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Game Day Notes- Detroit/Toronto

10/17/2014 at 12:05pm EDT

All then news and notes on Detroit and Toronto...

DETROIT RED WINGS

- Tonight is the 649th all-time meeting between DET and TOR
- Tonight marks the 1st of 5 meetings this season between DET and TOR, 1st of 3 in TOR – all five meetings will be played by 12/13
- DET’s all-time record vs. TOR: 278-273-93-4
- DET’s all-time road record at TOR: 107-166-47-1
- DET was 3-0-1 vs. TOR in 2013-14, outscoring TOR 14-11
- DET is 1358-1259-471-21 all-time against Original Six opponents
- Last season marked the first time DET and TOR met as division foes since 1997-98
- Gustav Nyquist has 4 points (3-1-4) in 4 games vs. TOR
- Henrik Zetterberg has 10 points (6-4-10) in 9 games vs. TOR
- Darren Helm recorded his first-ever hat trick on 3/29/14 at TOR
- Stephen Weiss has 23 points (9-14-23) in 32 games vs. TOR
- TOR’s top scorers vs. DET: Dion Phaneuf (7-10-17 in 24 GP), Joffrey Lupul (9-6-15 in 19 GP) and Phil Kessel (4-5-9 in 10 GP)
- Jonas Gustavsson was 39-45-15 with a 2.98 GAA and 5 SO in 107 games with TOR from 2009-12
- TOR has three alumni of the US NTDP: David Booth (2001-02), Phil Kessel (2003-05) and James van Riemsdyk (2005-07)
- TOR F David Booth is a Detroit native who recorded 105 points (45-60-105) in 134 games with Michigan State from 2002-06
- TOR F Mike Santorelli skated in 121 games with Northern Michigan from 2004-07, recording 110 points (61-49-110)
- Former Red Wing Brendan Shanahan was named TOR’s president this summer. Shanahan won 3 Stanley Cups with DET and recorded 633 points (309-324-633) in 716 games with DET from 1996-06

KRONWALL ON THE MOVE
With 2 points in his first 3 games of the season, Niklas Kronwall is moving up the ranks for DET’s all-time highest scoring defensemen:

PLAYER YEARS Games Played Points
1) Nicklas Lidstrom 1991-12 1,564 1,142
2) Reed Larson 1976-86 708 570
3) Red Kelly 1947-60 846 472
4) Gary Bergman 1964-75 706 303
T5) Marcel Pronovost 1950-65 983 297
T5) Niklas Kronwall 2003-pres. 597 297

NYQUIST HITS 100
Gustav Nyquist skated in his 100th NHL game on 10/15 vs. BOS and has scored in all 3 of DET’s games this season, giving him 26 goals over his last 37 regular-season games. Per the Elias Sports Bureau, the only other players to score 35 goals in their first 100 NHL games over the past 5 seasons are CAR’s Jeff Skinner (38) and EDM’s Taylor Hall. The last Red Wing to accomplish the feat was Slava Kozlov, who scored 37 goals over 100 games from 1991-92 to 1993-94.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

TORONTO NOTABLES VS. DETROIT
- Dion Phaneuf (1 goal, 3 assists) and Joffrey Lupul (2 goals, 2 assists) led the Maple Leafs with 4 points each last season against the Red Wings
- Stephane Robidas recorded his first NHL point (assist) against Detroit on November 1, 2000 with Montreal
- Peter Holland played his first NHL game against the Red Wings on November 5, 2011 with Anaheim
- Three of the four games Toronto and Detroit played last season were decided by one goal
- Dion Phaneuf leads the Maple Leafs with 17 career points (7 goals, 10 assists) against the Red Wings
- Tonight is the first of five meetings between Detroit and Toronto this season
- The last time the Maple Leafs and Red Wings played one another in back-to-back games was during the 2000-01 season (February 8, 10)

WORTH NOTING
- Phil Kessel holds the NHL's sixth longest active games played streak, having skated in 368 consecutive games. Kessel has never missed a game in his time with the Maple Leafs dating back to November 3, 2009
- The line of Phil Kessel, Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk combined for 5 points on Tuesday night against Colorado and now has 12 points over their last 2 games
- Forward Tyler Bozak collected 2 assists in his 300th NHL game on Tuesday night against the Avalanche. For the first time in Bozak's NHL career, he has recorded at least a point in 4 straight games to start the season
- Toronto's ice time leaders on Tuesday night were Dion Phaneuf (24:18) and Stuart Percy (23:34). Both Phaneuf and Percy played a team-high 28 shifts

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