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GDT - Game #38: Red Wings host Blue Jackets (7:00)
by Jeff OKWingnut on 12/26/09 at 09:50 AM ET
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Geebuz, Santa Claus delivered the goods to the Wingnut’s house this year, he even managed to whip up a blizzard for an honest to goodness white Christmas, the first one since I left Michigan. Maybe, or hopefully, he also delivered the goods for the Wings, like the occasional goal to snap the Wings 141 minute futility streak. Perhaps too, Santa also delivered some magic elixir or magic dust (try starting the clip at the 1:30 mark) to cure the Wings injury woes; Wally is coming off IR tonight, and Raffi should be back too. Santa may also have delivered an opponent that is actually having much more significant issues than the Wings, the BJ’s have gone 1-7-3 in Dec, and have lost 8 straight.
The holiday spirits are aligned with the hockey gods, tonight the Wings get BJ’s and a happy ending to their 3 game skid. Game on, bitches.
Standings:
DET: 37 GP, 18-14-5, 41 pts (10 in Conf, 3 in Central - 6 pts behind NSH, 10 pts behind CHI), 98 GF, 99 GA, Last 10 5-4-1, Streak Lost 3
I never, ever, recall, the Wings have allowed more goals than they have scored - never.
CBJ: 38 GP, 14-17-7, 35 pts (14 in Conf, 5 in Central), 106 GF, 134 GA, Last 10 1-7-2, Streak Lost 3
Stats (rank):
DET: .554 point% (16), 2.57 g/g (22), 2.60 ga/g (10), 0.87 5-5 f/a (23), 18.0 pp (19), 81.0 pk (14), 33.2 s/g (3), 28.2 sa/g (8), 52.1 fo% (5).
CBJ: .461 point% (27), 2.74 g/g (16), 3.34 ga/g (28), 0.70 5-5 f/a (29), 22.6 pp (4), 80.4 pk (16), 29.9 s/g (15), 30.4 sa/g (17), 51.0 fo% (10).
Player Stats:
DET Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI
L Henrik Zetterberg 34 10 22 32 5 19:51
C Pavel Datsyuk 35 8 20 28 5 20:27
R Todd Bertuzzi 37 10 11 21 -5 16:42
L Tomas Holmstrom 37 13 6 19 1 16:05
R Dan Cleary 30 7 9 16 -8 18:22
D Brian Rafalski 33 2 12 14 6 23:53
D Nicklas Lidstrom 37 1 12 13 7 25:03
D Niklas Kronwall 21 5 8 13 3 21:18
C Kris Draper 36 6 6 12 4 12:45
D Jonathan Ericsson 31 3 7 10 -7 18:24
R Patrick Eaves 27 4 6 10 6 13:50
D Brad Stuart 37 2 6 8 -5 23:35
C Darren Helm 30 3 5 8 -1 14:42
C Jason Williams 15 2 5 7 -5 15:38
L Drew Miller 35 4 3 7 2 12:00
C Valtteri Filppula 11 2 4 6 -6 17:32
D Brett Lebda 34 1 5 6 -5 14:50
L Justin Abdelkader 34 3 3 6 -6 10:52
L Ville Leino 34 3 3 6 -8 14:04
L Kirk Maltby 29 3 2 5 1 9:57
C Johan Franzen 3 1 1 2 0 18:41
L Brad May 26 0 1 1 -3 7:19
D Derek Meech 21 1 0 1 -4 12:04
C Kris Newbury 4 1 0 1 1 8:41
D Doug Janik 5 0 0 0 -1 14:25
C Mattias Ritola 1 0 0 0 0 7:48
D Jakub Kindl 3 0 0 0 -2 10:49
DET Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Jimmy Howard 21, 11-8-1, 2.39, .915
Chris Osgood 18, 7-6-4, 2.72, .901
CBJ Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/-
L Rick Nash 38 19 17 36 -12 21:27
C Antoine Vermette 38 10 18 28 -5 20:07
L Kristian Huselius 34 11 15 26 -9 18:31
C RJ Umberger 38 12 14 26 -13 18:57
R Jakub Voracek 38 8 14 22 -9 15:30
C Derick Brassard 37 5 14 19 -13 14:44
D Anton Stralman 33 4 14 18 -6 20:08
L Jason Chimera 38 8 9 17 -8 14:52
L Raffi Torres 35 10 7 17 -5 13:11
D Fedor Tyutin 38 1 16 17 -9 23:18
D Kris Russell 30 3 7 10 -7 17:45
C Samuel Pahlsson 35 2 6 8 -1 16:19
D Rostislav Klesla 26 2 6 8 -7 20:06
D Mike Commodore 26 0 6 6 -9 19:11
D Jan Hejda 30 1 5 6 -4 21:22
D Mathieu Roy 14 0 5 5 0 16:58 The mendoza line, Roy is the highest scoring BJ (16th) that is not a minus player - -WOW
C Derek MacKenzie 16 1 3 4 4 9:02
D Marc Methot 31 1 3 4 -9 18:28
R Jared Boll 33 3 1 4 3 5:59
R Derek Dorsett 21 1 3 4 2 10:40
L Nikita Filatov 13 2 0 2 0 8:06
L Fredrik Modin 7 0 1 1 -3 13:38
C Andrew Murray 13 0 1 1 -2 9:05
L Alexandre Picard 1 0 0 0 0 10:11
R Mike Blunden 20 0 0 0 1 8:41
L Tom Sestito 1 0 0 0 0 4:58
CBJ Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Mathieu Garon 15, 4-4-2, 2.96, .900
