EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -Never has the Stanley Cup felt more at home than in the New Jersey swamp.

PITTSBURGH  — The Penguins wouldn't let the Red Wings celebrate with the Stanley Cup, not again. Not in this Game 6 in their arena. Not without going the distance in a finals where home ice means everything and momentum means nothing.

Max Talbot scored two second-period goals and the Penguins overcame the loss of captain Sidney Crosby to beat the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Friday night in Game 7 and win the Stanley Cup.

LOS ANGELES — There was no sugar-coating when the Detroit Red Wings evaluated themselves after another long, hard-fought, grinding game was knocked off the schedule.

RALEIGH, N.C. - This time, the Stanley Cup gets to stay on Tobacco Road. A couple of low-scoring Carolina defensemen put Edmonton's comeback on ice and Cam Ward stopped nearly everything that came his way, giving the Hurricanes their first NHL championship with a 3-1 victory over the Oilers on Monday night.

TAMPA, Fla. - No, Canada. The Stanley Cup not only isn't headed north, the Tampa Bay Lightning are taking it south. Ruslan Fedotenko scored twice, including the critical first goal just as he did in the conference finals, and the resilient Lightning held off the Calgary Flames 2-1 in Game 7 Monday night to win their first Stanley Cup.

While the United States is having trouble rounding up 12 top professional basketball players willing to participate in the upcoming Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, Canada is having no such worries when it comes to selecting their World Cup of Hockey roster — the country's equivalent of a sports knighthood.

DETROIT  — The Detroit Red Wings gave Marc-Andre Fleury flashbacks.

Seventeen ex-Coyotes have accomplished something this season that they never did in Phoenix — advance past the first round of the NHL playoffs.

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Ed Olczyk is out of excuses. Following an offseason marked by wholesale changes, the Penguins bear little resemblance to the woeful product that exited the 2003-04 season with a league-worst 58 points.

John Muckler, who won five Stanley Cups with the Edmonton Oilers in the 1980s and '90s, was hired by the Coyotes as senior adviser to general manager Don Maloney on Tuesday.

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Ed Olczyk is out of excuses. Following an offseason marked by wholesale changes, the Penguins bear little resemblance to the woeful product that exited the 2003-04 season with a league-worst 58 points.

Pittsburgh Penguins coach Ed Olczyk is out of excuses. Following an offseason marked by wholesale changes, the Penguins bear little resemblance to the woeful product that exited the 2003-04 season with a league-worst 58 points.

SAN JOSE -- Claude Lemieux announced his retirement again Wednesday, wrapping up a 21-year NHL career with four Stanley Cups.