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GDT - Game #57: Red Wings at Ducks (10:00)
by Jeff OKWingnut on 02/03/10 at 10:05 AM ET
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Apparently this years edition of the Detroit Red Wings is indeed man enough answer the bell. Amazing game last night against the #1 team in the league, especially after DET dug themselves into a two goal deficit in the first ten minutes. All of which prompted Babcock to ponder aloud: “Our structure was way better. If you can do it against good teams why can’t you do it every night? That’s what we’ve got to talk about. Hopefully we’re on the path to getting better.”
On the glass half-empty side of last nights game, Kronwall sits tonight: “He got slew-footed early in the game,” Babcock said. “He left the game (in the third period) and that’s not a good sign. He won’t play (tonight against Anaheim).” Big E(rror) may get out of the doghouse early.
Huge game tonight for ANA (6-4 in last ten), who sit in 11th place, 5 points from 8th. ANA are coming off a 3-0 at FLA Monday. Hopefully, DET can keep the train rolling.
Standings:
DET: 56 GP, 27-19-10, 64 pts (8 in Conf, 3 in Central), 146 GF, 149 GA, Last 10 3-3-4, Streak Won 1
ANA: 56 GP, 26-23-7, 59 pts (11 in Conf, 5 in Pacific), 155 GF, 172 GA, Last 10 6-4-0, Streak Won 2
DET on road: 12-11-6
ANA at home: 16-8-2
Stats (rank):
DET: .571 point% (13), 2.54 g/g (26), 2.55 ga/g (10), 0.94 5-5 f/a (23), 18.1 pp (19), 81.4 pk (17), 32.6 s/g (5), 30.2 sa/g (18), 51.5 fo% (5).
ANA: .527 point% (17), 2.70 g/g (2), 3.00 ga/g (3), 0.96 5-5 f/a (3), 19.2 pp (4), 80.6 pk (1), 29.1 s/g (6), 32.8 sa/g (21), 48.0 fo% (1).
Goal Differential/Game:
DET = -0.01
ANA = -0.30
Player Stats:
DET Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI
C Pavel Datsyuk 54 14 30 44 12 20:22
L Henrik Zetterberg 48 14 29 43 6 19:54
D Nicklas Lidstrom 56 6 26 32 19 25:29
R Todd Bertuzzi 56 15 16 31 -6 17:09
R Dan Cleary 44 12 14 26 -1 17:47
D Brian Rafalski 52 4 20 24 14 24:21
L Tomas Holmstrom 43 15 8 23 5 16:00
C Valtteri Filppula 30 4 16 20 -3 17:39
C Kris Draper 55 6 11 17 -1 12:39
R Patrick Eaves 45 9 7 16 -1 14:21
C Darren Helm 49 8 8 16 -1 15:05
L Drew Miller 54 7 7 14 5 12:51
D Niklas Kronwall 26 5 8 13 1 21:13
D Brad Stuart 56 2 9 11 -9 23:43
D Jonathan Ericsson 41 3 7 10 -12 17:46
C Jason Williams 18 3 5 8 -6 14:45
L Ville Leino 42 4 3 7 -10 13:12
D Brett Lebda 52 1 5 6 -7 15:12
L Justin Abdelkader 50 3 3 6 -11 10:35
L Kirk Maltby 48 3 2 5 0 10:03
D Derek Meech 37 2 3 5 -9 13:28
D Doug Janik 13 0 2 2 -3 13:28
C Johan Franzen 3 1 1 2 0 18:41
L Brad May 38 0 1 1 -5 7:10
C Kris Newbury 4 1 0 1 1 8:41
C Mattias Ritola 5 0 0 0 0 11:41
D Jakub Kindl 3 0 0 0 -2 10:49
DET Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Jimmy Howard 38, 20-11-6, 2.25, 0.928 - - - Jimmy’s 0.928 is good for 4th in the league.