Steve Mason 29, 10-13-5, 3.40, .887
Injury Report:
DET:
Dan Cleary (LW/RW) Separated shoulder (Mid-January)
Brian Rafalski (D) Flu (Day to day)
Jason Williams (RW/C) Broken fibula (Mid-January)
Henrik Zetterberg (C/LW) Separated left shoulder (Early January)
Niklas Kronwall (D) Sprained left MCL (Sidelined indefinitely)
Andreas Lilja (D) Concussion (Sidelined indefinitely)
Valtteri Filppula (C/LW) Broken right wrist (Late December)
Jonathan Ericsson (D) Left knee injury (Sidelined indefinitely)
Johan Franzen (LW/RW) Left knee surgery (Mid-February)
CBJ:
Rostislav Klesla (D) Torn Groin Muscle (Mid-January)
Anton Stralman (D) Illness (Day to day)
Derek Dorsett (RW) Broken hand (Mid-January)
HOT and NOT:
DET: Hot:
No Hot Players Criminee Jeepers, I don’t remember ever typing that before either. YAK.
DET: Not Hot:
Brad Stuart (D) 0 pts in last 4 GP
Jimmy Howard (G) 0-2-0, 3.51, .865 in last 2 GPI
CBJ: Hot:
Antoine Vermette (C/LW) 3 pts in last 3 GP
CBJ: Not Hot:
Kris Russell (D) 0 pts in last 5 GP
Mathieu Garon (G) 0-1-0, 3.63, .851 in last 2 GPI
Steve Mason (G) 0-2-0, 5.74, .829 in last 2 GPI
As bad as the BJ’s are, at least statistically, the Wings are only 6 points ahead of them in the standings; and that is flipping scarry.
From Khan(!) :
Filppula, out since Oct. 29 with a broken right wrist, will return Saturday, when the Red Wings host the Columbus Blue Jackets. . .
Columbus might be the ideal opponent for the offensively challenged Red Wings. The struggling Blue Jackets have the third-worst goals-against average in the NHL (3.34).
Goaltender Steve Mason, last season’s Calder Trophy winner as rookie of the year, ranks 46th in the league in both goals-against average (3.40) and save percentage (.887).
The Red Wings whipped the Blue Jackets 9-1 at Nationwide Arena on Nov. 11. The teams meet again Monday in Columbus.
Eric Duhatschek, Globe and Mail, via George at Snapshots, beating the Fire that Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man drum?? :
Nobody would fire a coach at Christmas, right? Not even the Columbus Blue Jackets, whose bench boss, Ken Hitchcock, was feeling the heat thanks to a dismal December in which the NHL team went 1-7-3 to slip to the bottom of the Western Conference? What ailed the Blue Jackets from the start was goalie Steve Mason’s sophomore slump, in which he was consistently giving up goals early and often, putting his team behind the 8-ball. More recently, the Jackets look like a fragile team, their confidence in shreds, skating as though on eggshells. . .
Finally, from Aaron Portzline, Columbus Dispatch:
The last time the Blue Jackets played the depleted Detroit Red Wings, the Jackets suffered a humiliating 9-1 loss on Nov. 11 in Nationwide Arena, the worst home defeat in franchise history.
Since then, the Red Wings have suffered even more blows—three more defensemen and All-Star center Henrik Zetterberg out because of injuries. . .
The Blue Jackets have their own issues to deal with right now. An eight-game losing streak overall and 10 straight losses on the road have made for a fragile group of players. A 2-11-5 run has threatened to end any hope of playoff contention before the halfway point. . .
But the Wings are still without forwards Dan Cleary, Jason Williams, Johan Franzen and Zetterberg, as well as defensemen Jonathan Ericsson, Niklas Kronwall and Andreas Lilja. Keep in mind that they lost Marian Hossa, Mikael Samuelsson and Jiri Hudler through free agency.
Those losses are a big reason the Red Wings have scored just 37 goals in their past 19 games, five of them shutouts. . .
Blue Jackets coach Ken Hitchcock has been stressing better 5-on-5 play. The Jackets have scored 62 goals at full strength but have allowed 88, the most in the NHL.
All the numbers, stats, cold goalies, return of Wally and Raffi, all say the Wings win tonight and get off the schnide, right, right?
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