Morning Skate: Home Sweet Joe
by JeffHancock41 on Feb 8, 2012 8:37 AM CST
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Which Red Wings team is going to show up tonight? (Graham...CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!)
Hopefully it's the team that dominates the hell out of it's opponents at Joe Louis Arena because the Wings are riding a 17-game home win streak and I'd like to see that continue.
That's not a typo either
Seventeen straight wins at home. Seventeen freakin' wins-in-a-row at home.
Think about that for a moment.
The Red Wings haven't lost at Joe Louis Arena since dropping a 4-1 contest to the Flames on November 3, 2011. It's been THREE MONTHS since they lost at home! That loss to Calgary was the final game of a three game home skid by the Wings. Before losing on November 3, they dropped the two previous home games 2-1 in OT to the Wild and 4-2 to the Sharks.
Since then it's been all wins, baby.
It's been a run of historic proportions. The Wings have already broken their previous home win streak of 14 games. The old record was set during the 1964-65 season by the likes of Gordie Howe, Alex Delvecchio, Norm Ullman and Ted Lindsay. This season the streak has been led by the usual names of Pavel Datsyuk and Nicklas Lidstrom and guys who have taken the next step this season like Jimmy Howard and Valtteri Filppula.
However, it can all slip away rather quickly. The Oilers are a team that's been playing well as of late and just beat the Wings in a shootout last weekend. They could very well come in and do the same tonight. Without Jimmy Howard in net, even with Joey MacDonald playing well, the Wings could struggle. They've been a different team at home, but this will be the first game all season at the Joe that hasn't been started by Howard. It will be interesting to see which Red Wings team shows up.
The pesky Oilers aren't going to just lay down because of the 17 game win streak. They're going to want end the streak. Every team is going to come into the Joe looking to stop the train that is the Wings at home. The Blues and Predators are nipping at the Wings heels. Points are an absolute necessity tonight. Don't take the Oilers lightly. Play some defense against that Sam Gagner guy. Bring home the W and add two points to the division, conference and league lead.
Get the job done.
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Check out the expanded in-depth home win streak stats after the jump.
The Expected Lineup
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Johan Franzen -- Pavel Datsyuk -- Todd Bertuzzi
Valtteri Filppula -- Henrik Zetterberg -- Jiri Hudler
Danny Cleary -- Darren Helm -- Drew Miller
Cory Emmerton -- Justin Abdelkader -- Tomas Holmstrom
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Nicklas Lidstrom -- Ian White
Niklas Kronwall -- Brad Stuart
Jonathan Ericsson -- Jakub Kindl
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Joey MacDonald (starting)
Scratches: Jan Mursak and Mike Commodore
Injuries: Patrick Eaves (jaw) and Jimmy Howard (finger)
| OILERS | HOW THEY MATCH UP | RED WINGS |
| 21-27-5 (47 pts; 14th in West) | Record | 35-17-2 (72 pts; 1st in NHL) |
| 2.60 (16th in NHL) | Goals Per Game | 3.07 (5th in NHL) |
| 2.91 (24th) | Goals Against Per Game | 2.37 (6th) |
| 22.0% (2nd) | Power Play % | 17.6% (15th) |
| 83.0% (13th) | Penalty Kill % | 80.0% (25th) |
| Jordan Eberle (24 goals) | Goal Leader | Johan Franzen (20 goals) |
| Jordan Eberle (53 points) | Points Leader | Pavel Datsyuk (54 goals) |
The Red Wings are 55-36-13-11 (W-L-T-OTL) all-time against the Edmonton Oilers franchise.
