game recap 4 November 2009

First and foremost, congrats to Ozzie on his 50th career shutout.  He made some huge saves.
Secondly, congrats to the Detroit Red Wings, for not following this trend.
Goals were as follows:
Detroit: Henrik Zetterberg, (pp; Datsyuk); Tomas Holmstrom (Datsyuk, Bertuzzi)
Boston: none

Doug Janik was called up from GR to fill in for an …

 game recap 28 October 2009

Red Wings won!  Red Wings won!  If we’re this excited about a win in October, can you imagine what Leafs fans felt like the other day when they won their first of the season?
Goals were as follows:
Detroit: Tomas Holmstrom (Zetterberg, Datsyuk); Niklas Kronwall (unassisted); Pavel Datsyuk (Williams, Ericsson); Pavel Datsyuk …

 game recap 9 October 2009

I unfortunately wasn’t able to watch the game live and had to DVR it.  Which led to me finding out the score ahead of time.  Oh well, at least I knew we won…
Goals were as follows:
Detroit – Nicklas Lidstrom (pp; Williams, Zetterberg); Draper (Maltby, Ericsson); Franzen (pp; Holmstrom, Datsyuk)
Chicago – …

 game recap 4 October 2009

I don’t think anyone was expecting that.
Seriously, do you think the Blues really thought they would return to the US with two regulation wins over Detroit?
Some other thoughts:

Let’s just hope that being in Sweden was a bigger distraction than anticipated.  We all know Kenny Holland wasn’t hugely in favor of …

 Uncategorized 27 September 2009

Let’s take a quick poll:
Is anyone concerned that the Red Wings have only won 2 out of 7 pre-season games thus far? And that they’ve dropped the last 5 consecutively?
I’ll be honest: it’s a little disturbing to see the same trend that plagued the Red Wings last year rear …