Found June 02, 2008 on Out of Bounds:
No Scotty, No Stevie? No Problem Tonight the Red Wings are poised to win the Stanley Cup. In the bottom line business of professional sports, you can't get much more plain than that. All the money spent, all the number crunching, all the scouting, all the flurry of phone calls on trade deadline day, all the days in training camp -- all of it is designed to be in a position where the team is today. Win a hockey game, on your home ice, and call yourself champions. If it happens -- and it almost certainly will, and likely tonight -- it will be the first Stanley Cup hoisted by a Red Wings team since 1955 that didn't have Steve Yzerman in uniform or Scotty Bowman behind the bench. Both men are still a part of the Red Wings family, of course -- Yzerman as a V.P. and Bowman as a consultant -- but neither of them are making it happen on the ice. It's Nick Lidstrom and Mike Babcock's team now. And so it will be the two of them, more than anyone else, who should get t...
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