game preview 1 March 2010

Well, the Olympics are over and it’s back to the regular season grind.  The Wings are sitting in 10th seed, tied at 68 points with Dallas who has the tie breaker (they had to go all the way to Goals For, strangely, and sadly, Dallas cleaned up in that department), …

 stars of the week 2 February 2010

Here are my picks for the Red Wings’ stars of the week for 1/25-1/31
#3: Nicklas Lidstrom
Nick shifted to a completely different gear this week, going 3-3-6 and +2.  Two of his goals were on the power play.  And he’s continued his rock-solid play on the blueline, as pretty much the …

 game recap 30 January 2010

Sometimes I don’t get this team.  Sloppy game all around and yet we still walk away with the win.  Whatever, I’ll take it.
- For a textbook example of lackadaisical defense, see the first period.  Horrible.   The D got walked around a good 3, 4 times.  They had 18 giveaways, …

 game recap 8 January 2010

First off, I’ve been kind of terrible about blogging this week, but several things have chosen this moment to take over my life.  This late, the recap is kind of a moot point, but oh well.
This was a game that I mentioned on The Obstructed View that I was looking …

 game recap 6 January 2010

Wings had a crap effort tonight.  But at least for me, my mood was tempered some by the fantastic, amazing overtime win by the Under-20 USA team who stole gold from Canada at the World Junior Championships today, ending Canada’s 5 year streak.
Changing up the formatting a little bit for …

 stars of the week 4 January 2010

Here are my picks for Red Wings’ stars of the week for 12/28 to 1/3. Three games this past week, and really great play in all of them, even with the one loss in Columbus.
#3: Pavel Datsyuk
It seems like he’s warming up, and hopefully getting on to the beginning …

 Ozzie! Ozzie! 31 December 2009

The usually polite Sammy’s telling Sweden to go Eff themselves, and the typically Zen Osgood is getting frustrated and calling out Babcock’s goalie “rotation.”  What is this world coming to?
Howard’s been hot recently, winning games, and playing extremely well even in losses (see: Monday’s 0-1 vs Columbus).  Osgood hasn’t played …

 game preview 19 December 2009

This is going to be crazy quick because the game starts in 15 minutes.
The Wings did a great job rallying on Thursday when Zetterberg went down, so let’s hope they can continue to channel that determination.  Helm is back in the lineup.
Marty Turco’s in net for the Stars
Career stats vs …

 Uncategorized 18 December 2009

By now I’m certain everyone’s heard the news that Zetterberg will be out a minimum of two weeks with a “slight shoulder separation” after getting decked by Mattias Ohlund Thursday.  I personally can’t imagine how any shoulder separation is slight, but at least he’s not out for extremely long term.
In …

 Uncategorized 14 December 2009

Jimmy Howard is getting the start for Detroit tonight against Phoenix, regardless of the fact that Osgood played well on Saturday.  Cue the goalie controversy arguments again.  I honestly don’t know what to make of the fact that Babcock is choosing not to play Osgood, but Howard has been playing …