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GDT - Game # 61:  Red Wings host Sharks (7:30)

by Jeff OKWingnut on 02/25/09 at 09:10 AM ET
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Clash of the Western Conference Titans tonite at the JLA. The Sharks have set the pace in the Western Conference this season, with the Wings trying to keep up.  Almost at the 3/4 pole, and the Sharks are beginning to show signs of their perennial late season meltdowns, going 5-1-4 in their last 10 games (but winners of 4 straight).  Detroit has had three days rest since their anemic performance at MIN on Saturday.  San Jose is coming off a 1-0 win in their Monday night tilt at Dallas.  This game could well be a preview of the WCF.  You have to wonder if the level of competition will encourage the Wings to play 60mins tonite.  If you’re interested in the statistics, and the latest from the MSM on tonights game, I encourage you to continue reading. 

Also, in case you’re interested, you can check the GDT threads between games for post-game, and any additonal newsworthy items.

Standings:

DET:  60 g/p 39 13 8 86 pts (2 in Conf, 1 in Central), 228 gf, 177 ga, Last 10 7-2-1, Streak Lost 1

SJS:  58 g/p 41 8 9 91 pts (1 in Conf, 1 in Pacific), 200 gf, 140 ga, Last 10 5-1-4, Streak Won 4

Stats (rank):

NOTE:  SJS ranks no worse than 4th in every statistical category noted below.  Except for ga/g and pk, DET ranks no worse than 4th.

DET:  .717 win% (3), 3.70 g/g (1), 2.92 ga/g (20), 1.31 5-5 f/a (3), 27.8 pp (1) ,77.5 pk (28), 36.0 s/g (1), 27.7 sa/g (4), 55.8 fo% (1).

SJS:  .784 win% (1), 3.40 g/g (2), 2.34 ga/g (3), 1.28 5-5 f/a (4), 24.1 pp (2), 84.1 pk (4) 34.3 s/g (2), 27.3 sa/g (1), 53.6 fo% (2).

Player Stats:

DET Skaters
Player GP G A PTS +/- 
Pavel Datsyuk 59 25 49 74 30
Marian Hossa   60 33 27 60 17
Henrik Zetterberg 55 22 32 54 16  
Brian Rafalski 60 8 42 50 14  
Jiri Hudler 60 20 29 49 6
Nicklas Lidstrom 57 12 32 44 23
Johan Franzen 49 25 13 38 11
Niklas Kronwall 58 2 35 37 -2
Mikael Samuelsson 59 16 20 36 5
Daniel Cleary 52 12 21 33 7
Tomas Holmstrom 40 14 16 30 16
Valtteri Filppula 60 6 24 30 11
Brett Lebda 48 5 8 13 8
Andreas Lilja 57 2 11 13 13
Tomas Kopecky 58 3 9 12 -1
Kris Draper 59 5 6 11 -13
Kirk Maltby 56 5 5 10 -7  
Brad Stuart 45 1 7 8 4
Ville Leino   10 4 3 7 5   20
Derek Meech 27 1 3 4 -8
Darren McCarty 13 1 0 1 -2
Darren Helm 13 0 1 1 -5
Aaron Downey 1 0 0 0 0
Justin Abdelkader 2 0 0 0 0
Chris Chelios 20 0 0 0 3

DET Goalies
Player GP W L OT GAA PCT
Ty Conklin DET 30 21 7   1 2.32 .915
2 Chris Osgood DET 31 18 5   7 3.29 .879
3 James Howard DET 1 0 1   0 4.07 .857

SJS Skaters
Player GP G A PTS +/- 
Joe Thornton 58 15 53 68 24
Patrick Marleau 58 33 30 63 25
Devin Setoguchi 57 25 27 52 19
Ryane Clowe 58 21 28 49 12
Joe Pavelski 56 17 26 43 9
Dan Boyle 53 14 29 43 15
Milan Michalek 53 16 24 40 13
Rob Blake 56 9 28 37 21
Marc-Edouard Vlasic 58 5 24 29 20
Christian Ehrhoff 57 6 22 28 -5
Mike Grier 56 10 12 22 7
Jonathan Cheechoo 46 9 12 21 1
Tomas Plihal 52 5 8 13 3
Jeremy Roenick 30 3 6 9 -1
Marcel Goc 43 2 7 9 -6
Brad Lukowich 37 0 6 6 9
Alexei Semenov 31 1 5 6 7
Douglas Murray 51 0 6 6 6
Lukas Kaspar 12 2 2 4 1
Brad Staubitz 17 1 2 3 2
Jamie McGinn 18 2 1 3 -3
Jody Shelley 46 1 2 3 -3
Claude Lemieux 14 0 1 1 -2
Tom Cavanagh 12 0 1 1 -2
Riley Armstrong 2 0 0 0 -1
Derek Joslin 11 0 0 0 -2
Ryan Vesce 2 0 0 0 -2

