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GDT - WCSF Game 1: Red Wings (0-0) at 'Hawks (0-0) 8:00

05/15/2013 at 7:33am EDT

How CHI got here:

W 2-1 (OT), W 5-2, L 2-3 (OT), W 3-0, W 5-1 - - - apparently, by laying waste to Minny (see below).

In the first round, a few prognisticators gave the Wings a chance. Not so in round 2, everybody and their dog have the 'Hawks winning this series (oh, just stop looking in the mirror); statistically you can readily see why. Little brother are a freaking machine. But, as some of you remember (all too horribly well), the machine doesn't always win.

The Wings are playing with house money this series - - and maybe that'll give them a chance. If so, Jimmah will have to be amazing, and some of the skaters will have to play - - at least to expectations, if not outta their minds.

The 'Hawks are rusty and under pressure - - the Wings steal game 1.

LGRW

FINAL REGULAR SEASON RECORD:

DET: 48 GP, 24-16-8, 56 pts, (7 in Conf, 3 in Central), 124 GF, 115 GA, Last 10 5-2-3, WON 4

CHI: 48 GP, 36-7-5, 77 pts, (1 in Conf, 1 in Central), 155 GF, 102 GA, Last 10 7-2-1, LOST 1

REGULAR SEASON TEAM STATISTICS:

DET: 0.583 point% (14), 2.54 G/G (20), 2.29 GA/G (5), 1.10 5-5 F/A (7), 18.4 PP% (15), 81.7 PK% (12), 30.1 S/G (10), 27.5 SA/G (7), 50.8 FO% (10)

CHI: 0.802 point% (1), 3.10 G/G (2), 2.02 GA/G (1), 1.52 5-5 F/A (1), 16.7 PP% (19), 87.2 PK% (3) 31.1 S/G (5), 26.2 SA/G (4), 50.8 FO% (11)

Yea, yea; I hear you. The regular season means nothing now. Well, it is a 48 game sample, and the 'Hawks numbers are damn impressive; just saying.

Goal Differential/Game:

DET = +0.25

CHI = +1.08

PLAYOFF TEAM STATISTICS:

DET: 0.571 point% (7), 2.57 G/G (9), 3.00 GA/G (11), 0.92 5-5 F/A (9), 24.0 PP% (4), 72.0 PK% (14), 31.1 S/G (11), 32.1 SA/G (9), 51.8 FO% (4)

CHI: 0.800 point% (1), 3.40 G/G (3), 1.40 GA/G (1), 1.86 5-5 F/A (2), 15.4 PP% (10), 100.0 PK% (1), 33.8 S/G (4), 27.8 SA/G (2), 49.8 FO% (9)

Fer fuchs sake, apparently I was not paying enough attention to the beat-down the 'Hawks put on the Ingalls sisters. Geebuz.

PLAYOFF PLAYER STATS:

DET Skaters:

POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI

L Henrik Zetterberg 7 3 5 8 3 20:30
C Pavel Datsyuk 7 2 5 7 2 21:10
R Daniel Cleary 7 2 3 5 -1 16:37
C Damien Brunner 7 2 3 5 -1 13:26
C Valtteri Filppula 7 1 3 4 -1 18:00
C Johan Franzen 7 3 0 3 -5 20:00
L Justin Abdelkader 5 2 1 3 4 16:42
R Mikael Samuelsson 5 1 1 2 -1 13:04
D Kyle Quincey 7 0 2 2 -2 19:03
D Jakub Kindl 7 0 2 2 1 18:33
D Brendan Smith 7 1 1 2 -3 19:26
C Joakim Andersson 7 0 2 2 -1 14:44
C Gustav Nyquist 7 1 1 2 1 13:10
D Niklas Kronwall 7 0 1 1 -2 25:20
D Jonathan Ericsson 7 0 1 1 2 21:50
R Patrick Eaves 6 0 1 1 -2 10:14
R Todd Bertuzzi 5 0 0 0 -2 10:00
D Carlo Colaiacovo 2 0 0 0 0 15:25
R Jordin Tootoo 1 0 0 0 0 6:24
C Cory Emmerton 6 0 0 0 -4 11:02
D Brian Lashoff 3 0 0 0 0 18:00
D Danny DeKeyser 2 0 0 0 0 17:53

