Morning Dump 6/5

Well, it was a great day yesterday again for Pittsburgh sports.

- I'll again cheat and link to Seth at the P-G's general collection of links for the hockey game.

There are a couple of note though to delve into.

- One that stands out is Cook writing that the Wings really need Datsyuk back to win the Cup. Sure, he's a finalist for the MVP, but he's missed 7 games now. How rusty is he gonna be? What shape is he gonna be in? Does a 75% Datsyuk help or hinder? It's a big subplot going forward.

- We can't mention the game without 3 major items:

1. Staal's short-handed goal not only turned the game around, but also may have turned around the series for the Pens. It was great karma since just before that, Malkin had a mini breakaway and was hooked without a call.

2. Crosby was only gonna be held off the goal sheet for so long, but sheesh what a pass he fed to Kennedy.

3. Malkin, Malkin, Malkin. What more can you say?

- There's also lots of talk about Detroit's infighting between themselves and looking tired (which is a major subplot as well at this point). Orpik mentioned it in his postgame interview, and the tiredness is mentioned by the Canadian Press here, ESPN here, and lastly Yahoo sums it up nicely here.

"All that chasing and nudging left Zetterberg bent over at the end of Game 4, the coming off-day needed more than ever."

-Lastly, what's a Pens' game recap without the Pensblog's insight. Well done. Any blog that mentions Hacksaw Jim Duggan as much as they do if just fine by me.

- Lange's calls, classic.

- Vegas Jesus recapped the Pirates' game already from yesterday, I thought it was interesting to see Smizik flip flop already on the trade.

- One more trade take from the Beaver County times. "Knee-jerk reaction" is a good way to describe most of the Pirates fans.