NHL, NHL team, All team sports informationNow that the NHL team Pittsburgh Penguins are the 2009 Stanley Cup champions, All Team Sports Information looks back on this year’s NHL season and picks out some of the best moments.

1. Playing half of Game 7 without sports star Sidney Crosby, the Penguins hold off defending champs Detroit at home and win the Stanley Cup.
2. The incredible come-from-behind series victory makes Crosby the youngest NHL team captain ever to hoist the Cup.
3. The Pens jump out to a 2-0 lead in Game 6 and force the Redwings to an unexpected Game 7.
4. Crosby and Alex Ovechkin each post a hat trick in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. Ovechkin’s NHL team Washington Capitals edged out the eventual champions 4-3 in that game, but Pittsburgh would come back to win the conference.
5. The Carolina Hurricanes score two goals in the final 1:20 of Game 7 in the Eastern Conference quarterfinals to beat the New Jersey Devils and advance to the conference semi-finals.
6. The NHL team Hurricanes strike again, beating the Boston Bruins in overtime in another Game 7 in the Eastern Conference semi-finals.
7. In the decisive game of the Western Conference semi-finals, the Chicago Blackhawks’ Patrick Kane recorded his first career hat trick to lead his team to victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
8. Evgeni Malkin posts his first playoff hat trick against the Hurricanes in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.
9. The eighth-seeded Anaheim Ducks eliminate the number one seed San Jose Sharks in the NHL’s first all-California playoff.
10. 47-year-old legend Chris Chelios of the Redwings rushes the length of the ice and nearly buries a rebounded shot past Chicago’s Cristobal Huet in what could be his last NHL game.