It took them six games to do it and it would have been way cooler had they won it at The Joe, but on Wednesday night the Detroit Red Wings stunned a Penguins crowd to finally put an end to the NHL season by winning the 2008 Stanley Cup (by a score of 3-2). This is Detroit’s fourth National Hockey League Cup win in 11 years. They’ve also won the President’s trophy six times and the Clarence Campbell Bowl (as the Western Conference champions) five times.

With the win, Nicklaus Lidstrom became the first European-born and trained captain of an NHL team to hoist the Stanley Cup, while Henrik Zetterberg became only the second European player to win the Conn Smythe trophy as the playoffs MVP. Lidstrom was the first in 2002.

And so Hockeytown, USA lives on. Any guess as to what the odds are on Detroit to win the 2009 Stanley Cup? Pretty good, I would imagine.