Who is the pressure on more right now in the Stanley Cup Finals? Is it the Red Wings, the Penguins, or the crew at NBC? If you watched game two of the finals on NBC you would see it is clearly on NBC?

The Red Wings know they only need to win two more games. All the Wings need to do is win the home games in the series to be crowned Stanley Cup Champions once again. They have proven time and time again that they have the depth, poise, and determination to win it all once again. They are also doing it without their Hart Trophy finalist Pavel Datsyuk.

The Penguins have tried almost everything they can to get their game going but neither team has really dominated any of the games thus far. In fact the Penguins have actually out-shot the Red Wings in each of the first two Finals games. Something that has never happened in the regular season or playoffs as long as I can remember. Perhaps this is the biggest indicator that the Penguins still don't have the right fire-power to defeat the might Red Wings.

The Penguins frustrations are being swollen to new levels due to the fact that Detroit is beating them with players they have never even heard of! Justin Abdelkader and Darren Helm have never even scored a regular season goal yet here they are front-and-center scoring goals and making plays in the finals. The Penguins haven't even felt the wrath of the Wings top players yet.

So now the pressure resides clearly on NBC......right? How are they going to anoint Sidney Crosby the man if he can't beat the man? How can NBC get seven games out of this rematch? NBC can't do either of these. Pittsburgh has to do this themselves despite Eddie Olcheck and Pierre McGuire's love affair with whomever the Red Wings are playing. Eddie is a Chicago guy and Pierre is a tool-bag. Put the together and you get the whining about the Marian Hossa non-call of a slashing penalty that precluded the Wings scoring.

The two guys ranted about this so long that listening to the radio with a shorter delay was actually better. These two went on about Hossa's penalty in which Pascal Dupuis' stick was broken, and well, unless there's something in the rulebook about a player's stick breaking because he smacked it against another dude's skate, there's no penalty to be called So shut up about it already!  Here is the proof.  They have instant replay in the booth don't they?

All this does is make victory that much sweeter! I didn't even mention the non-suspension of Penguin Evgeni Malkin who went fake-tough-guy on Henrik Zetterberg only to get tagged back. The league did not suspend him for the instigator penalty he received in the last five minutes of game two because he is a non-threat. What this means is that the NHL thinks he is a man with a vagina and I would agree!

I think now more than ever the NHL needs to do whatever it takes to get back on ESPN and ABC.