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Franzen With 4 Goals In 7-1 Red Wings Rout Of Sharks

Well, 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

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Wings Give Up Two-Goal Lead, Lose 4-3

Suddenly, the Detroit Red Wings are looking like the middle-of-winter Red Wings. And one more performance like Tuesday night, and it'll be the summer Red Wings. The San Jose Sharks scored a pair of goals in the third period to tie the game, then Patrick Marleau scored on a breakaway

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Wings Blow Out Phoenix In Game 7 6-1, Advance To Play San Jose

Entering tonight's game, there was a sense that all six games in this Western Conference Quarterfinal were tight, even if the final score didn't show it. In Game 7, the final score did not reflect how badly the Detroit Red Wings beat down the Phoenix Coyotes. A pair of goals

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Game Thread Overflow: Red Wings vs. Coyotes Game 7

From 0-0 to 4-1 in a single period? Yeah, we're gonna need another boat. Comment away below.

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Wings Lose 5-2, Give Up 3 Power Play Goals

The Detroit Red Wings picked a bad afternoon to have their penalty kill disappear. In a stunning repeat of Game 1, the Phoenix Coyotes cashed in on three power plays, plus a short-handed goal during a 4:50-stretch of power play for the Red Wings. That lead to a 5-2

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Three Goals In Third Gives Wings 4-1 Win, 3-2 Series Lead

It is not considered ideal for a team to only play solid hockey for 10 minutes of a 60-minute hockey game. That being said, if you're going to do that, it helps for two other things to happen: * You score three goals in that span. * You have a goaltender who

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Hank's Pair, Howard's 29-Save Shutout Ties Series At 2

If you want to point to a potential turning point in this Western Conference Quarterfinal, look at a 3:48 stretch in the third period of Tuesday night's Game 4. With Johan Franzen already in the penalty box for a questionable roughing call that had him incensed all the way

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Wings Win 3-2 In OT, Will Face Phoenix

A game that was not by any stretch of the imagination ended with another wild finish, two-points, and a date with the Phoenix Coyotes. Brad Stuart scored 3:11 into overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. With that win, the Red Wings,

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Wings Score 3 In 1:16, Beat Columbus 4-3

For a game that was meaningless in terms of making the playoffs, the Detroit Red Wings regular season home finale had more than enough excitement to make up for it. After two periods that saw the Red Wings seemingly without effort or luck against Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Steve Mason,

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Osgood Gives Up Four In Loss To Flyers

Just 12 seconds into Sunday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers, a neutral-zone turnover led to the puck being on Dan Carcillo's stick to the right of Chris Osgood. He fired what appeared to be a harmless shot towards Osgood, starting his first game since January 27. Osgood couldn't handle it.

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Bertuzzi Foot Goal Gives Wings 3-2 Win

The puck got past Columbus Blue Jackets' goaltender Steve Mason and into the net off Todd Bertuzzi's foot, only to be quickly waved off as being kicked in. But the Roger Nielson Video Room in Toronto called for a review. After a season in which it seemed the Detroit Red

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Filppula's Pair Leads Red Wings Over Blues 4-2

There was concern that the Detroit Red Wings may not have had enough time to recharge after their emotional win against the Pittsburgh Penguins Monday with the St. Louis Blues coming into town. The Blues, after all, had gone 4-0-1 in the first five meetings against the Red Wings this

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Rafalski OT Goal Gives Wings 3-2 Win

And...breathe. The Red Wings squandered a two-goal lead to the Buffalo Sabres, and as the game went to overtime, there was a definite sense of fear that, while the team had earned a point against a non-conference opponent, that team needed to get two points. Fortunately, it took them

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Pair of Franzen Goals Leads To 5-1 Victory Over Wild

You know your team had a good night when the guy with a pair of goals has to settle for second star of the game. Johan Franzen's sixth and seventh of the season fell behind Henrik Zetterberg's goal and two assists as the Detroit Red Wings played a full sixty

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Wings Squander 2-1 Lead, Fall Out Of Playoffs With 4-2 Loss

The Detroit Red Wings needed to be able to pad out their single-point lead tonight when they faced the team right behind them, the Calgary Flames. And with a 2-1 lead going into the third period, it seemed like Detroit would take advantage of the situtation. But a 91-second stretch

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Datsyuk Nets Goal, Assist In 4-1 Victory Over Senators

To say the Detroit Red Wings needed a win going into the Olympic break, facing a four-game losing streak is an undertstatement. What they got was one of the best performances of the season against one of the best teams in the NHL; the kind of performance that inevitably maddens

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Red Wings Lose Fourth Straight 3-2 To Sharks

The Detroit Red Wings playoff chances have plunged over the last two weeks. Tonight, against the best team in the NHL, they had a chance to stop the slide. But they instead faced a goaltender in Evgeni Nabokov who stopped 50 of 52 shots. A bad defensive setup lead to

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Disaster In LA: Wings Lose Three-Goal Lead, Game, And Three Players

At the end of the first period, the Detroit Red Wings had a 3-0 lead, having played one of the best periods of hockey they'd play all year featuring a pair of goals by Henrik Zetterberg. It may well have been the last happy moment for a while. The Los

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Red Wings Take 47 Shots But Lose 3-1 To Hiller and Ducks

Nights like this are nights when those losses in October and November sting even more. On the back end of back-to-back nights, after a great comeback against the best team in the NHL, the Red Wings faced a goaltender in Jonas Hiller that was nearly perfect. The Red Wings had

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Four Unanswered Goals Charge Wings Over Sharks

In our game thread for the Red Wings matchup against the Sharks on Tuesday night, the question was raised as to when Detroit can stop playing the injury card. The majority of our posters said that tonight, with Tomas Holmstrom coming back, was the night. And after the Red Wings

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Howard's 46 Saves Not Enough: Wings Lose 2-1 In Shootout

You can look at the outcome of Sunday's matinee against the Pittsburgh Penguins in a couple ways: The Red Wings took on one of the better teams in the Eastern Conference and managed to ride a blisteringly hot goaltender in Jimmy Howard (who made 46 saves) to earn a needed

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Datsuyk's Two Goals For Naught As Wild Beat Red Wings 5-2

Mike Babcock called a mandatory player meeting for this morning in St. Paul, coming off the Red Wings distressing 5-4 overtime loss to Phoenix. Whatever happened, it didn't help. The Red Wings were manhandled by the Minnesota Wild 5-2, in a game that wasn't as close as the score would

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Two Notes From Last Night's Red Wings Telecast

We tend not to make much mention about the actual broadcasts of Red Wings games around here, but a couple things came to mind. During our live blog last night, someone noted that Fox Sports West was showing footage of a person in the rafters above Joe Louis Arena. Those

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Red Wings give up two-goal lead, lose to Kings 3-2

For the third time in four games, the Red Wings squandered a two-goal lead. This time, they couldn't even rescue a point out of it. This time, it was a two-goal lead in the first period that they squandered, as the Los Angeles Kings had three in a row to

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