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GDT - Game #40: Red Wings host Avalanche (7:00)

by Jeff OKWingnut on 12/31/09 at 01:24 PM ET
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Game 40, the Wings are one game below .500, and sitting in 10th place, 3 points out of the playoffs. 

Eaves is out with the flu, Leino was sighted leaving the doghouse.  Jimmah is in net.

The Red Wings have been shut out in three of their past four games, and six times in their past 17. They have scored one or no goals in 10 of their past 21 games.

Happy New Year Wings fans.

Standings:

DET:  39 GP,  19-14-6, 44 pts (10 in Conf, 3 in Central - 5 pts behind NSH, 11 pts behind CHI), 100 GF, 101 GA, Last 10 5-4-1, Streak Lost 1

COL:  41 GP, 23-12-6, 52 pts (3 in Conf, 1 in N-West), 123 GF, 118 GA, Last 10 7-3-0, Streak Won 2

Stats (rank):

DET:  .564 point% (17), 2.49 g/g (27), 2.51 ga/g (9),  0.87 5-5 f/a (24), 17.6 pp (16), 82.0 pk (14), 33.1 s/g (3), 28.5 sa/g (9), 52.1 fo% (5).

Geebeezus - - we all know DET cannot score, but 27th?  Only TBL, CAR, and NYI are worse. 

COL:  .634 point% (8), 2.93 g/g (7), 2.76 ga/g (13), 1.14 5-5 f/a (10), 17.6 pp (17), 80.6 pk (16), 25.9 s/g (30), 32.3 sa/g (25), 46.8 fo% (29).

Player Stats:
DET Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/-  ATOI
L Henrik Zetterberg 34 10 22 32 5 19:51
C Pavel Datsyuk 37 8 21 29 6 20:30
R Todd Bertuzzi 39 12 11 23 -4 16:49
L Tomas Holmstrom 39 13 6 19 2 16:04
R Dan Cleary 30 7 9 16 -8 18:22
D Nicklas Lidstrom 39 1 14 15 8 25:19
D Brian Rafalski 35 2 13 15 7 24:03
D Niklas Kronwall 21 5 8 13 3 21:18
C Kris Draper 38 6 6 12 4 12:44
D Jonathan Ericsson 31 3 7 10 -7 18:24
R Patrick Eaves 29 4 6 10 5 13:53
D Brad Stuart 39 2 6 8 -6 23:42
C Darren Helm 32 3 5 8 -1 14:41
C Jason Williams 15 2 5 7 -5 15:38
L Drew Miller 37 4 3 7 1 12:14
C Valtteri Filppula 13 2 4 6 -8 17:36
D Brett Lebda 36 1 5 6 -6 14:59
L Justin Abdelkader 36 3 3 6 -6 10:53
L Ville Leino 35 3 3 6 -9 14:01
L Kirk Maltby 31 3 2 5 1 10:03
C Johan Franzen 3 1 1 2 0 18:41
L Brad May 28 0 1 1 -3 7:22
D Derek Meech 23 1 0 1 -5 12:03
C Kris Newbury 4 1 0 1 1 8:41
D Doug Janik 7 0 0 0 -2 13:24
C Mattias Ritola 2 0 0 0 0 8:44
D Jakub Kindl 3 0 0 0 -2 10:49

DET Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Jimmy Howard 23, 12-8-2, 2.26, .921
Chris Osgood 18,  7-6-4, 2.72, .901

