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Game Thread: Wings at Flames

Detroit Red Wings at Calgary Flames, Oct 31, 2009 9:00 PM CDT


The Detroit Red Wings finally wrap up their five-game, 11-day road trip tonight in Calgary against the Flames.

The biggest development for the Wings this week was the loss of forward Valtteri Filppula, who broke his wrist on Thursday evening in a game against Edmonton. He will be out 6-8 weeks.

"Obviously, I feel terrible," said Filppula, who recently was moved up to the second line. "But there's nothing I can do about it now."

The injury occurred on a hard, clean check by Gilbert Brule.

"It's a big blow, obviously," Babcock said. "We're going to have to buckle down as a team. It doesn't matter who's not here. It's about who is here. We are going to miss Fil. You don't replace good players like that. But we have to find a way to win games."

In other news, Ville Leino has been scratched from the lineup today which I find surprising since they lost Filppula to injury, but head coach Mike Babcock has made it clear he has not been pleased with Leino's play so far this season.

"Ville’s not working on any line. That’s clear. He’s having a day to watch,'' Babcock said. "He hasn’t played hard enough, so he’s going to watch the game and the other guys are going to play.’’

Chris Osgood will get the start in net tonight and here's what he told The Detroit News about it:

"I feel good," he said. "I have to play better than I did in Vancouver, but it was only (seven) minutes. I would have hoped to stay in but I didn't get that opportunity. I have to let that go and move on."

The Calgary Herald spoke with Todd Bertuzzi, who played for the Flames last year, about his return to the Wings this season.

You can catch tonight's game on CBC and FSDetroit Plus when the puck drops at 10 p.m. EDT. Don't know which channel FSDetroit Plus is on? Visit this page at FoxSports.com for that info. Go Wings!

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Wish I could stick around to watch the Wings take on the Flames. Off to downtown Lansing for some Halloween fun.

Go Wings.

Final Score: Wings 5 – Flames 4.

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by WpgMikos on Oct 31, 2009 7:03 PM CDT reply actions  

Everyone Trick or Treating?

I have a feeling this thread will be a little more bare than usual. Holler if you’re out there…

by Michael Petrella on Oct 31, 2009 9:20 PM CDT reply actions  

Just got home...

Apparently my Halloween was pretty tame.

by LolaLemon51 on Oct 31, 2009 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions  

yeahhh

great way to end the road trip…Go Wings!

we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE

thanks for a great season Rockies!

LETS GO WINGS!

by TuLoRocks2008 on Oct 31, 2009 11:31 PM CDT reply actions  

Just walked in.

Good times out tonight and even better result. Go Wings.

For more hockey news; http://www.illegalcurve.com

by WpgMikos on Oct 31, 2009 11:41 PM CDT reply actions  

wings at flames

I was at the flames game last night. The wings looked very stable considering the depleted lineup. They played probably their best defensive game this year. They didn’t try to do anything to fancy, just dumped the puck in and forechecked effectively. Kiprosoff made some big saves particularly the one on the pass from Helm to Eaves (That pairing looked great against Edmonton as well; not to big but great speed together.). Lidstom, Datsuk and Osgood were all very steady. Good work as a team which they’ll have to do in order to be effective because of the lost personel. I also took a disabled person to the game who wore his player signed Red Wings jersey. Way to go Red Wings!

by howefan on Nov 1, 2009 1:48 PM CST reply actions  

Embarrassing game thread...

But it was Halloween, and I didn’t participate, so I can’t talk.

Good, but also lucky game by the Wings.

Calgary played pretty sloppy.

by ZWC11 on Nov 1, 2009 5:56 PM CST reply actions  

Ergh...

Whatever happened to the post-game wrap up?

by ZWC11 on Nov 2, 2009 7:43 PM CST reply actions  

Halloween

None of the WIM bloggers were around to write it.

by Christy on Nov 2, 2009 9:51 PM CST up reply actions  

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