Penguins top Red Wings in Game 7, win Stanley Cup (图)

without Sidney Crosby for most of the game, the skilled and youthful Pittsburgh Penguins could not be kept from the Stanley Cup.

Maxime Talbot scored two goals and Marc-Andre Fleury made huge saves during a desperate third-period barrage as the Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in Friday\'s gripping Game 7 to win the Cup.

It was so hard watching the clock tick down for the third period, said Crosby, who played one short shift after leaving the game early in the second period with a knee injury. But everything it took to win, we did it -- blocking shots, great goaltending, having different guys step up.

The Penguins won a third Cup in their history and their first since capturing back-to-back championships in 1991 and 1992.

It was a first for the Penguins\' new wave of young talent, led by Crosby, Fleury, Evgeni Malkin, Jordan Staal and others, who are expected to be an NHL power for years to come.

We\'ll have a great core for the next couple of years and I can see great things for this team in the future, but right now, I\'m going to enjoy this, Talbot said.

The Penguins did it with consecutive 2-1 victories after they were left reeling by a 5-0 loss in Game 5 in Detroit a week ago. But Fleury bounced back from being chased from that game with two exceptional outings while the older, injury-riddled Red Wings faltered.

Crosby played just one shift in the third period after a knee injury early in the second period on a hit by Red Wings forward Johan Franzen. But nothing could prevent the 21-year-old from rushing onto the ice to join the celebration, or from hoisting the Cup, one year after suffering a heartbreaking loss to Detroit in the final.