Franzen With 4 Goals In 7-1 Red Wings Rout Of Sharks
by joehass on May 6, 2010 10:04 PM CDT
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PrintWell, that was emphatic.
Facing their first playoff sweep in eight years, the Detroit Red Wings rode the blisteringly hot stick of Johan Franzen to a 7-1 beatdown of the San Jose Sharks in Game Four of a Western Conference Semifinal.
Franzen had four goals and two assists, including a natural hat trick in the first period in a span of 3:26. That was part of a five-goal first period for the Red Wings that killed any chance San Jose had of wrapping up business tonight.
The win extends the series to a fifth game back in San Jose on Saturday, but still leaves the Sharks with a 3-1 series lead.
Todd Bertuzzi, Valtteri Filppula and Brian Rafalski also scored for the Red Wings. Dany Heatley was the sole mark on Jimmy Howard's 28-save night.
Sharks goaltender Evgeni Nabokov got the gate at the end of the first period, not necessarily because he was responsible for the defecit as much as out of sympathy. For no one seemed able to stop Franzen except Bertuzzi's leg.
It was that leg that deflected Franzen's shot with Dwight Helminen in the penalty box, off a set up by Henrik Zetterberg. Franzen skated in a little bit and fired from the top of the circle, bouncing the puck off Bertuzzi's leg and into the net, earning Bertuzzi his second goal of the playoffs.
Two minutes later, the Wings would score again. Again, it was Zetterberg starting the play, but this time it was his shot that was blocked by Nabokov, who was tied up by Franzen. The puck rolled to the left of Nabokov, and Franzen backhanded it into the net. with Bertuzzi getting the other assist.
Franzen would strike again three minutes later. Nicklas Lidstrom fired the puck up to Bertuzzi. He set up Franzen with a backhand, and Franzen would take the wrister past Nabokov top shelf.
Finally, Franzen would take a blast from 20 feet out. Nabokov made the save, but the puck rolled over to his right, when Franzen found it to bury it just 33 seconds later for his natural hat trick.
Then, with 70 seconds left in the period, Filppula had the puck behind and to the right of Nabokov. He surrendered the puck to Douglas Murray. Murray tried to clear the puck, but instead it went off Dan Boyle and past Nabokov. Filppula picked up his fourth goal as the last Red Wing to touch the puck, with Tomas Holmstrom and Pavel Datsyuk getting helpers.
In the second period, with Helminen once again sitting for two minutes, Franzen sent a pass up ice to Bertuzzi. Bertuzzi made a great cross-ice pass to a streaking Rafalski, who fired it past back-up goaltender Thomas Greiss to get his second of the playoffs.
San Jose would finally crack the scoreboard, though it'd take a five-on-three to make it happen. After it appeared Detroit would be able to kill off the penalty with a Datsyuk clear off a faceoff, Heatley fired a 35-foot shot that simply went through Howard's wickets and into the net for his second of the playoffs. Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau had assists.
In the third period, Franzen would hit again, as Lidstrom fired a shot from the blue line that Franzen would put back to wrap up the scoring, with Zetterberg picking up the second assist.
The third period also saw plenty of chirpiness, as the two teams combined for 17 penalties totaling 64 minutes.
Game five is Saturday night. The Red Wings know the Sharks will be ready. They have to keep it going.
Player of the game: Johan Franzen. Four goals should do nicely, thank you very much.
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looks like i missed a great game.
take it one game at a time. still a slim chance, but if we can come out of SJ with a win, ill feel confident in tying this season.
i just hope we can keep this offense going for the rest of the series.
Affirmative
Tried to drag down Lidstrom by the jersey, that whiney-ass pissy little punk.
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by Baroque on May 7, 2010 5:23 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
just caught up
(saw the first and part of the second period) and so now I’m on the third period and holy crap Thornton is a punk.
by Casey Richey on May 6, 2010 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
i missed the first 6 goals
looks like i should not watch more
TULO = 2010 MVP!
Troy Tulowitzki: "When people think of the Rockies, I want them to think of a winning organization."
LETS GO WINGS!
I wasnt going
to, however i watched 73 games this year… i thought i owed it to myself and my loyalty to watch till the end.
