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Red Wings prove they’re still winners

Phil Pritchard, keeper of the Stanley Cup, arrives at his hotel in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, June 3, 2008. The Stanley Cup travels in the black case at the bottom of Pritchard's luggage. The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings meet Wednesday in Game 6 of the NHL finals.

From Bowman to Babcock, Yzerman to Lidstrom, the Detroit Red Wings have this Stanley Cup thing all figured out. Free market spending or salary cap shackles, it doesn’t matter in Hockeytown, where the Cup will reside for the fourth time in 11 seasons. “Well, the news is since the cap world, everybody’s good,” coach Mike Babcock said Wednesday night after the Red Wings eliminated the Pittsburgh…

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