COL Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- 
C Paul Stastny 41 9 30 39 9 21:33
L Wojtek Wolski 41 15 23 38 12 18:54
R Milan Hejduk 34 15 11 26 2 18:51
R Chris Stewart 36 11 14 25 5 14:52
C Matt Duchene 41 11 14 25 -8 17:04
D Kyle Quincey 41 4 15 19 5 24:50
C Ryan O’Reilly 41 5 13 18 9 16:35
R David Jones 23 10 6 16 1 17:55
L TJ Galiardi 31 4 11 15 2 16:48
D John-Michael Liles 28 3 11 14 -3 18:31
D Brett Clark 40 1 12 13 2 19:11
R Darcy Tucker 33 5 6 11 -3 14:03
L Cody McLeod 35 5 6 11 -1 14:15
D Scott Hannan 41 2 8 10 11 22:05
R Marek Svatos 35 6 3 9 -9 12:24
D Ryan Wilson 30 2 7 9 8 15:36
D Kyle Cumiskey 25 3 4 7 1 18:15
C Matt Hendricks 29 4 2 6 -1 8:23
D Adam Foote 36 0 5 5 6 20:14
L Chris Durno 14 2 2 4 5 8:43
C TJ Hensick 7 1 2 3 0 9:26
R Brandon Yip 5 1 1 2 1 8:19
L David Koci 33 1 0 1 -1 3:07
D Tom Preissing 4 0 1 1 -6 13:04
C Philippe Dupuis 4 0 1 1 1 8:14
D Ruslan Salei 1 0 0 0 -1 19:08
R Brian Willsie 4 0 0 0 -1 11:05
C Ryan Stoa 2 0 0 0 -3 11:12
C Justin Mercier 3 0 0 0 0 7:02

COL Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Peter Budaj 10,  4-3-1, 2.22, .927
Craig Anderson 34, 10-9-5, 2.68, .916

Injury Report:
DET:
Dan Cleary (LW/RW) Separated shoulder (Mid-January)
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)
Jonathan Ericsson (D) Left knee injury (Sidelined indefinitely)
Johan Franzen (LW/RW) Left knee surgery (Mid-February)

COL:
Ruslan Salei (D) Back injury (Sidelined indefinitely)
David Jones (RW/LW) Torn left ACL (Remainder of season)

HOT and NOT:
DET: Hot:
Nicklas Lidstrom (D) 2 pts in last 2 GP
Todd Bertuzzi (LW/RW) 10 pts in last 9 GP
Jimmy Howard (G) 1-0-1, 0.97, .971 in last 2 GPI

DET: Not Hot:
Brad Stuart (D) 0 pts in last 6 GP
Brian Rafalski (D) 1 pts in last 4 GP
Tomas Holmstrom (LW/RW) 0 pts in last 4 GP
Pavel Datsyuk (C/LW) 1 pts in last 4 GP

COL: Hot:
Brett Clark (D) 2 pts in last 3 GP
Wojtek Wolski (C/LW) 13 pts in last 11 GP
Milan Hejduk (RW) 6 pts in last 5 GP
Chris Stewart (RW) 15 pts in last 14 GP
Matt Duchene (C) 6 pts in last 6 GP
Matt Hendricks (W/C) 3 pts in last 3 GP
Chris Durno (C/LW) 2 pts in last 2 GP
Paul Stastny (C) 15 pts in last 15 GP
Peter Budaj (G) 2-1-0, 0.90, .970 in last 4 GPI

COL: Not Hot:
Ryan Wilson (D) 0 pts in last 6 GP

From the CBC.ca:

The Avalanche have totaled 19 goals while winning four of their last five, including a 4-3 victory at Ottawa on Wednesday. . .

Colorado has outscored opponents 9-1 in the first period of its last five games, but has been outscored 9-5 in the third. The Avalanche’s only loss in the last five games came after they allowed four goals in the final 20 minutes and fell 4-2 to Anaheim on Dec. 22. . .

The Avalanche have won four straight away from home to improve to 12-7-4 on the road this season, and now have a chance for their first five-game road winning streak since a six-game run Jan. 19-March 11, 2002. They’ve also won their last three visits to Joe Louis Arena, including a 4-3 shootout win Oct. 17.

Nothing on tonights tilt from the Denver Post.  The Av’s did play at OTT last night, and won 3-2; but not before allowing OTT to score their 2 goals in the 3rd to make a contest

Khan(!) has cheery news, Eaves has the flu and is out, and Leino is in - Jimmah between the pipes:

Detroit Red Wings forward Patrick Eaves will miss tonight’s game against Colorado because of the flu. He hasn’t skated the last two days.

Ville Leino will return to the lineup. Coach Mike Babcock said he wasn’t sure who he would put in Eaves’ spot on the line with Darren Helm and Kris Draper, saying he’ll see how the game unfolds. Kirk Maltby has been practicing there.

Here are the lines they skated with today:

Bertuzzi-Datsyuk-Holmstrom
Ritola-Filppula-Miller
Draper-Helm-Maltby
May-Abdelkader-Leino

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Lebda-Stuart
Meech-Janik

Howard (starting)
Osgood

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