This game meant nothing
The 7-1 score was essentially meaningless. Right now, all that the game did was extend the series another game. The really important game is the next one: Sharks win and the series ends (same as tonight, but 4 games versus 5 is insignificant), Red Wings win and it will go 7 games.
It’s good that the Red Wings played well tonight. Saturday night, they’ll have a chance to put up the exclamation marks. Or surrender the series.
My bold prediction after game 3 was that if the Red Wings win this series, they will win the Stanley Cup. Though I did say I didn’t think the Wings would go far in the playoffs (based on their play through 4 games in the Coyotes series), which doesn’t bode well for the Wings. I also predicted that the Sharks would not get past this series after knowing the Sharks would face the winner of the Coyotes series. Can both teams lose?
meaningless unless
Franzen goes on a scoring rampage. Then it’s the “turning point” of the playoffs.
I don't know about "meaningless"...
…considering it WAS an elimination game.
But the score is meaningless, that I’ll agree with. The only difference between a 3-1 win and a 7-1 win is the attitudes in the next game. The Wings will have a bit more confidence (good) and the Sharks will be pretty darn pissed off, and at home (bad).
I do hope this is a sign of Franzen getting hot. Remember the run in the playoffs he was having a few years ago before he got injured? If he gets on a run like that again, watch out.
No matter what, game 5 is going to be a TOUGH game to win in the tank…
by The BBQ Chicken Madness on May 7, 2010 8:34 AM CDT up reply actions
absolutely
the score boosted our confidence, but it evens out. the shark tank is supposed to be the toughest place to play for away teams.
Woo!
Was out but checked the score incessantly all night. I get home and the DVR didn’t record the video. Had to $4.99 to watch the replay on HockeyStreams. I was not missing this!
Climbing that hill one game at a time
Wings need to win three more games. And this game most definitely will have woken the Sharks up to how dangerous we can be when we play a full, desperate, 60 minute hockey game.
I am even more nervous for Game 5… but am hopefully the Red Wings will give it the same effort and come out with a victory!
Lets Go Wings
win this Game 5 and then they will be shaking in there boots and saying oh no here we go again and feeling the heat…get that win in the tank Saturday and we are coming back and winning this series
TULO = 2010 MVP!
Troy Tulowitzki: "When people think of the Rockies, I want them to think of a winning organization."
LETS GO WINGS!
This was the Wings team we saw against PHX in games 4 and 7
If they bring it again next game, we definitely have a series.
It was a much closer outcome...
… but the guys were all-in for the full 60 min. They’re hard to beat when they play like that.
by quasi-dynasty on May 7, 2010 7:20 AM CDT up reply actions
I hope not
Those games were brief flashes of what this team can be. I hope this game was the light finally coming on after flickering for a while.
Thanks to dumbass VS., I only got to see the third period. However…it was still an effing great game. Great to see Franzen going. Even if the Wings don’t come back, it’ll give him some confidence for next season.
I bet you the Wings are done celebrating by now, and they should be.
By the way, props to Ericsson for playing 27:00 ish minutes. Pretty solid too.
Look at the bright side...
…if it was on ESPN, you probably wouldn’t have seen any hockey at all. They would have bumped it for the NBA for sure.
I’m on the east coast, so I got the Pens game as well. Man did I jump out of my chair when I saw the game break on the Wings game!
by The BBQ Chicken Madness on May 7, 2010 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions
VS
VS is a joke. I’m a Hawks fan (live in Chicago) but I would at least like to watch the Western conference games to look how our potential competition is doing. This “lets show every minute of every Pens game because we love Cindy Crosby” has got to stop. This is the midwest, can we please get the midwest games? Thanks. I really hate the east coast media bias.
Which makes it all the better
when Pittsburgh loses. I hope Montreal wins that series, I’m glad they at least extended it to 6 games.
FRANZEN SMASH
Holy fuck I wish the Canucks had him. Congrats on the win today, Wings fans.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on May 7, 2010 1:50 AM CDT reply actions
Good point.
But I would like the pair.
