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The Penguins' charter flight had just departed Detroit's airport in the early morning hours after they won the Stanley Cup on June 12 when general manager Ray Shero first heard the question. "Guys started asking right away, 'Are we going to the White House?' I was, like, 'Yeah, I think so,'" Shero said Friday. "It's not something you think about before you win, and it's not something you want to do just once." No strangers to the District of Columbia - they won Games 5 and 7 of a second-round playoff series at Washington's Verizon Center in the spring -...

Game 7 of the Final is hockey's ultimate contest For a hockey fan, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final is like waiting for Christmas: It seems like the big day takes forever to get there, but when it does, it's well worth the wait. Of course, Christmas comes just once a year. A Final series that goes the maximum seven games comes along infrequently. Since the NHL expanded from the Original Six teams in 1967, the championship round has gone the distance just eight times, including this year's Final between Detroit and Pittsburgh. If the Stanley Cup Final is...

i couldnt find a text version of the story, but you can view the video of it, the gist of it is that detroit redwings fans cant purchase tickets for game's 3 and 4 of the stanley cup finals.