17- GAME HOME WIN STREAK STATISTICS:
- Goals Per Game: 4.23
- Goals Against Per Game: 1.41
- Overtime Wins: 1
- Shootout Wins: 2
- Shutouts: 4
- Most Goals: 8 (Dec. 17 vs Los Angeles Kings)
- Games with 5 or More Goals: 8
- Most Goals: Johan Franzen (9)
- Most Assists: Pavel Datsyuk (18)
- Most Points: Pavel Datsyuk (23)
- Players Without a Point: Mike Commodore (5 games), Gustav Nyquist (2 games) and Jan Mursak (1 game)
PLAYER STATISTICS DURING 17-GAME HOME WIN STREAK
| GOALS | ASSISTS | POINTS | |
| Datsyuk | 5 | 18 | 23 |
| Filppula | 7 | 13 | 20 |
| Franzen | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| Hudler | 4 | 11 | 15 |
| Lidstrom | 6 | 9 | 15 |
| Zetterberg | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| Bertuzzi | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| Kronwall | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| White | 2 | 11 | 13 |
| Cleary | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Helm | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Holmstrom | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| Miller | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Ericsson | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Kindl | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Stuart | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Abdelkader | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Emmerton | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Conner | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Brunnstrom | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Eaves | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Prediction: The home winning streak will live to see another day. The Wings get revenge for the shootout loss last weekend and win tonight 4-2. Pavel Datsyuk continues his home dominance and is your player of the game.
Let's Go Red Wings.
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i have Firefox 10, and when i sign in with OpenID, i never get to the score predictions, just to the username registration
i switched to Chrome for the score predictions, which is fine with me and actually worked, but i’m just saying that for me in particular, it doesn’t work on Firefox 10.
i think Conklin should get one more short-leash chance to try to re-establish his role as the NHL backup. when he should get that chance, i have no idea.
i’ve got the over/ under at 20.5 games before Jeff forgets to ask the question, “Which Red Wings team is going to show up tonight?”
You wanna tell me that to mah face?!
That's odd....
mine works fine in Firefox 10, but can’t get it to open in IE.
by wingsluver4ever on Feb 8, 2012 8:56 AM CST up reply actions
http://www.hockeycssi.com/predict.prediction/leaguePage?leagueId=1
Try this direct link. If this works in Firefox then the problem is with Third-Party Cookies.
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
Here is Firefox’s help page on cookies. You could either enable third party cookies browser wide or add an exception for hockeycssi.com
that's really weird
it didn’t work this morning, or any other time i used it after registering for the first time (which was in the “Programming Changes” thread or something). i made my prediction for this morning on Chrome then went back to Firefox to figure out what was going on.
i went to the direct link, which worked. (on Firefox.)
then i checked Mozilla Firefox’s help page and looked under my preferences.
this entire time, i’ve allowed Firefox to accept cookie’s from sites, and i’ve also allowed Firefox to accept third-party cookies. in other words, i changed absolutely nothing about the way i run Firefox or about what cookies i accept.
i quit Firefox, which erased my history so that i could start clean. on re-opening Firefox, i went to this thread and logged in with OpenID. it’s working fine now on Firefox on this page. i didn’t do anything, so either you guys did something between this morning and now, or something really weird was happening.
thanks for the help!
You wanna tell me that to mah face?!
Nothing, except for some minor interface things, was changed since this morning. I think the issue may have been something that cropped up between the original post and the successive morning skates that was causing incorrect OpenID hashes to be saved, but that issue should have been resolved well before this morning unless something was being cached by the browser.
Let me know if you have other issues. Also, your old predictions should be loaded at this time.
5-2 Wings, POG Mule
The Mule kicks some butt tonight.
4-3 Wings, Datsyuk
Pavel can’t possibly have two bad games in a row, can he? (Also, there’s no such thing as a jinx.)
With his hand/wrist injury
I expect him to be off his game a little. John Keating said he also won’t take many faceoffs until it heals.
by SlapshotGoal on Feb 8, 2012 12:26 PM CST up reply actions
3-2 Huds gets happy
Missing Jimmy and I’m missing the Red Wings that win.
Thinking the team is, too.
"I'll smile in June."
by Lords of Olympia on Feb 8, 2012 1:02 PM CST reply actions
4-2 Zet PotG
He’s long overdue. I see a sick backhand goal in his near future.
4-2 Wings, Dats PotG
Manager of the Mursak League's Banzai Bananas. BANZAI!!!
I'm still having issues with my computer at work, the setting for which I've have no control over
so, until I can take the time to get it to work on my computer at home, I’m going to refrain from making predictions. Hope to get things worked out over the weekend (if I get the time to spend on the computer).
Follow me on Twitter -- @zfan16
Assuming you are having the same cookie issue as others you should be able to use the below direct link from work.
http://www.hockeycssi.com/predict.prediction/leaguePage?leagueId=1
I was able to enter a prediction and save it
Could you check to be sure the system took it? That way I’ll know that I can use it from work and until I have the chance to fix my home computer. Thanks so much for your help.
