Detroit Powerplay Fuels 3-2 Win Over Capitals
by MrNorrisTrophy on Oct 10, 2009 8:57 PM CDT
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On a night in which all eyes were looking for Johan Franzen, the Red Wings got great help from the powerplay and two secondary scorers. Chris Osgood played a sharp game in net for the second straight night to allow his teammates to stay in this game against the high powered Caps offense.
Matt Bradley opened the game's scoring early in the first period with a hard slap shot from the face-off circle that squirted underneath Chris Osgood's left arm and gave the Capitals the lead with only 3:58 played. Detroit played better defensively and was able to draw two consecutive powerplays. Although unable to convert on the two chances, the Wings eventually scored soon afterwards. Ville Leino buried a puck in the crease at 15:49 after several chances by other Wings players were stopped by Jose Theodore. Dan Cleary and Valtteri Filppula were credited with the assists on the Leino goal, his second of the season.
Osgood stonewalled Alex Ovechkin in the low slot on a give-and-go as the Capitals had a powerplay following a bad penalty to Niklas Kronwall. With under a minute to play, Osgood's toe save was huge in getting the Wings to the locker room with a tie after one period. The Caps were unable to score on the remainder of the powerplay to start the second period following some good defensive play by the Wings in the defensive zone.
Alexander Semin took his second penalty of the second period to put the Red Wings on the powerplay. If you've wondered why Jason Williams is on the point for the powerplay, cue the video replay of the goal he scored at 16:26 of the second period. Williams received a pass from Kronwall and absolutely ripped a shot over Theodore's and under the crossbar for a 2-1 Detroit lead. Nicklas Lidstrom took a hooking call as the second period came to a close as Osgood over pursued a pass to Semin and Lidstrom had no choice but to hook him to prevent a wrap-around goal. The Capitals took advantage of the powerplay in the third period as Brendan Morrison fired a slapshot past Osgood for a tied game, 1:25 into the fresh period.
Washington defenseman Mike Green took a hooking call to put the Wings on the man advantage again. Tomas Holmstrom scored about 30 seconds into the powerplay on a one-time shot in the slot from a Pavel Datsyuk pass for a 3-2 Detroit lead at 13:07. With the game winding down, Datsyuk/Zetterberg/Bertuzzi put on a clinic in puck possession and offensive pressure--limiting the ability for the Capitals to get anything going offensively as the seconds ticked off the clock. Following a brief, high intensity flurry at the end of the game, the Red Wings were able to give the home crowd something to smile about as they closed the game out with a 3-2 victory.
The Red Wings scored twice on five powerplay chances and used the bad penalties by the Caps to keep the pressure in the offensive zone. Detroit outshot Washington 37-24 including an 11-4 third period count. The next game is on Tuesday, October 13 at Buffalo.
MrNorrisTrophy's Player of the Game: Pavel Datsyuk. Could pick Fil (2 A) or Ozzie (22 saves) but Datsyuk was the key to this game. He won 50% of face-offs, had 3 takeaways, 5 shots on goal, primary assist on the winning goal, 22 minutes of ice-time and was a nightmare to defend for the Caps.
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Nice job Wings!
missed the game but great start minus Franzen
we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE
ROCKTOBER HAS BEGUN!
by TuLoRocks2008 on Oct 11, 2009 12:48 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Somewhat off Topic
I saw that ESPN has a link claiming “Biron to Wings put on hold” but it was under the rumors section and I need to be an “Insider” to get the info (fat chance). Anyone hear anything about this little rumor?
by Zegarek88 on Oct 11, 2009 9:51 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I’ve heard about the rumor but I think its pure speculation. I don’t think it makes sense for us to trAde for him with such little cap room
by MrNorrisTrophy on Oct 11, 2009 10:05 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Where did you see that? I just went through the last week of rumors and didn’t notice it and a quick Google doesn’t bring up any other articles on it.
by Apocalyptic0n3 on Oct 11, 2009 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think it was an old rumour
I heard it was from the summer. ESPN is too busy with it’s Favre-o-rama to bother with a little trifle like keeping an exotic foreign sport like hockey updated.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
by Baroque on Oct 11, 2009 7:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Leino
I am currently living in Colorado so I don’t normally get to see as many Wings games as I would like to(thank god for free preview of Center Ice!). I thought Leino played like Datsyuk did at that point in his rookie years only with a lot more confidence.
by rc2id on Oct 11, 2009 1:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Keep in mind that Datsyuk has only been pro for three years less (and was 4-5 years younger in his NHL rookie seasons) and that Leino was a superstar in Finland. Was the MVP of the league over there before he signed with us.
Nothing against Leino, I love his play. I just think some perspective was needed on that statement.
by Apocalyptic0n3 on Oct 11, 2009 5:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
*has only been pro for three years more
PRetty bad typo. lol
by Apocalyptic0n3 on Oct 11, 2009 5:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
none the less, I believe he will be a superstar in a couple years
by rc2id on Oct 12, 2009 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Spending a year in Grand Rapids really helped him too, I think. He could have left and gone home to a lucrative career in Finland instead of riding the bus with the minor leaguers, but he stuck it out and spent a year learning the smaller rink. I respect him a lot more for that than if he had talked his way into a job with the big league club before he was really prepared for it, and then spent his time struggling because he was in over his head.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
by Baroque on Oct 11, 2009 7:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
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