Wings explode in 2nd period, hold on late
by Casey Richey on Mar 7, 2010 3:11 PM CST
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What a huge win by the Red Wings over long time rival Chicago. It wasn't just getting the 2 points that was important, but the way the Red Wings bounced back after the first period with 5 goals in the second and then holding off a Blackhawks attack that was firing on all cylinders in the third period.
Neither goalie played particularly well today but then again both offenses were ready to rock from the beginning. Duncan Keith started the scoring for the Blackhawks with a blast from the point following a juicy rebound from Jimmy Howard. Keith's shot hit off Brian Rafalski and then went in for a 1-0 Chicago lead at 4:24. Andrew Ladd added his first of three goals midway through the third after a poor pass from Valtteri Filppula landed right on the stick of Ladd; top corner, 2-0.
Brian Rafalski scored on the power play with a rocket shot from the point that beat Cristobal Huet. Nicklas Lidstrom shot another puck from the point with Todd Bertuzzi (more on him later) that beat Huet only 38 seconds later. Jason Williams scored a tap-in goal off of a beautiful pass from Henrik Zetterberg at 9:45. Less than a minute later Valtteri Filppula made amends for his poor pass in the first period by taking a breakout pass and beating Huet for a very quick 4-2 Detroit lead.
Filppula's goal ended Huet's game and Chicago replaced him with Antti Niemi. Huet allowed 4 goals on 17 shots before being pulled by Joel Quenneville. Pavel Datsyuk picked Patrick Kane's pocket late in the third period and scored a great breakaway goal on Niemi with 3 seconds left.
Andrew Ladd added two more goals in the third period for a hat trick. The Chicago attack was buzzing towards the end of the third and almost tied it up several times. The Wings held on late and got a little bit lucky on a few chances.
Shocking stat of the game:
The top for defensemen (Lidstrom, Rafalski, Kronwall, Stuart) all played 23+ minutes.
Player of the game: Pavel Datsyuk. Datsyuk has been on fire since the Olympics and it continued today. Datsyuk had 4 takeaways, 3 hits, won 53% of his face-offs and oh yeah, has the game winning goal.
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And all of a sudden, the season isn’t looking so bad. The Red Wings are now projected to finish with 93 points, just inside the playoff bubble, and 100 is no longer looking impossible.
Unfortunately, the defense has been getting worse for a while now. Hopefully, it improves again so scoring 5 goals is not required for a win.
Hawks
Nice win for the wings especially in light of an early 2-0 deficit. I just went over to the Chicago SB nation site and I would like to challenge all Red Wings fans to never sink to the classless level of their fans and writers. The lead story on the game does not refer to us as Red wings, but only as the Scum. One of the reasons I love this game is because it has so much more class than the NFL, NBA, or any other pro sport where all players talk about is how much respect they deserve. It’s too bad Chicago’s fans don’t get that. I hope our sport is never represented in the same way Chicago’s fans present themselves. Don’t stupe to their level. By the way—they report the refs lost it for them today—imagine that.
amen to that...
It’s simply amazing looking at how this blog and how 2nd City Hockey bloggers take a loss. Refs screwed us! they say.
Ladies and Gentlefoulmouths, welcome to our plight
every fan base has some of those useless trolls
Including Detroit – but it’s a different matter if the bloggers themselves are so disrespectful.
I know I try to act the same way I would to someone’s face, if for no other reason than politeness on the internet confuses a lot of people. It’s kind of like the saying “forgive your enemies – it drives them crazy.” :)
If they hadn’t given up five unanswered goals they would have been fine, regardless of the officials. It’s still a young team, and I think a little prone to unraveling.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
You should head over to A2Y
Chicago is usually referred to as “Little Brother”
Nashville…“Bubba”
St. Louis….BBBB … Bitter Bitch Baby Blues or something like that
Yeah. We 19 are a classy bunch. :)
hee hee
Every fan needs someplace to let their dark side run free once in a while – I just don’t expect that as much from an SBN blog (but maybe that is colored by the particular SBN blogs I tend to visit – they have been very polite). I avoid the cesspools of comments at places like yahoo and newspaper sites like the plague – there may be some insight, but it’s buried under nonsense.
I’m not much for visiting opposing blogs myself – I don’t go there to taunt, and I find myself either getting angry at them for what they say (to absolutely no purpose whatsoever) or starting to like them, and it’s harder to take joy in another team losing when fans you have grown to like are going to be upset by it. That’s what I’ve found for me, anyway.
It’s a big reason why I don’t follow the Battle of California any more. I like the writing, it’s very funny, but I want to feel free to despise the Ducks no matter how much their losing annoys Earl Sleek, and I want to cheer against the Kings without knowing that the losses upset RudyKelly. If I like fans of a team, it diminishes the joy I take in the team losing.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
Chicago fans really don’t care about their own team. The only thing they care about is their hatred for Detroit. The even chant Detroit sucks at the UC when they play other teams. Where were all of their fans when they sucked the last 10 years. The only games they would sell out were the Red Wing games. Mostly because of the many Wings fans their, but also because all they cared about was hating Detroit.
9-7=2
Predators lost, letting the Red Wings pull within 1 of 7th.
Flames won, remaining 1 point behind 8th.
