The Red Wings dropped a heartbreaker to Arizona on Tuesday night, dominating large stretches of play yet somehow getting shut down by a goalie who only put up a .900 save percentage. The highlights barely do it justice, but Detroit got let down by a combination of bounces, their defense, and their goaltending. I thought it was a dubious decision to let Jimmy Howard start the third based on the way things had gone to that point. Things weren’t going his way. I’m just glad the Wings got a point before that decision bit them when Howard let the softest goal of the night get by him in overtime.
Enjoy 4:24 of game highlights courtesy of NHL.com
Highlights of the highlights:
- Somehow in less than four and a half minutes to show nine goals, we get nearly a full minute into the video before we actually see a goal scored.
- It takes another full minute of the Red Wings’ inability to score in highlights before goal #2 shows up.
- Seven of the next eleven clips are goals.
- Included in the clips that aren’t goals? Two chances by Jurco, a brief moment of the 5-on-3 kill, and a useless transition that shows the last four seconds of regulation to set up OT.
- No replay of any of Mike Smith’s hilarious dives. /
Possession Metrics
Even-strength Corsi numbers provided thanks to NHL.com via War-On-Ice.com.
| Name | Pos | iCF | C+/- | F+/- | ZSO | ZSD | ZS% | TOI | CF60 | CA60 | CP60 |
| Jimmy.Howard | G | 0 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 12 | 63.64% | 45.1 | 62.5 | 37.2 | 99.7 |
| Brendan.Smith | D | 2 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 42.86% | 16.2 | 70.4 | 37.1 | 107.5 |
| Tomas.Tatar | LR | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 64.29% | 14.4 | 79.4 | 46 | 125.4 |
| Kyle.Quincey | D | 4 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 45.45% | 17.8 | 64 | 37.1 | 101.1 |
| Tomas.Jurco | RL | 3 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 50.00% | 12.8 | 51.8 | 14.1 | 65.9 |
| Henrik.Zetterberg | CL | 6 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 80.00% | 15.2 | 71.1 | 43.4 | 114.5 |
| Danny.Dekeyser | D | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 53.85% | 17 | 53 | 28.3 | 81.3 |
| Joakim.Andersson | C | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 50.00% | 8.7 | 62.1 | 13.8 | 75.9 |
| Marek.Zidlicky | D | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 57.14% | 14.3 | 62.9 | 37.8 | 100.7 |
| Riley.Sheahan | C | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 64.29% | 13.3 | 67.7 | 45.1 | 112.9 |
| Jakub.Kindl | D | 2 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 84.62% | 11.1 | 65.1 | 38 | 103 |
| Gustav.Nyquist | LR | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 66.67% | 10.5 | 68.7 | 45.8 | 114.6 |
| Drew.Miller | RC | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 50.00% | 13 | 41.6 | 23.1 | 64.7 |
| Justin.Abdelkader | RL | 3 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 80.00% | 13.6 | 61.9 | 44.2 | 106.1 |
| Darren.Helm | C | 6 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 61.54% | 13.9 | 68.9 | 56 | 125 |
| Luke.Glendening | C | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 42.86% | 8.3 | 43.1 | 21.6 | 64.7 |
| Jonathan.Ericsson | D | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 80.00% | 13.9 | 60.2 | 47.3 | 107.5 |
| Teemu.Pulkkinen | LR | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 50.00% | 6.3 | 57.1 | 38.1 | 95.2 |
| Erik.Cole | LR | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 80.00% | 5.5 | 65.5 | 43.6 | 109.1 |
Check out more from war-on-ice.com, including the visualized shift chart here.
Corsi Timeline from Hockeystats.ca