"But yeah…like CC…I harbour no ill will." - VancityDan
by Chuckles Canuckles on May 7, 2010 1:24 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm scared
Now that it’s going back to San Jose because the officiating from the two games there so far was disgusting
I really wish
That my internet hadn’t chosen this week to crap out. I missed my WiM friends! :(
Thank goodness for twitter so at least I could chat on my phone. :)
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
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by Baroque on May 7, 2010 5:26 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
Franzen is the type
who has a good game and then gets on a tear for several games. Remember when he beasted on Colorado (if I recall correctly) and had back-to-back hat tricks? Expect to see more from Franzen Saturday night.
I picked the right game to attend. I tried to get a “Release the Kraken” chant going but I guess nobody was on that level with me lol.
I know right
where does that make sense? I think Sj and their fans should note that to themselves and realize how lucky they have been to be up 3-0.
Horrible statistic
that carries no weight. Just because the Wings blowout the Sharks 7-1 pushing their goal total to 16, it doesn’t mean they deserve to be winning or tied in the series. Although I do think it should be tied, but my argument has nothing to do with goal totals. The wings carried a 3-1 lead in the third period of game 3, that lead should not have been given up. Penalties have been a problem, but the wings slow defense and poor neutral zone play has been the issue. Most of that was resolved in game 4. There were still some giveaways in the defensive zone, but they were able to recover well.
by RVB on May 7, 2010 8:46 AM CDT up reply actions
That statistic
didnt say who should be winning the series, nor did say how well or shitty the wings doing. I think it was meant to be a look at the irony in scoring more goals. Regardless of how you look at it has been a close series of Any statistic. And the series shouldnt be tied…. we should be up 3-1. Hellish 2nd game you cant forget either.. 3-2 lead in the 3rd.
A few bounces, a few calls the other way and the Wings are getting a nice long rest while the Nucks and Hawks beat each other up.
Instead, we look to be the 3rd team to come back from down 3-0.
I know
thats why is so nauseating to think about. I think the wings are truly the better team. I mean think about it, i know we have those brain shits.. but when they do have them they usually bounce back better then anyone else. When we went down 3-0 in game one we fought back. If it wasnt for the BS 5-3 that their so prone too who knows where that game would have gone. We know what happen game 2.. and 3… and i feel confident if we win saturday.
Game 5
Should be slanted HEAVILY against Detroit. SJ should come out on fire for being at home, chance to eliminate, and after getting embarrassed. I still say Detroit’s chance to win the series is in the 0-.01% range, but if SJ comes out rattled in game 5, Detroit could swing it into a 7 gamer. Still unlikely though.
They played a classic road game in game 2.
1) Withstand the home team’s early surge,
2) score a couple to quiet the crowd,
3) take a lead or tie going into the third.
The penalties in the third in game 2 then swung the game back the other way.
If they follow that script (minus the penalties) in game 5 they’ve got a chance; the Sharkies will be gripping the sticks pretty tight in that situation in front of a home crowd.
Game 3 was similar, but outright mistakes did them in. Another showing like that and…
by quasi-dynasty on May 7, 2010 8:04 AM CDT up reply actions
of COURSE it's unlikely
Honestly, it was unlikely that Detroit would win the series in the first place. San Jose is the 1 seed for a reason, eventually almost every team known for choking manages to win, they had a much easier series in the first round, Detroit has a less experienced goaltender…
Doesn’t mean that it’s impossible just because it’s unlikely. Only thing to do is play it out, give their best effort, and see what happens.
I wouldn’t put Detroit’s chances of winning the series at this point at more than 10% but they aren’t some arbitrarily tiny decimal percentage. The Wings have played well on the road, the previous games have (mostly) been close … The chances aren’t hopeless that they can push the series to a 6th game.
"While there's life, there's hope." --Cicero
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by Baroque on May 7, 2010 8:18 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
50% chance to win game 5, close to 100% to win game 6, 50% chance to win game 7 = 25% chance to win the series
The Sharks are still sitting pretty on a 3-1 lead, and while they may be upset with such a lopsided score, the Red Wings are still against the wall and now have pressure to repeat offensively.
If everyone believed the Sharks could win 4 straight to sweep the Wings, why is it so hard to believe the Wings could win 4 straight to “sweep” the Sharks?
by Robocop on May 7, 2010 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
BOOM
statistic’d!
