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How can anything top last season's opener?!

I mean seriously.  What a great day to be a Red Wings fan.  After waiting through an incredibly long off-season following our 5 game series with San Jose, we were treated to our greatest current rival (IMO) the Anaheim Ducks for the home opener.  (I consider them our greatest rival just due to the sheer animosity, combined with recent playoff series against them.  Obviously arguments can be made for and against...perhaps in a different post).

Just to recap the game.  4-0 win.  On home Ice.  

The goal scorers?  Started with Franzen...the guy we all had hopes would be our 40-50 goal scorer.  Feels good. 

What's that...Mike Modano!?  Yes.  He scored in his first game in Red and White and it looked like it was gonna be a fantastic year.

Pav.  No slow start this year.  Love when your big time players show up big.

And then Cleary.  Secondary goal scoring will be alive and well!

And then to top it off...my favorite moment of the entire year, happened on the first game of the season.  Datsyuk lighting up Corey Perry.  OK maybe he didn't light him up, but it sure fell like it.

And of course, Jimmy gets the shutout.  

What a game.  Probably one of my favorites of all time...and I think it's largely because it was such a great emotionally awesome victory after being without hockey for 4 months.

Let's hope Friday night in Ottawa can possibly equal 1/10th the satisfaction.  Sooooo pumped that hockey's back!

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Friday night… in DETROIT… against OTTAWA. Yeah, I think it’s going to be a special night. I’m super excited to see how everyone reacts and if Babs gets some solid lines going. Anyone know what the lines will be yet???

Get your Al the Octopus

byjenniferleigh.etsy.com/

by Josh Howard on Oct 6, 2011 7:09 AM CDT reply actions  

I believe that they will mostly be

Flip – Z – Franzen
Huds – Datsyuk – Cleary
Abdelkader – Helm – Bertuzzi
Eaves – Miller – Holmstrom
Emmerton
Brunnstrom

Lidstrom – Whitey
Stuart – Kronwall
Error – Kindl

Howard

Now, with a back to back Fri/Sat I am sure we will see some different faces on Saturday. Also, Babcock will always try new things, so those lines probably mean very little.

by PavelsBabbles on Oct 6, 2011 8:16 AM CDT reply actions  

That Abby-Helm-Bert line just sounds like a thing of beauty to me.

Consequences Schmonsequences.

by traylor1 on Oct 6, 2011 5:32 PM CDT up reply actions  

you’re not wrong there – I had forgotten, it was awesome. Modano scoring on his first shot in Detroit was crazy – I know I immediately thought Stanley Cup….too bad it didn’t work out better.

Let’s hope tomorrow night goes just as well.

by Kendal on Oct 6, 2011 11:28 AM CDT reply actions  

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