DET Goalies:

Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT

Jimmy Howard 7, 4-3, 2.74, 0.911

CHI Skaters:

R Marian Hossa 5 3 3 6 3 20:03 Tick-tock
R Patrick Sharp 5 5 1 6 4 16:44
D Duncan Keith 5 1 4 5 5 23:21
R Patrick Kane 5 0 5 5 3 19:53
L Bryan Bickell 5 3 1 4 1 12:59
C Andrew Shaw 5 1 3 4 3 15:27
R Michael Frolik 5 2 1 3 1 11:47
C Michal Handzus 5 0 2 2 2 16:46
D Johnny Oduya 5 1 1 2 3 21:02
C Jonathan Toews 5 0 2 2 1 21:09
C Marcus Kruger 5 1 1 2 2 13:30
D Niklas Hjalmarsson 5 0 1 1 5 20:33
L Viktor Stalberg 5 0 1 1 2 12:37
D Nick Leddy 5 0 1 1 -1 18:52
L Brandon Saad 5 0 1 1 0 18:17
D Michal Rozsival 5 0 0 0 3 21:21
D Brent Seabrook 5 0 0 0 1 20:46
L Daniel Carcillo 2 0 0 0 1 6:30
L Brandon Bollig 3 0 0 0 0 7:03

CHI Goalies:

Corey Crawford 5, 4-1, 1.32, 0.950

THE HOCKEY NEWS - TOTT:

DET - HOT:

Valtteri Filppula 3 pts in last 2 GP
Justin Abdelkader 2 pts in last 2 GP
Dan Cleary 2 pts in last 2 GP
Jimmy Howard 2-0-0, 2.48, .929 in last 2 GPI

DET - NOT HOT:


Todd Bertuzzi 0 pts in last 5 GP

CHI - HOT:

Marian Hossa 4 pts in last 2 GP
Patrick Sharp 6 pts in last 4 GP
Bryan Bickell 2 pts in last 2 GP
Duncan Keith 5 pts in last 5 GP
Corey Crawford 2-0-0, 0.50, .979 in last 2 GPI

CHI - NOT HOT:

Viktor Stalberg 0 pts in last 4 GP
Brent Seabrook 0 pts in last 5 GP
Michal Rozsival 0 pts in last 5 GP

Injury Report:

DET:

DeKeyser, Danny Broken thumb remainder of the playoffs
Helm, Darren Back injury injured reserve
Miller, Drew Broken right hand remainder of the regular season

CHI:

Bolland, Dave Groin day-to-day
Emery, Ray Lower body injury day-to-day

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Khan

Coach Mike Babcock wasn't prepared to reveal his plans for the fourth line. In Game 7 vs. Anaheim, Samuelsson, Todd Bertuzzi and Patrick Eaves took shifts there with Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, who double-shifted.

“I've decided, but I'm not going to tell you until tomorrow, because I'll wait and see what happens,'' Babcock said. "We got some guys bumped, so we'll make that decision at our skate tomorrow.'' . . .

Here are the lines they used:

Johan Franzen-Pavel Datsyuk-Justin Abdelkader

Valtteri Filppula-Henrik Zetterberg-Daniel Cleary

Gustav Nyquist-Joakim Andersson-Damien Brunner

Todd Bertuzzi--Cory Emmerton/Mikael Samuelsson-Patrick Eaves

Jordin Tootoo worked in on the fourth line. Drew Miller, who's hoping to return in the series, and Darren Helm, who has been ruled out of the series, also skated and will travel to Chicago.

The defense remains the same:

Niklas Kronwall-Jonathan Ericsson

Kyle Quincey-Brendan Smith

Carlo Colaiacovo-Jakub Kindl

Ian White (scratched)

Jimmy Howard

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