I might lower the game 6 chances to 75%…while i too believe it will be heavily slanted in Detroit’s favor (should it come to that point), you have to believe the Sharks won’t go away so easily (think back to the Dallas series in 2008, where Detroit won on the road in game 6). Also, i am of the mindset that game 5 will be the toughest of the four for the Wings to win, so let’s lower that to a 25% chance of winning game 5.
With my numbers, thats only roughly a 10% chance at winning the series. Not very inspiring.
If I include my belief in the Wings winning game 4 before tyesterday transpired, I would have pegged that one at about 50% (because even though it’s at home, it was a tossup as to whether the Wings would give up/be screwed by the refs/Sharks would close out the series or if they’d come out angry and really take it to the Sharks like they did). So, before game 4 occurred, that’s a roughly 5% chance of winning the series by my completely made up numbers. When make-up numbers turn out bad, you know how much of a miracle this would be should the Wings come back.
So yes, I am still being realistic here…nothing in my mind has changed yet about teh Wings’ predicament.
HOWEVER, should the wings win game 5, by my made-up numbers they now have nearly 40% chance of winning the series, which to me translates to “A New Hope”.
Ok, I’m done being a nerd now :-P
Im thinking
about driving 6 hours back to D town to watch the game at the viewing parties. I feel if i go up there and we win.. party hard.. and if we lose, i can sulk with the other some thousand wings fans. Anyone else going to viewing parties… The post? hockeytown Cafe?
I was at Hockeytown for PHX game 2
That was a great time. The only downside was that I was feeling so good I bought… well, I have no idea how many rounds for these chicks from Traverse City next to me at the bar.
by quasi-dynasty on May 7, 2010 10:26 AM CDT up reply actions
happily eating my words... for now
Woah. Some of you may remember my excessively pessimistic predictions over the last few days, but in my defense I did predict that if we won, it’d be by a 2+ margin and boy howdy was it ever.
Both because of the performance and what was at stake, this reminded me a lot of last series’ Game 7. If the Wings can KEEP playing like this when their season is on the line they might be okay, but I’d really prefer they had a playoff run that wasn’t consistently liable to give me a stroke.
I still worry about us in tight games, and (yes) I still worry about us at home. If we’ve gotten all of our crappy home games out of the way I can live with that, but aside from this and I think game 4 of the last series, we haven’t really put together many solid outings at home recently. I don’t know if its an attitude or a fatigue thing or whatever, but I’m still dubious because the last time we absolutely waxed someone at home (PIT 5-0 in last year’s game 5) both games we played after were decidedly flat.
At any rate, I’m glad we didn’t get swept. After an effort like that I like to think the Wings will bring it again for Game 5. They’ve played pretty well all series (and kept games 1-3 close despite terrible officiating), and last night seemed to suggest there’s still some gas in the tank. Hopefully this effort will reinvigorate us to the point where we can walk out of Game 5 with our season still intact.
No Limits.
Agree, round 1 game 4 was a near-perfect playoff game
I was at the Joe for that one. Crisply played, pretty much mistake-free, then they broke it open late. Jimmy was a wall. I’ll take another few of those.
by quasi-dynasty on May 7, 2010 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions
If Franzen didn't score
It would have been another 3 goal game by the Wings. Question is whether the Sharks would have scored 4 again.
He was likely kept out the rest of yesterday as a precaution. If the game hadn’t been what it was, I’m sure he would have returned. But they were up 3-0 (4-0?) before he went out, so what’s the point of giving Jumbo Joe a chance to target the charley horse.
yeah
but I read that as more general praise of his work ethic. Either way, whatever he hurt he didn’t hurt badly enough to keep him off the ice. I’ve ragged on Stuart a few times (who hasn’t?) but I think at this point we need pretty much every big body we can get.
No Limits.
i had a dream about an anteater last night
it’s a sign from Yzerman.
As much as it pains me...
the wins seem to come when I don’t watch. I flipped on the tv during game 3 OT and 30 seconds later, sharks scored. I will abstain this saturday as I did on tuesday. Only 9 more periods of textbook hockey to go, one shift at a time.
Please dont watch lol
I got 12 numbers above my desk at work.. i cross one out for each period we win… one at time. 3 down 9 to go!
Hats off to Franzen
nice job now its one game at a time, maybe the refs can get off SJ sticks and let us play.
