Red Wings blow out Blue Jackets 9-1

by joehass on Nov 11, 2009 9:36 PM CST in Game Recaps Comment 14 comments

Justin Abdelkader celebrates his second goal of the night with Brad May.

Ken Hitchcock entered the league in January, 1996. In his first game with the Dallas Stars, he lost 4-0 to the Detroit Red Wings. For Ken Hitchcock's 1,000th game as an NHL coach, that was the score at the end of the first period.

Seven different Red Wings scored Wednesday night as Detroit beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 8-1 in Columbus.Jimmy Howard made 25 saves to help the Red Wings get their three-games-in-four-nights run off to a flying start.

Detroit jumped out quickly on goals from Dan Cleary and Pavel Datsuyk in the first four minutes, both from bad Columbus clearing attempts. When Kris Draper made it 3-0 on yet another Blue Jacket turnover, Hitchcock pulled starting goaltender Steve Mason, seemingly ready to give his starter the rest of the night off having faced only six shots.

The Red Wings would add the first-period capper from Niklas Kronwall on a screen by Todd Bertuzzi to go to the locker room up 4-0. But when Columbus came out for the second period, Mason was back in net. And it seemed to be a reasonable decision, as Rick Nash took advantage of a sloppy touch by Nicklas Lidstrom to put the Columbus on the board.

But Detroit came back with two goals in 33 seconds from two players that desperately needed to light the lamp. First Bertuzzi took a Datsuyk pass and put it past Moore so fast that no one except Bertuzzi responded. Then Ville Leino was set up nicely by Henrik Zetterberg to get his first goal since October 10 against Washington. The Red Wings went to the locker room up 6-1, which already set their high-water mark for goals in a game this year.

But they weren't done yet. With Anton Stralman in the penalty box, Kronwall got his second of the night by putting it in the top corner. Then Justin Abdelkader got into the action with back-to-back goals, his first goals since October 17.

Interestingly, every Red Wing goal scorer netted his third goal of the season tonight.

The Red Wings will head back to Joe Louis Arena for tomorrow night's matchup with Vancouver.

Player of the game: Niklas Kronwall's three points helped lead the Wings.

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great great great game

but it all means nothing if we come out flat tomorrow…get on that ride back to detroit and show up like this tomorrow!

we seem to have gotten over that HURDLE

thanks for a great season Rockies!

LETS GO WINGS!

by TuLoRocks2008 on Nov 11, 2009 9:40 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

exactly

if we can get 9 on luongo haha. unlikely but would be awesome.

Winging It In Motown

by Casey Richey on Nov 11, 2009 10:13 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Luongo is still injured, I thought? Hasn’t played since the last game against us. Or that’s at least what my fantasy report has been telling me. Not having him play has left my team in trouble with four players injured (Him, Franzen, Huselias on Columbus, and someone else I can’t remember). I’ve gone from first to last since he got injured. lol

by Apocalyptic0n3 on Nov 12, 2009 3:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i think...

he had the flu but they were expecting him back for this game. I’d prefer Raycroft I guess.
Yeah on my fantasy team I had Franzen, Filppula, and someone else that got hurt long term.

Winging It In Motown

by Casey Richey on Nov 12, 2009 8:24 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

This is the kind of game

that makes you take a double-take at the scoreboard

Light a man a fire, he'll stay warm for a day.
Light a man afire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

by Seer on Nov 11, 2009 10:38 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

yup

My wife is from the Philippines and doesn’t really care much for hockey, and even she said “what the f##k?” to that score

by rc2id on Nov 12, 2009 10:58 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Jesus

I haven’t been keeping up with this season very much, but wow, how do you do this to a so-called professional hockey team? This is pretty much a hockey translation to the Pats-Titans game. Complete and utter annihilation.

Head Weatherman/ Injury Specialist of the Phinsider.

Bender: Who wants dolphin? Leela: Dolphin? But dolphins are intelligent. Bender: Not this one. He blew all his money on instant lottery tickets.

by Farorefox on Nov 12, 2009 12:38 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Both of which

I have been cheering for the winning side. Wee!!

Winging It In Motown

by Casey Richey on Nov 12, 2009 8:25 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm a phins fan, so I'm not too keen on the Pats at the moment :0

Head Weatherman/ Injury Specialist of the Phinsider.

Bender: Who wants dolphin? Leela: Dolphin? But dolphins are intelligent. Bender: Not this one. He blew all his money on instant lottery tickets.

by Farorefox on Nov 12, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

haha oops, my bad.

Also, nice Bender quote

Winging It In Motown

by Casey Richey on Nov 12, 2009 1:04 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I will give them props for last Sunday though

and this current decade. I’ll be really mad (sorta) if we win our next game against them, cause we’ll be 9-11 against them throughout the past 10 years. Was hoping for a victory last week so we might have a shot at evening the score.

Head Weatherman/ Injury Specialist of the Phinsider.

Bender: Who wants dolphin? Leela: Dolphin? But dolphins are intelligent. Bender: Not this one. He blew all his money on instant lottery tickets.

by Farorefox on Nov 12, 2009 1:06 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs