Open Game Thread
Columbus Blue Jackets at Detroit Red Wings
October 21, 2011 – 7:30 PM
TV: FSD
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The Red Wings – off since last Saturday – resume their OHL-like schedule with another set of weekend games. Tonight it’s the Columbus Blue Jackets visiting Detroit and tomorrow the Wings are in Washington to face the Capitals.
Columbus is winless, suffering through injuries (Jeff Carter), suspensions (James Wisniewski) and indifference (averaging 11,394 fans in their four home games). The Wings are unbeaten (though they needed overtime to rally past the Minnesota Wild last week). With the similarly-undefeated Capitals up tomorrow, it’s easy to see how tonight’s matchup fits as a trap game.
Jimmy Howard gets the start against Steve Mason. Mike Commodore remains on STIR and will not play against his former team. With Brendan Smith’s AHL suspension over, he’s with the Griffins tonight rather than burning off a game of his NHL suspension with the Wings (he has two games of that remaining). Patrick Eaves and Fabian Brunnstrom are the healthy scratches.
On paper this should be an easy win however, as Clark mentioned, this has the making of a trap game. One of the keys to tonight’s game will be to avoid overconfidence which triggers lazy play.
Ken and Mickey talking about “making up” for the off nights later in the season like it’s a good thing.
Not sure what I think of that penalty on Homer. I feel like I’ve seen worse go uncalled but its a new NHL (again).
Helm going face-first into that block is terrifying.
Franzen has both Wings’ PPGs on the season. Real nice, quick shot.
Wings let Columbus dictate the pace for most of the second. Need to come back with more jump in the third, can’t let the Jackets get into it,.
Need to come out strong in the third!!!
I agree… The music at JLA sucks!
That new commercial with Drapes and Ozzie is LAME!
I like the CFS line. (Czech… Fin… Swede)
We have got to get Helm to the All-Star fastest skater competition!
sh*t
Howard screened by his own man with no one covering the guy on the point. Ugly breakdown.
Laziness… Pure laziness.
Nick!!!! I love it!!!
Used every second of that. Should have been much better but can’t complain about the result.
Thank god Lidstrom made up for that last one.
First PPG of the season not scored by Franzen.
Goal baby!
Amen!
Who’s going to score if Franzen’s in the box?
Helm!
Important PK there. Solid D.
REception on my 4G network sucks tonight. I’ll make up for it as I’ll be sitting behind the Red Wing box tomorrow in D.C.
Dr. Fil with three assists!
4 point Fil!
Bush league performance by the Jackets.
Not a bad start to the season…
“Last time he scored a hat trick, he didn’t score for 20 games.”
Dr. Fil is just great.
Can’t really complain about a 5-0 start, but the Wings definitely coasted at points tonight. Against a better team that might have meant something. Against a Columbus team that already looks significantly defeated, not so much.
The Jackets definitely had their chances tonight the Red Wings were slow in their own end throughout much of the second period. Here’s the question, though: Was Columbus’ lack of scoring because they’re that bad or because even a slow Detroit team is that good?
Partway through the game I was thinking, “Wow, this has really slowed down but the Wings are locking things down in their own zone.” Then I saw that the Blue Jackets were outshooting the Red Wings in the middle period. Was it really that the Wings had locked things down or were the Jackets just not capitalizing? I’d like to hope the former but I’m not sure.
I tweeted this when it happened but just to mention it again: Great to see Ericsson with a good fight but that didn’t need to happen. Dorsett had nothing to lose and everything to gain in terms of getting his team momentum, I wouldn’t have minded seeing Ericsson decline and not give him the opportunity. That said, it all worked out.
First game without a point for Jiri Hudler but the rest of the second line picked up the slack as Franzen and Filppula each had four points. That line is going to be highly important this season if Datsyuk and Zetterberg are going to be played together on the top line so it’s fantastic to see so much from them early.
Hopefully the slower play by Detroit tonight means they’ll be rested in Washington tomorrow in a battle of undefeated teams.
Three consecutive goals by Franzen across six days, all on the power play.
Brassard was the only one who didn’t stop moving there. Everyone else got spun around when the initial shot came off the post.
Agreed. I’m not sure what to think anymore.
The Mule is on fire!
White, then Zetterberg, then Holmstrom, then Datsyuk. Great job by the entire team to stay with the puck there.
If that was ‘Moves Like Jagger’ they were playing in the JLA I’m going to cry. They seriously play some of the sh*ttiest music ever.
Also that was a good fight, IMO.
Even if that wasn’t Moves Like Jagger they still play ridiculous crap.
Damn, Ericsson kicked some ass there. Classy end to it, too.
Which lets me break out my favorite quote about the music at the Joe, that it hasn’t been updated “since Brendan Shanahan was traded to the team in 1996 and requested Republica’s ‘Ready to Go.'” Obviously not entirely true but the sentiment stands.
It’s so true! And now that they have finally started to get newer music, they of course play the worst songs from the radio.
I’ll get back on topic now it’s just infuriating. That or the Wings fans need to acquire some taste.