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Detroit Red Wings at Dallas Stars
January 3, 2012 – 8:00 PM
TV: FSD
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Wings moving the puck all over the place before it got to Fil. Great job by him, too, to settle it down and get it into the net.
Lehtonen is absolutely on tonight.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see this come back but I don’t think there’s kicking motion.
Edit: I’ll take it.
Wings got all spun around there, could see that coming.
Mickey’s right, what the hell was Hudler doing that open there? That line is on fire.
I didn’t even get back in front of my TV before that one. Not the start to the second the Wings wanted.
Gotta hold the post. Ugly, Lehtonen, after all those great stops.
Yeah, that shot was through a screen, but Howard wasn’t square to it. A little awkward.
Jesus. Lehtonen gave him that top corner and Franzen put it right there.
What a back and forth game…
Edit: Lucky you as I am stuck with the NBC broadcast
On another note, Russia is up 2-0 against Canada!
Nyquist is all over the place!
Never heard of a linesman going out with “concussion like” symptoms…
Look how much red and white is in the crowd!
Howie with two good saves there!
Howard not looking good tonight but what was that mix up inside the blue line?
Who knows… Four minutes left, come on!
First class grade A clusterf*ck is what it was.
I’m feeling a six to four game here…
I’ll take five to four though!
Every win counts, but (as I suggested on Twitter immediately after the final buzzer) this was the sloppiest win of the season for the Red Wings, hands down.
Emblematic of the defensive side of Detroit’s game: Dallas’ fourth goal. Two Red Wings miscommunicate and collide inside the blue line, leaving Michael Ryder free to cut across the ice and overload the left side, then use Nicklas Lidstrom as a screen to get a shot past Jimmy Howard.
Howard got beat on shots through a screen three times, which I’m not sure what to think about. I feel like he should have been able to get at least one of them, as it’s not like the screens were particularly close to the net.
On the offensive side of the game, it’s crazy to think that the Wings scored five goals and that was with Kari Lehtonen playing out of his mind. It could have been 5-0 Detroit in the first period if not for some big stops, particularly on Johan Franzen and Jiri Hudler. Lehtonen made those stops but then allowed one where he didn’t hold the post and had one go in off a skate, leading to a weird situation where the Wings’ offense generated great chances that they didn’t score on but the seemingly harmless plays did get a couple goals.
Weird game. Not indicative of the talent level of either team, so I hope the Wings take the points and immediately forget about it.
The Red Wings kick off a four-game road trip tonight as they visit the Dallas Stars.
Darren Helm and Tomas Holmstrom – who had been targeting this game for their return from groin injuries – will not play. This means the rookie line of Cory Emmerton, Joakim Andersson and Gustav Nyquist remains intact. Jimmy Howard gets the start. Jakub Kindl is the healthy scratch on defense.
Game time is 8:00 PM. TV is FSD locally and NBCSN (formerly Versus) nationally.