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Celebrity musings, sightings and other chatter heading into Saturday's fourth game of the Stanley Cup final:

Newfoundland premier Danny Williams is coming to Detroit for Monday's fifth game. The Red Wings' Daniel Cleary arranged for tickets; the hope is that Williams can be on hand when the first Newfoundland-born player in NHL history finally gets to raise the Stanley Cup.

"It's very big back in Newfoundland," said Cleary. "I've been hearing from a lot of people, more and more each day. That's really great. I can really feel their support. I'm feeding off it."

Fellow Red Wings' defenceman Niklas Kronwall has a connection to the Swedish rock group ABBA; his father, Hasse, who passed away in 1992, toured with the group briefly before meeting his mother and marrying and getting out of the music business. However, Kronwall suggested that his family's ABBA connection was "a little overblown. At some point, he was working with them; I don't know exactly what his position was; he was traveling with them a little." Still, Kronwall counts himself an ABBA fan. "All Swedes are fans of their music; obviously, we don't listen to them as much as back in the day, but I like the music and I think the musical Mamma Mia is great."

There are a surprising number of people with connections to both the Penguins and Red Wings, one of whom is Hall Of Fame defenceman Larry Murphy, who does some broadcasting in Detroit these days, but won his first two Stanley Cups with the Penguins and still has a certain affection for his first club. Colby Armstrong hasn't played for the Red Wings yet, but did play for the Penguins until the deal that sent him and Erik Christianson to Atlanta for Marian Hossa and Pascal Dupuis. Armstrong is here, working for Rogers SportsNet to provide some insight into his former club (he and Sidney Crosby were good friends; there was a thought in some quarters that Crosby would react badly to the deal because it involved a member of his inner circle). Crosby was asked about Armstrong's presence here today and said he hadn't seen him yet. But since Armstrong predicted a big game for him in Game 3, Crosby is all in favor. "I mean, he's a good buddy. Maybe he knows me too well. But that's a good call on his part."

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