I'll preface my post by saying that I am a life long michigan resident, hockey fan, and hockey player (never made it past juniors).
The first two games the wings handily took care of the pens, and the wings were as flat as I've seen them in a while. Even Mickey Redmond on the post game call took notice that they looked out of gas in the 3rd period of game 2.
Yesterday when the press showed up at the red wings skate in pitt, they were stunned to see only six players on the ice. Is this a coach thats become arrogant and complacent, or rather is this a coach that knows the value of rest for his players? Either way I think you will see a very motivated and spirited penguins team tonight, and you will quickly see them realize that they are sharing the surface with the best team in all of professional sport and once again they will come up short.
My prediction is that the wings/pens split in pitt and come back to joe louis to close it out in 5 games. Maybe next time Malkin grows a pair and hauls off to hit a wings player with his stick the refs will let it roll.