Chris Osgood 21, 7-8-4, 2.94, 0.891
ANA Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI
C Ryan Getzlaf 52 14 38 52 0 22:08
R Corey Perry 56 20 31 51 -1 21:26
R Bobby Ryan 56 24 19 43 4 18:40
D Scott Niedermayer 56 5 26 31 -16 26:19
C Saku Koivu 47 10 19 29 7 18:06
L Jason Blake 57 10 16 26 -4 15:48
R Teemu Selanne 31 17 7 24 -5 16:38
D James Wisniewski 51 3 21 24 0 24:13
D Ryan Whitney 56 3 20 23 -9 24:38
R Dan Sexton 28 9 9 18 -1 13:56
C Todd Marchant 56 7 9 16 -13 15:55
R Joffrey Lupul 23 10 4 14 3 15:57
C Petteri Nokelainen 48 4 6 10 -4 12:57
R Evgeny Artyukhin 37 4 5 9 0 9:04
D Sheldon Brookbank 40 0 9 9 10 13:38
L Matt Beleskey 34 5 4 9 -7 14:12
D Nick Boynton 42 1 6 7 1 16:45
R Mike Brown 54 6 1 7 3 8:41
D Steve Eminger 40 2 4 6 -4 17:30
C Kyle Chipchura 48 3 2 5 -15 11:27
R Troy Bodie 18 2 1 3 -5 11:26
C Ryan Carter 25 1 2 3 0 9:30
L Kyle Calder 14 0 2 2 -7 14:07
D Brendan Mikkelson 22 0 2 2 -5 14:55
D Brett Festerling 24 0 2 2 0 13:59
R George Parros 41 1 0 1 1 5:37
D Luca Sbisa 8 0 0 0 -1 12:37
C MacGregor Sharp 8 0 0 0 0 4:09
ANA Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Jonas Hiller 40, 22-15-2, 2.68, 0.918
Vesa Toskala 26, 7-12-3, 3.66, 0.874
Injury Report:
DET:
Johan Franzen (LW/RW) Left knee surgery (Mid-February)
ANA:
Joffrey Lupul (RW/LW) Leg injury (Sidelined indefinitely)
HOT and NOT:
DET: Hot:
Brad Stuart (D) 2 pts in last 3 GP
Pavel Datsyuk (C/LW) 7 pts in last 5 GP
Henrik Zetterberg (C/LW) 4 pts in last 3 GP
Valtteri Filppula (C/LW) 4 pts in last 3 GP
Dan Cleary (LW/RW) 4 pts in last 4 GP
Jimmy Howard (G) 1-0-1, 1.44, .963 in last 2 GPI
DET: Not Hot:
Niklas Kronwall (D) 0 pts in last 5 GP
Brian Rafalski (D) 1 pts in last 4 GP
Todd Bertuzzi (LW/RW) 1 pts in last 4 GP
Chris Osgood (G) 0-2-0, 4.40, .814 in last 3 GPI
ANA: Hot:
James Wisniewski (D) 2 pts in last 2 GP
Ryan Getzlaf (C) 3 pts in last 2 GP
Jonas Hiller (G) 2-0-0, 0.48, .984 in last 2 GPI
ANA: Not Hot:
Scott Niedermayer (D) 1 pts in last 4 GP
Saku Koivu (C) 0 pts in last 4 GP
Bobby Ryan (RW/LW) 0 pts in last 3 GP
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Amazing game last night against the #1 team in the league. Unfortunately, I feel asleep midway through the 2nd period. Khan(!) did not, and has the scoop from Babcock:
“Our team did a good job back-checking, our structure was way better,’’ Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “If you can do it against good teams, why can’t you do it every night?’’ . . .
“I thought we stuck with it,’’ Babcock said. “Our good players were good, our specialty teams were very good and we found a way to score enough goals to win.
“Our guys, (Henrik) Zetterberg, (Pavel) Datsyuk and Bertuzzi, playing head to head against (Joe) Thornton’s line (with Patrick Marleau and Dany Heatley) had a real good night.’’ . . .
“The key was we got through the neutral zone,’’ Babcock said. “Sometimes, we’re stubborn that way, we don’t want to just make the D turn around and we force plays instead of just going in and getting on their D and creating things in the offensive zone. I thought we had good physical play in that area.’’
. . . Meech was on the power play because defenseman Niklas Kronwall did not play in the third period, after tweaking his left knee in the first period.
It is the same knee Kronwall injured Nov. 21, causing him to miss nearly 10 weeks. He appeared to reaggravate the injury in Sunday’s loss in Pittsburgh.
Babcock said Kronwall will not play Wednesday night at Anaheim.
Helene St James, Freep.com, notes that Babcock hasn’t decided who is in net tonight:
Niklas Kronwall left early after hurting an ankle and tweaking his left knee. He’s only five games into a comeback after being out 30 games because of a sprained left MCL.
Babcock said Kronwall won’t play tonight at Anaheim. Babcock said he hadn’t decided whether Jimmy Howard, who made 32 saves, would be in net against the Ducks, too.
McCosky, DetNews.com, has a good take from McClellan:
“They hunted us down pretty good,” he said. “Their forecheck was real good. There was a point in the game where they decided they were going to get in behind us and they really came after us.”
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Not much in the LATimes about tonights game:
Record vs. Red Wings: 1-1-1.
Update: Teemu Selanne returned from a broken jaw Monday and scored a goal, his 17th in only 31 games in an injury-marred season. Ducks defenseman Nick Boynton cleared waivers Tuesday and remains with the team. Detroit, hampered by injuries this season after consecutive appearances in the Stanley Cup finals, is one of the teams the Ducks are chasing for the final Western Conference playoff spot.
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