Goal Analysis

Key Play Breakdown: Joe Pavelski’s tip-in game-winner

No man goes unpunished as we look at the Wings’ breakdown on the last goal San Jose needed to win on Sunday.

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

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 allowing pretty much every shot the Hawks took to be a real quality scoring chance. Mostly, the problems were on the veterans too. Here’s

Goal Anaylsis: Helm's quickstrike

Darren Helm's goal just 14 seconds after Niklas Kronwall's tying goal quickly turned the momentum heavily in Detroit's favor. The play started out innocently enough with a dump in to the offensive zone. Good awareness in the offensive zone by Helm lead to the goal and a 2-1 Detroit lead.

Goal Analysis: Cleary's 2nd goal

I had six Detroit goals to choose from last night and thought there was none better to look at than Dan Cleary's second goal of the night. That, and the video for this goal was the best. Cleary's goal wasn't exactly the most beautiful shot you'll ever see but it's

Goal Analysis: Zetterberg's OT winner

Back with the second installment of our goal analysis series. I apologize for the lack of a post following the Vancouver game but I just didn't have the time or the desire after the loss to do so. But nevertheless, we're back with installment two as we look at Henrik

Goal Analysis: Abdelkader's 2nd goal in as many games

This is a new feature I'm going to try to start doing after each game: looking at a big save or a goal and breaking it down to analyze what went right (or wrong if it was a bad goal allowed). This is another awesome perk of being on the

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

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 bereft of fun, but I don’t have any of that stuff to cover. For this one, we’ve got a

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

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 wouldn’t necessarily say it was stolen either. For this Key Play Breakdown, I’m going to focus on the first goal of the game

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

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 favor of the Wings, but the eye test suggested they were thoroughly outplayed by Chicago. The Wings got eaten alive by Chicago’s

Key Play Breakdown: Turnovers are Bad

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 found themselves finally having to face American juggernauts again (it’s sarcasm, calm down) Of the four goals in Detroit’s 3-1 loss,

Key Play Breakdown: No Snip Show in the Basement Battle

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 pretty boring. But hey, they won and we got goals! Both of Detroit’s markers came in the first period just 39

Key Play Breakdown: DDKOTGWG

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 Night and then finally resumed hockeying with the Wings taking a 3-2 overtime victory. Here’s your game-winner broken down: The Setup

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

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 ok with that, as I’d rather enter the break on a win. Plenty of time to lose ground in February. The one that

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

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 two of their three goals in very similar fashion. We’ll take a look at the one that counted as the game-winner for this installment of

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

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 might tell you something about how bitter I still am about the 2007 Western Conference Final). The game-winner came late in the

Key Play Breakdown: More like Tyler BerTHREEzzi

The Wings are back in the win column and I get to pick a goal to have fun breaking down. Nice way to end a Saturday! Here’s Tyler Bertuzzi’s hat trick goal against Minnesota in the third period The Setup The Wings dump the puck into the Minnesota

Key Play Breakdown: 13 seconds in

It took me longer to embed this video than it took for the Jets to open the scoring against Detroit on Friday night in the Wings’ 4-2 loss to Winnipeg. The Setup We start with Luke Glendening losing the game’s opening faceoff and Tanev dumping the puck into the

Key Play Breakdown: Wings’ inability to start the third period leads to Canadiens’ game-winner

The Red Wings lost their second straight game by dropping a 3-2 contest to a Montreal Canadiens team tired from traveling (and travel delays) the night before. At least this loss was less-ugly than the one in October. I really wanted to write up one of Andreas Athanasiou’s two

Key Play Breakdown: Hronek finishes the Red Wings prettiest passing play of the season

The Wings ended their latest winning streak at one game with a 3-2 loss against the Capitals. Detroit was swept in the season series against Washington this season, but at least they were pretty competitive in this one. Not sarcasm either, I’m not real bothered by this one. Perhaps

Key Play Breakdown: Dylan’s dangling dentistry de-fangs Predators’ defense

The Red Wings got off the losing skid by basically playing as the Red Wings’ opponent has of-late: by going down multiple goals and then coming back. The overtime period was plenty-frustrating for Wings fans, but fortunately we got to avoid another shootout on the strength of Dylan Larkin’s

Key Play Breakdown: Red Wings’ PK adds to the bad column with Gaudreau

New year, same Red Wings that we saw finish out 2018 by blowing a lead and then losing. The Wings were sloppy and undisciplined. This is pretty well-encapsulated in Calgary’s game-winner from Wednesday: The Setup With Jacob de la Rose in the box for a bad, obvious hold, the

Key Play Breakdown: Athanasiou Scores with Non-Assist Assistance from Glendening, Abdelkader

The Red Wings will head into 2019 off a loss where they blew a three-goal lead and will have all of the first of the year to watch a boring outdoor game while thinking about how they let it slip away. However, since I don’t have FIlip Hronek to

Key Play Breakdown: Filip Hronek’s Awful Night

I’m going to do something a little different with this key play breakdown and instead of giving you one goal, show you all four goals the Dallas Stars scored in their 5-1 win over Detroit while Filip Hronek was on the ice. I don’t want to pick on

Key Play Breakdown: Rasmussen finishes a long shift the right way for Detroit in Toronto

The Red Wings lost their last pre-Christmas game in Toronto on Sunday night after blowing two leads, but they spent a lot of time taking the play to the Leafs and I’m not really mad about the loss thanks to a mixture of Christmas spirit and another rare appearance

Key Play Breakdown: Evgenii Dadonov’s game-winner against Detroit

The Wings were on the opposite end of the results table from Thursday’s matchup where they were outplayed but won after Saturday’s tilt against Florida. The Wings carried play for the majority of the game, but couldn’t overcome a sloppy first period in which the Panthers got