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San Jose Sharks at Detroit Red Wings
February 19, 2012 – 12:30 PM
TV: NBC
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It’s an early start today for the final game of Detroit’s six-game homestand, as the Red Wings host the San Jose Sharks.
The Wings are riding the hot hand, as Joey MacDonald will get the start in goal. This game previously had been pegged as the return date for Jimmy Howard, but now he’ll get his first start back from injury on Tuesday in Chicago. The resolution to Detroit’s goalie situation will be decided in the meantime.
No lineup changes from the previous several games have been announced for the Wings. After not having been needed in Friday’s game (which Henrik Zetterberg was healthy enough to play in), Tomas Tatar was returned to Grand Rapids. A poor effort against the Predators may mean Jakub Kindl is out of the lineup in favor of Mike Commodore.
Game time is 12:30 on NBC, with coverage starting at 12:00 because it’s Hockey Day in America.
Daniels and Pang calling the Wings, my dream replacement for when Mickey has to retire.
Nice shot by Zetterberg. A little weak by Niemi.
FYI, this game is available on NHL.com if you’re getting a different game on NBC.
I started out with the Buffalo game for all of five minutes then the Broadcast switched to the Wings. I love it!
The Sharks are pretty good at knocking pucks out of the air.
Dump and Chase…
Bullsh*t call there…
I hope Niemi threw out his back on that flop. Horrible goalie interference call.
The Sharks are trapping like no tomorrow. Neutral ice is full of bodies.
Six SOGs in the first four minutes to our none. Talk about pressure!
J MAC is in the house!
One of these days… One of these days… Helm will capitalize on the short handed rush.
MILLER!!!!!!!!!!!
Two Spartans connect, very nice. Playing the MSU fight song at the Joe.
Have you seen him when his game is on?
What is with all these calls? Are the refs trying to derail the streak? I get it if the call is warranted hoever, the call on Bert and then this one on Ericsson is ridiculous.
They better review this one…
It’s going to count.
Wings survived the second. A couple awful calls/non-calls and awful luck on the SJ goal.
Wings getting chances, not capitalizing, bad feeling.
Helm with some finish!
Abbey got worked!
Abdelkader shouldn’t have fought and shouldn’t have had to fight after a clean hit. Then the Sharks have the energy and score. Bad feeling still.
It was a clean hit. Clowe is just trying to fire his team up and should have gotten the two minute instigator.
Empty net… Here we go!
Come on!!!! Get it over with!
23!!!!
Quick notes because it’s an afternoon game and I say everytime that I hate afternoon games ’cause I have things to do in the afternoon…
For those saying that getting to twenty-three consecutive home wins means that the asterisk so many people want to put on this streak should be wiped out, remember that if you say the wins needed to be in regulation, the streak ended at twelve. Personally, I think it’s better to just ignore the people arguing that this streak is invalid. As I mentioned last week, you can always find a reason to apply an asterisk when you compare records across eras.
The Sharks played the Wings tough today. To a certain extent, it was a lot like Friday’s game against Nashville in that the visitors dictated the style of play for much of the game. This was probably a bit more physical than Detroit would have liked but they stepped up to the challenge and won anyway.
Notes on some specific plays…
San Jose shouldn’t have been on the power play for their first goal. While fluky as hell, the goal itself was good. The situation that caused it never should have happened, though. Brad Winchester had the puck when Jonathan Ericsson engaged him, that’s not interference. Call it holding if you want, I’d argue that less, I just really don’t like the call.
I won’t nit-pick other calls, but you know I want to. Especially the goalie interference call on Bertuzzi.
I didn’t like the Justin Abdelkader – Ryane Clowe fight in the third. Abdelkader put a clean hit on Clowe there and there was no reason to have to fight over it. The fight only served to give the Sharks energy, and they scored shortly after it. Replay didn’t show whether or not Abdelkader tried to decline the fight, I think he should have and if he tried but couldn’t get out of it, I think that’s a play that needs the instigator penalty.
Never like to see people get hurt but it was interesting in that stretch where so many Sharks went down after blocking shots. I’ve noticed for awhile that it seems like the Red Wings would lose players to injury from blocking shots but their opponents never did, and kind of wondered about that. Again, don’t want to see it but the tables turning seemed like something that, statistically, should have happened awhile ago.
The big question after this one will be which goalie stays in Detroit when Jimmy Howard comes back on Tuesday. That’ll be answered tomorrow. Joey MacDonald has earned the backup role but the Red Wings organization is loyal and Ty Conklin wasn’t signed to play in Grand Rapids. We’ll see what happens.