What am I going to do for the next 3 and a half months?

I’m calling it. The Stanley Cup Final ends tonight!


You're probably right. Detroit's back home tonight, right?


Right you are. Detroit takes a 3 games to 1 lead back home to the Joe Louis Arena, complete with octopod infestation, ready to seal the deal and win the Stanley Cup in front of the home crowd.


Won't the Penguins have anything to say about it?


Yes and no. The Penguins will probably want to win the game, but given their performance so far, particularly that of Evgeni Malkin, that will be completely insufficient to get the job done. Malkin's played like crap the whole series, totaling one point in the first 4 games of the final. The fact that Sidney Crosby doesn't play on the Penalty Kill limited him to a grand total of 6 minutes of ice time in the first period of Game 4. You can't win playoff hockey games when your two biggest stars (one of which is arguably the greatest player in the world right now) are either underperforming or logging serious minutes on the bench.


So what happens now? You'll be without hockey, and more importantly, without Don Cherry's Suits.


Only 18 days until the NHL Entry draft!