SJS Goalies
Player GP W L OT GAA PCT
Evgeni Nabokov 46 32 7 7 5 0.910 2.44
Brian Boucher   13 9 1   2 1.79 .932

Injury Report:

DET:
Tomas Holmstrom (RW/LW) Sports hernia (Early March)
Brett Lebda (D) Back injury (Day to day)

SJS:
Marcel Goc (C/W) Lower body injury (Late February)
Torrey Mitchell (C) Leg injury (Sidelined indefinitely)

Hot and Not:
DET:
Brian Rafalski (D) 6 pts in last 4 GP
Nicklas Lidstrom (D) 6 pts in last 4 GP
Niklas Kronwall (D) 11 pts in last 11 GP
Henrik Zetterberg (C) 5 pts in last 3 GP
Pavel Datsyuk (C/LW) 15 pts in last 10 GP
Johan Franzen (LW/C) 4 pts in last 3 GP
Dan Cleary (LW/RW) 5 pts in last 4 GP
Ville Leino (W/C) 3 pts in last 3 GP
Tomas Kopecky (W/C) 2 pts in last 2 GP
Ty Conklin (G) 4-0-0, 1.75, .928 in last 4 GPI

NOT:  Marian Hossa (RW) 0 pts in last 3 GP

SJS:
Rob Blake (D) 5 pts in last 5 GP
Joe Thornton (C) 10 pts in last 6 GP
Devin Setoguchi (RW/LW) 3 pts in last 3 GP
Joe Pavelski (C) 10 pts in last 11 GP
Milan Michalek (LW) 14 pts in last 15 GP
Evgeni Nabokov (G) 2-0-0, 0.50, .981 in last 2 GPI

Jeff Sagarin NHL ratings: from USAToday.com

NHL 2008-2009 through games of 2009 February 24 Tuesday
HOME ADVANTAGE=  0.33       RATING   W   L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 16 |  ELO_CHESS   |  PREDICTOR
  1 San Jose Sharks       =  5.10   41 17   4.00(  15)  13   6 |  23 11 |  5.09   1 |  5.11   1
  2 Detroit Red Wings     =  4.88   39 21   4.07(  11)  12   7 |  22 14 |  4.84   2 |  4.92   3

Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, has the Wings practice lines, Kopecky and Cheli sitting, Stuie in:

Update from Joe Louis Arena today: With defenseman Brad Stuart back in the lineup, Chris Chelios will be a healthy scratch Thursday, when the Red Wings host the Sharks at the Joe.

Up front, coach Mike Babcock said it’s Tomas Kopecky’s turn to sit out.

That means the lines will be:

Datsyuk-Zetterberg-Cleary
Franzen-Filppula-Hossa
Hudler-Helm-Samuelsson
Leino-Draper—Maltby

On defense:
Lidstrom-Rafalski
Kronwall-Stuart
Lilja-Meech

Ty Conklin is starting in net.

Shark’s practice lines from Tuesday, Dave Pollak’s blog at the San Jose Mercury News:

” . . .Todd McLellan kept the same lines together that finished against the Stars. To refresh your memories, that would be:

Ryane Clowe-Joe Thornton-Devin Setoguchi

Milan Michalek-Joe Pavelski-Jeremy Roenick

Jonathan Cheechoo-Patrick Marleau-Mike Grier

Jody Shelley-Tomas Plihal-Claude Lemieux

We’ll see tomorrow morning if that’s how things stay against the Red Wings, but keep in mind that McLellan is tinkering with some regularity these days (which is one of those things I was going to get to last night).

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