Follow me on Twitter -- @zfan16
By the way, my prediction was as follows
6-3 Detroit, with Z as PotG.
Follow me on Twitter -- @zfan16
The score is saved but your potg selection was not. I may need to improve the interface a bit.
When the auto complete drop down menu shows up make sure you actually click on your intended player and the click save.
Thanks
I’ll try to remember to do that for the next game. I can’t get used to using the auto complete feature. It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
Follow me on Twitter -- @zfan16
You can change your prediction at any time (until the game starts). And you can use that same link from home.
If you still are having trouble I can enter it manually.
Went back in
and used the auto save in the drop down menu for tonight’s game and for the Anaheim game. Thanks for all your help. For someone who spent most of high school and some of college using a manual typewriter, all this computer stuff is very confusing. I’m always afraid I’m going to permanently break something if I click on the wrong thing.
Follow me on Twitter -- @zfan16
Its working.
Don’t worry. There is definitely no way to screw anything up.
"For someone who spent most of high school and some of college using a manual typewriter, all this computer stuff is very confusing."
Amen,brother. Amen
I remember the Production Line and the Darkness
6-2 Wings, Hudler PotG
Big night for Hudler. 2 goals, 1 assist. Another day at the office for the 3rd line with a two-goal effort.
Not sure whether the new system is catching my PotG nods; it seems to be saving my goal predictions, but PotG slot is empty…
Looking at the database
I am showing that you selected Hudler for tonight’s game but your potg selection is indeed missing for last Monday.
All of your old predictions should be loaded into the database. Are you not seeing POTG for any of them?
If so let me know what browser you are using.
And...
See my above post. Make sure you actually click on the player’s name in the auto complete drop down and then click save.
Thanks.
I’m not sure whether I’ve been using the drop-down box to select players. I’ll make sure to do so from here on… looks like it was captured today.
Quick question
Are your old prediction showing up?
Did the cookie thing with ie and i can get the prediction box
but my old predictions don’t show up in leaderboard
I remember the Production Line and the Darkness
Getting old predictions is a partially manual process
I’ll work on your’s next.
5-2, Pav
He needs to get going again. 3 points.
Haha, on the team comparison table, I think there's a typo..
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if Pav had 54 goals, but I just don’t think he’s there yet ;)
Don't really care
who the potg is so long as the wings win. get the w, get the points. leave all the dysfunctional bullshit outside the joe before you enter the building.
quick note for the coaching staff…FIX THE GODDAMNED PENALTY KILL AND THE GODDAMNED POWER PLAY UNITS! we as fans are sick of seeing PLENTY of PPGA and NO PPGF!
seriously people, it’s not like they have completely different guys on these special teams units. they are the same guys who skate five on five! what the fuck is so difficult about playing with the man advantadge and actually scoring a goal? it’s not like the teams we let score are either offensive or defensive juggernauts!
maybe the coaches should leave some space for the players to ad lib a bit on the ice. perhaps too much central control. funny how the wings score a lot of their goals five on five, but shorthanded or with the man advantadge…very far and even fewer in between. one word…sad. somehow I can’t believe they’ll suddenly keep the puck out when killing a penalty or suddenly start scoring when having the man advantadge. it’s not a light switch. you just don’t turn it on or turn it off. it’s either you have it or you don’t.
and without jimmy in net, considering who the options are, it’s becoming a less then wonderful two or so weeks. take into consideration how close the standings are and i guarantee they’re gonna get waaaaaaayyyyyyyyy closer. points are of a premium and either the guys who’ve been drifting around not doing a helluva lot pick up their games and be ready to battle their asses off or just let uncle kenny know you don’t want to be where you are. seriously. not kidding. tired of seeing such a lack of effort. u guys have dream jobs and you come across as not giving a damn.
"Blood washes off, brusies go away, bones do heal, scars indicate character, pain is only temporary, but victory will last FOREVER!"
Hopefully we won't be seeing this tonight
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we'll be seeing that win or lose
You wanna tell me that to mah face?!
haha gives me chills.
Hey guys! I found some marbles!!
by Captain Marbles on Feb 8, 2012 4:28 PM CST up reply actions
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