CASPER
New member
Malkin joins Mario as Conn Smythe winner
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DETROIT (AP)—Mario Lemieux. Evgeni Malkin(notes).
Three Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup championship teams. Two Penguins who won the Conn Smythe Trophy.
The current Penguins are popularly viewed as Sidney Crosby’s(notes) team, but the player they got as a runner-up prize in the 2004 draft when they didn’t get Alex Ovechkin turned out pretty good, too.
Malkin didn’t score a goal in the last three games of the finals, but he led all playoff scorers with 36 points—the most since the Kings’ Wayne Gretzky had 40 in 1993—and his pass set up the first of Max Talbot’s(notes) two goals Friday night as the Penguins beat Detroit 2-1 in Game 7.
Malkin was in tears as he realized what he accomplished a year after doing little offensively with one goal and two assists as the Penguins lost to Detroit in six games. This time, he had two goals, six assists, a big smile and a trophy to lift.
“Any time you have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on a team, you have a chance,” Lemieux, now a co-owner, said after taking a brief victory lap with the Stanley Cup, just as he did as a player in 1991 and 1992 when he won the Conn Smythe both times.
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DETROIT (AP)—Mario Lemieux. Evgeni Malkin(notes).
Three Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup championship teams. Two Penguins who won the Conn Smythe Trophy.
The current Penguins are popularly viewed as Sidney Crosby’s(notes) team, but the player they got as a runner-up prize in the 2004 draft when they didn’t get Alex Ovechkin turned out pretty good, too.
Malkin didn’t score a goal in the last three games of the finals, but he led all playoff scorers with 36 points—the most since the Kings’ Wayne Gretzky had 40 in 1993—and his pass set up the first of Max Talbot’s(notes) two goals Friday night as the Penguins beat Detroit 2-1 in Game 7.
Malkin was in tears as he realized what he accomplished a year after doing little offensively with one goal and two assists as the Penguins lost to Detroit in six games. This time, he had two goals, six assists, a big smile and a trophy to lift.
“Any time you have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin on a team, you have a chance,” Lemieux, now a co-owner, said after taking a brief victory lap with the Stanley Cup, just as he did as a player in 1991 and 1992 when he won the Conn Smythe both times.