Well Done Detroit
Sharks fan here, no doubt your boys put on a clinic. Franzen had a hell of a game, can’t take anything away from him (like you guys said, only Bertuzzi can do that). And while it’s much easier to have a good game when spotted a 5 goal lead halfway to the 3rd, Howard had himself a good game himself. Scary thing is, Datsyuk is the guy that scares me the most and he didn’t do much last night. Just like the Sharks and Joe Pavelski, if the Wings can get 1/4 of this production from Franzen with their stars producing this is gonna be a series.
As far as Joe Thornton, I can gaurauntee there are guys on the Wings that would pull the exact same stuff if the Wings were down 7-1. Where some of the people on the boards got this “dirty player” and arrogant rep on him, I don’t know. While I can’t defend some players that went through the Sharks’ system (coughBryan Marchmentcough), calling Joe dirty cause of his misconduct last night is convicting on sparse evidence.
Oh well, passions flame during the playoffs. Sharks fans really respect the Wings, we know the series ain’t over. Here is to a great game Saturday!
Ditto
And as far as Pav..the FSDetroit guys last night commented on Datsyuk and “only having one assist in a game where the Wings get seven goals”. Like they said, hopefully he’ll get miffed by it and decide to get his share on Saturday.
Should be a doozy for sure.
Don't Panic!
Respect...
We still plan to knock you out of course, but failing that, here’s to McLellen and the RW v2.0, er Sharks crushing the Hawks if it comes to it. I honestly couldn’t care less about the Hawk’s players, pretty much complete ambivalence, but after living in Chicago and hearing “Detroit Sucks” during regular season games against the Wild (wtf?), other than a Crosby repeat, the last thing I would want to see is that fanbase winning anything. The problem: no respect. Props for some hockey knowledge on SCH, but mostly a bunch of bitter haters.
Oh, and Thornton was ok until the after the whistle collar grab on Lidstrom. Dirty, no, but pretty weaselly.
by quasi-dynasty on May 7, 2010 2:12 PM CDT up reply actions
No doubt
I didn’t get to see the game (long story, but if there was one to miss, it was this one), but everything I’ve read said Thornton was in the wrong and the refs were right to kick him out of the game, a moment of frusteration for an otherwise stright player. Just trying to stand up for a guy that has been a stand up guy for the San Jose organization. I usually reserve “scum” and infliction of pain on guys like Ben Rothlisberger and Leonard Little.
And as far as the Sharks being Red Wings V2.0, I have no problem with that. Winning hockey is winning hockey. The fact that the Red Wings figured it out first doesn’t change that it is effective hockey. The Shark’s certainly add their own aspects (mainly size to retain puck possession, rather than stickhandling), but in the end, it is an effective way to play the game as the Wings have shown.
I have a friend that lives in Chicago now and he’s been to a few Hawks games. He said once they were playing the Blues and they were chanting “Detroit Sucks”. I’m convinced that the Hawks fans really don’t care about the Hawks, just that the Wings lose. All those years the Hawks sucked, the only games they would sell out were the games they played the Wings. Sure, a lot of Wings fans would go to the game, but definitely more Chicago fans would come out just to taunt and talk trash. I went to quite a few games, and you would have to watch your back. Not a place to take your kids, that’s for sure.
Yeah, I live there now. I’ve seen the Wings at the UC quite a few times in the last six or seven years. In the 02-03 (?) timeframe, I saw them put such a pasting on the Hawks that the home crowd actually started laughing – that was definitely a first. They had disinterested ownership for a long time and it showed on the ice, so there’s a lot of pent up frustration. They so desperately want a rivalry with us, but from my perspective they’re just the latest incarnation of the Blues, Stars, Preds, etc. etc. – decent to good teams that have put together a couple good seasons, even won a Cup in the Stars case. Maybe after they win a Cup or two themselves after knocking out the Wings it’ll grow into something, but they’ve got miles to go before they approach the level of the 1996-2002 Avs on the Wings’ radar screens.
by quasi-dynasty on May 8, 2010 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions
I have to say, I was very impressed with how well Z, Bert and Franzen seemed to be playing together.
And I thought the Z’Flip’Tuzzi line was good. So what the heck do we call this line now… Mule’Z’Tuzzi, sounds kind of wrong somehow.
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