubs Montreal and Toronto.

Much congrats go to the Penguins for a hard fought finals but ALL MY LURVE goes to my Detroit Red Wings!!! HOLLLLA!!!

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