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DETROIT, June 12 (UPI) -- Maxime Talbot scored twice and Marc-Andre Fleury's late-game save Friday nailed down the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup clinching 2-1 win over the Red Wings.
Fleury -- who posted 22 saves for the Penguins -- kept Red Wings' captain Nicklas Lidstrom's shot out of the goal in the game's closing seconds to give Pittsburgh its third Stanley Cup title. The Penguins won the cup in 1991 and again in 1992.
Winning on Detroit's home ice, the Pens denied the Red Wings an opportunity to become the first back-to-back Stanley Cups champion since the Wings turned the trick in 1997 and 1998.
Pittsburgh won the championship series in seven games -- avenging last season's six-game loss in the finals to Detroit. It was the 15h time the final series went seven games, and just the third time the team with home-ice advantage has lost.
The Penguins' Evgeni Malkin was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs.
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