If the adage is true that you must win the odd games in a seven-game series, the Pittsburgh Penguins just went a long way towards resurrecting their drive for a third Stanley Cup Wednesday night by finally scoring in the 2008 Finals Series. They defeated the Detroit Red Wings on their home ice in game three, the first game in the NHL finals there since 1992. Having been shut out unmercifully in games one and two in Detroit, the Penguins asserted themselves on offense in game three, getting through the dominant Red Wing goalie Chris Osgood three times. Of course, any illusions that Detroit would go away quietly with Pittsburgh reborn were soon shattered in the middle of game three. In the first period and beginning of the second, Penguins' captain and star 20-year-old Sidney Crosby pushed across his first goal of the finals by scoring his fifth and sixth overall goals in these playoffs for a 2-0 lead. Alas, Detroit squeezed a goal in past Pittsburgh?s 23-year-old phenom goalie Marc-Andre Fleury late in the second, bringing them right back into the game. In the NHL playoffs, very often the third period is when games are won and lost and when pressure overcomes youthful teams like the Penguins. They responded by scoring midway through the period for a 3-1 lead, but with about six minutes remaining in the game, Detroit scored that all-important lead-closing goal. For a young team, a 3-2 lead is no lead at all, but Fleury responded especially well, making crucial saves late in the game and holding his team together for the victory. For certain, the Penguins are back in the series, when all hope looked lost after the first two games in Detroit. Getting through against Osgood, three times no less, is a huge achievement as the 35-year-old Detroit goalie, even after the game, sports a 1.48 goals-against-average and a 12-3 record in the 2008 playoffs, all told. How good has Osgood been? He?s started every game in the playoffs, leaving formidable second goalie Dominik Hasek, who himself had a miracle season at age 43. How good was Hasek this year? His GAA was only slightly higher than Osgood?s 2.14 to 2.09, and the two evenly split Detroit?s amazing 54 wins at 27 apiece. After the stirring comeback by the Penguins in game three, there are now four games remaining ? two in Pittsburgh (games four and six) and two in Detroit (games five and seven). Should the Penguins repeat their game three success in game four Saturday night on their home ice, they will have to win at least one in Detroit to prevail. With the 1991 and 1992 Cup victories in their distant past, this is a new game for these young Penguins although anything is possible. The dynamo that is the Detroit Red Wings (Cup victories in 1997, 1998, and 2002), will present as tough a challenge as any. Whether extreme youth is a team factor will become evident in the next several games.