Did anyone else notice...
that we seem to have to sacrifice a player to beat the Hawks? Our last win over Chi-town was, of course, the game where Mule got trampled, and now Bert’s out, who knows for how long. Just hope it doesn’t take that in the playoffs…we’ll have to call up all of the Griffins…
P.S. Read the Chicago SB blog, and wow, are they a bunch of angry, classless people! To any Hawks fans…your guys played well in the first and third, we just OWNED the second. You have goaltending issues, we have goaltending issues. Can’t we all just get along?
Immortal love life advice - "Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score."
Eh Griffins aren't making the playoffs anyways...
Last in their division :X
ericsson
2nd straight scratch. Hmm. Lilja hasn’t thrlled me yet, but given how poorly Ericsson has played this year I think him sitting while Andreas plays is ok.
If the hockey gods give us Olympic Rafalski back can they also give us last year’s Playoff Ericsson back too, hmmm?
Patty cake
ooh baby, pavel’s steal from patrick kane and subsequent breakaway goal was precious! probably the most satisfying goal i’ve seen all season =).
Filpula
That’s the second time I’ve seen Flip make that pass (and I think to Lebda both times) and have it end up in the back of the net. The first was back in his first or second game back from injury and I just chalked it up to rink rust. Now I’m not so sure.
Hopefully Babcock beats it into his head that you don’t go up the middle from behind your own net.
Pierre Macguire
I love the fact that Pierre actually claims that no contact was made between Byfuglien and Howard. They were right that his feet never entered the crease, but his rear end totally bumped Howard. Quite obviously. Whether that affected Howard’s ability to play the puck, I don’t know, but he definitely made contact. But then, no interference. Holmstrom however, gets pushed into the goalie and gets an interference call. Yeah, those stupid biased refs. The refs totally were in favor of Detroit. They gave the Wings a power play. How could they?? How dare they call Duncan Keith for an obvious high sticking penalty.
Eat it Chicago. BTW… Patrick Kane is totally overrated and over hyped. Sure the guy has some offensive skills, but he makes some really dumb plays. Datsyuk will school his @ss anyday.
i find it very ironic that we are called scum at 2nd CH
by a fan base like they have over there. I dont think ive heard so many excuses as to why they lost yesterday. Not sure if they realize that EVERY game is 3 periods. it doesnt matter how well you play in a 1st or 3rd period, just so happens there was a 2nd period too, and yeah it helped that chicago gave a couple turnovers, and “if it werent from those turnovers then they wouldnt have won”. thats bullshit. if i recall half, maybe more than that of chicagos goals were from detroit turnovers. THAT IS PART OF THE GAME. It doesnt matter who scored what and when as long as you get that W after 60 mins and the red wings did. They were the better team. plain and simple. and i really hope that MOST of that fanbase at 2nd CH, some were actually respectable, does not reflect how blackhawks fans really are, because thats just disgraceful.
now i for one hate talking shit, especially to a team that is better than us, at least standings wise, but right now they are probably better than us on the ice too. i have not seen that much arrogance over a team that has been the bottom feeders of the division for how long? and after a good season, which might i add ended with NOTHING, and another good season this year, which they STILL have to prove themselves in the playoffs, if i didnt know any better they were the best team in the league….. Oh wait, last time i checked the standings they werent even the best team in the conference.
Regardless of what happens this season, whether we make the playoffs or not. (if we do i really hope we play chicago first round) I am glad to support an organization as “classless” as the red wings and to have a “scum” fan base like everyone here is, instead of those perfect, respectful, intelligent hawks fans over at 2nd CH
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the yahoo board
is covered in classlees , sh** talking wings fans. Loud annoying ones. But this board is nice and calm
yeah ive seen that
i tried yahoo and espn but it was just full or shit talking arrogant wings/ dolphins fans that had no reflection of what im about.
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hawks fan
ive never refered too you guys as scum. but the game yesterday was a joke on both ends. as for excuses ive heard " when we get healty" too much from wings fans. the wings do usually get the shaft from the refs like the “goal” in the shootout against dallas.but saturdays game was a cluster f*** of no calls and bad calls against both teams
everyone here is for the most part respectful
every now and then you get some none regulars that come in here bashing other teams, but casey does a good job keeping everyone as respectful to other teams as possible. but yeah we definitely used that excuse a lot but my opinion (maybe a little bias) that it was a pretty good excuse. when your playing almost more ahl players then regulars because of injuries its pretty bad. i think there was a stretch of games where we lost three players in three straight games. but anyways. i didnt catch some of the game yesterday but from what i seen the refs were pretty shitty, they usually are. the no goal was the obvious one, game changer in my opinion but thats how things go, some teams get breaks some teams dont. i rarely every blame the refs for us losing the game. maybe the anaheim game in the playoffs but thats really all i can remember….fuck brad watson. most of the people here talk shit about the refs but never blame them to why we lost
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Injuries are a legitimate excuse when the only team with more man-games lost is Edmonton. Without so many injuries the team would have been different all year – that’s a plain fact, and anyone who denies it is missing out on reality.
And the officiating is horrible every single game in the NHL. Again, just fact. It sucks, it’s bush league, and I think it makes the sport look third rate at best in terms of attracting new fans when this is the best they can do and if this was the typical behaviour in other sports something would be done more than shrugging and mumbling “it’s the same for both teams.” Pure b.s.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
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