Category: Goal Analysis

Key Play Breakdown: Brandon Saad scores on a combination of breakdowns by the Red Wings

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 21st 2019 | 4 min read |

Detroit had a real bad defensive game against the Blackhawks on Wednesday. Hilariously, they played bad defense not by allowing too many shots, but by...

Key Play Breakdown: Flyers outhustle Detroit for Sunday’s game-winner

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 17th 2019 | 5 min read |

The Red Wings dropped both games to the Flyers over the weekend and Sunday’s game wasn’t nearly as fun as Saturday’s. The game wasn’t totally ...

Key Play Breakdown: Luke Glendening’s goal proves the best defense is played the farthest from your own net

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 13th 2019 | 5 min read |

The Red Wings salvaged their fathers’ & mentors trip with a win in Nashville on Tuesday night. It wasn’t a particularly pretty victory, but I ...

Key Play Breakdown: Strome-in my pain with his fingers

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 11th 2019 | 4 min read |

The Red Wings lost their third straight game as they went to Chicago and dropped a 5-2 decision to the Hawks. The shot counter registered 45-36 in fav...

Key Play Breakdown: Turnovers are Bad

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 10th 2019 | 3 min read |

The Wings winning streak out of the break has turned into a two-game losing streak after Detroit got to beat up on three Canadian cupcake teams and fo...

Key Play Breakdown: No Snip Show in the Basement Battle

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 4th 2019 | 5 min read |

The Wings earned their first shutout of the season on February 2nd as they blanked the Senators 2-0 in a Larkin-less game that, let’s face it was pr...

Key Play Breakdown: DDKOTGWG

By J.J. FromKansas | Feb 1st 2019 | 4 min read |

The Wings and Leafs came out of the break by taking another break to watch the Red Kelly Jersey Retirement Ceremony taking place at the LCA on Friday ...

Key Play Breakdown: The Helm-to-Glendening pipeline is slick

By J.J. FromKansas | Jan 23rd 2019 | 4 min read |

The Wings completed their Western Canada road trip by finally holding a lead (barely) and head into the All-Star break just above the basement. I’m ...

Key Play Breakdown: Canucks take advantage of over-collapsing Red Wings defense

By J.J. FromKansas | Jan 20th 2019 | 3 min read |

The Red Wings remain winless through Western Canada after blowing a third-period lead on their matinee trip to Vancouver on Sunday. The Canucks scored...

Key Play Breakdown: Nyquist cooks the Ducks’ goose with game-winner

By J.J. FromKansas | Jan 16th 2019 | 4 min read |

The Red Wings have won two straight games and the Ducks have lost 12 straight and I honestly couldn’t tell you which I’m happier about (which migh...