Stanley Cup Finals
In the US, NBC broadcast the first two and final three games of the Final, while Versus broadcast games three and four. In Canada, all games of the Final were broadcast in English on the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and in French on the cable network RDS.
The CBC featured a new broadcast team calling the series: Jim Hughson and Craig Simpson.
| May 30 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 1–3 | Detroit Red Wings | Joe Louis Arena | Recap | |||
| Ruslan Fedotenko (7) - 18:37 | First period | 13:38 - Brad Stuart (2) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 19:02 - Johan Franzen (11) | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 02:46 - Justin Abdelkader (1) | ||||||
| Marc-Andre Fleury 27 saves / 30 shots | Goalie stats | Chris Osgood 31 saves / 32 shots | ||||||
| May 31 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 1–3 | Detroit Red Wings | Joe Louis Arena | Recap | |||
| Evgeni Malkin (13) - pp - 16:50 | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 04:21 - Jonathan Ericsson (3) 10:29 - Valtteri Filppula (2) |
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| No scoring | Third period | 02:47 - Justin Abdelkader (2) | ||||||
| Marc-Andre Fleury 23 saves / 26 shots | Goalie stats | Chris Osgood 31 saves / 32 shots | ||||||
| June 2 | Detroit Red Wings | 2–4 | Pittsburgh Penguins | Mellon Arena | Recap | |||
| Henrik Zetterberg (10) - 06:19 Johan Franzen (12) - pp - 11:33 |
First period | 04:48 - Maxime Talbot (5) 15:57 - pp - Kris Letang (4) |
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| No scoring | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 10:29 - pp - Sergei Gonchar (3) 19:03 - en - Maxime Talbot (6) |
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| Chris Osgood 17 saves / 20 shots | Goalie stats | Marc-Andre Fleury 27 saves / 29 shots | ||||||
| June 4 | Detroit Red Wings | 2–4 | Pittsburgh Penguins | Mellon Arena | Recap | |||
| Darren Helm (4) - 18:19 | First period | 02:39 - pp - Evgeni Malkin (14) | ||||||
| Brad Stuart (3) - 00:46 | Second period | 08:35 - sh - Jordan Staal (3) 10:34 - Sidney Crosby (15) 14:12 - Tyler Kennedy (4) |
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| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Chris Osgood 27 saves / 31 shots | Goalie stats | Marc-Andre Fleury 37 saves / 39 shots | ||||||
| June 6 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 0–5 | Detroit Red Wings | Joe Louis Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | 13:32 - Daniel Cleary (9) | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 01:44 - Valtteri Filppula (3) 06:11 - pp - Niklas Kronwall (2) 08:26 - pp - Brian Rafalski (3) 15:40 - pp - Henrik Zetterberg (11) |
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| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| Marc-Andre Fleury 16 saves / 21 shots Mathieu Garon 8 saves / 8 shots |
Goalie stats | Chris Osgood 22 saves / 22 shots | ||||||
| June 9 | Detroit Red Wings | 1–2 | Pittsburgh Penguins | Mellon Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 00:51 - Jordan Staal (4) | ||||||
| Kris Draper (1) - 08:01 | Third period | 05:35 - Tyler Kennedy (5) | ||||||
| Chris Osgood 29 saves / 31 shots | Goalie stats | Marc-Andre Fleury 25 saves / 26 shots | ||||||
| June 12 | Pittsburgh Penguins | 2–1 | Detroit Red Wings | Joe Louis Arena | Recap | |||
| No scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| Maxime Talbot (7) - 01:13 Maxime Talbot (8) - 10:07 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 13:53 - Jonathan Ericsson (4) | ||||||
| Marc-Andre Fleury 23 saves / 24 shots | Goalie stats | Chris Osgood 16 saves / 18 shots | ||||||
| Pittsburgh won series 4–3 | |
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