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GDT - Game 1: Red Wings at Blues (8:00)

01/19/2013 at 7:54am EST

Your Detroyet Red Wings return to the ice for the first time in almost nine months; thanks to a ridiculous lockout and a first round playoff exit (a 4 games to 1 shellacking by the Predators of all teams). Many prognosticators expect a similar result for this shortened season, the Wings will squeek into the playoffs and maybe win one round (although there are a few writers out there suggesting DET will not make the playoffs at all); and with good reason.

To be blunt, DET's blueline is highly suspect. DET are attempting to replace the departure of Lidstrom and Stuart with Brendan Smith and Carlo Coca Cola, it just doesn't add up - - there simply isn't any rational comparison there. Uncle Mike, at this moment has Kronwall and E-52 as the top pair; then Quincey and the rookie, Smith as the 2nd pair, with Whitey and Coca-Cola as the third pair. Terrifying comes to mind, Lord knows what is running through Jimmah's mind.

So, if DET are to win, they are going to have to score like it was the early 80's. The Wings do have some nice depth up front. But they are betting (hoping/praying) that Mule decides that he wants to play more than once in a while, which is why I (and a few others much smarter than me) have guessed the brain-trust have him penciled in to take Homer's spot on the #1 PP unit. Tom Renney has been put in charge of DET's miserable excuse for a PP (which in the final 51 games last year, saw DET go a mind-boggling 20-of-168 chances (11.9 percent).

It'll be a fascinating, and likely bumpy ride. LGRW


END REGULAR SEASON RECORD:

DET: 82 GP, 48-28-6, 102 pts, (5 in Conf, 3 in Central), 248 GF, 203 GA, Last 10 4-4-2, OT 1

STL: 82 GP, 49-22-11, 109 pts, (2 in Conf, 1 in Central), 210 GF, 165 GA, Last 10 4-3-3, WON 1

DET road: 17-21-3
STL home: 30-6-5

END REGULAR SEASON STATS (rank):

DET: .622 point% (9), 2.92 G/G (7), 2.44 GA/G (6), 1.44 5-5 F/A (1), 16.1 PP% (22), 81.8 PK% (18), 32.2 S/G (5), 27.0 SA/G (3), 51.6 FO% (6).

STL: .665 point% (3), 2.51 G/G (21), 1.89 GA/G (1), 1.34 5-5 F/A (2), 16.7 PP% (19), 85.8 PK% (7), 30.6 S/G (10), 26.7 SA/G (1), 50.4 FO% (14).

Goal Differential/Game:

DET = +0.48
STL = +0.62


PLAYER STATS - END REGULAR SEASON:
DET Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI

Henrik Zetterberg C 82 22 47 69 14
Pavel Datsyuk LW 70 19 48 67 21
Valtteri Filppula C 81 23 43 66 18

Johan Franzen RW 77 29 27 56 23

Todd Bertuzzi RW 71 14 24 38 23

Niklas Kronwall D 82 15 21 36 -2
Daniel Cleary RW 75 12 21 33 2
Ian White D 77 7 25 32 23
Jordin Tootoo RW 77 6 24 30 -5
Darren Helm C 68 9 17 26 5
Drew Miller LW 80 14 11 25 6
Justin Abdelkader LW 81 8 14 22 4

Carlo Colaiacovo D 64 2 17 19 7
Jakub Kindl D 55 1 12 13 7
Jonathan Ericsson D 69 1 10 11 16
Cory Emmerton C 71 6 4 10 1
Brendan Smith D 14 1 6 7 3
Jan Mursak LW 25 1 2 3 2
Patrick Eaves RW 10 0 1 1 0
Mikael Samuelsson RW 6 1 2 0 -1
Kyle Quincey D 54 5 18 0 -1
Damien Brunner RW 0 0 0 0 0

DET Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT

Jimmy Howard 57 35 17 4 2.13 0.920
Jonas Gustavsson 42 17 17 4 2.92 0.902

STL Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI

T.J. Oshie C 80 19 35 54 15
David Backes RW 82 24 30 54 15
Alex Pietrangelo D 81 12 39 51 16
Kevin Shattenkirk D 81 9 34 43 20
David Perron LW 57 21 21 42 19
Patrik Berglund C 82 19 19 38 4
Chris Stewart RW 79 15 15 30 1
Alex Steen C 43 15 13 28 24
Jamie Langenbrunner RW 70 6 18 24 7
Andy McDonald C 25 10 12 22 4
Vladimir Sobotka C 73 5 15 20 12
Matt D'Agostini RW 55 9 9 18 12
Barret Jackman D 81 1 12 13 20
Roman Polak D 77 0 11 11 6
Scott Nichol C 80 3 5 8 -5
Chris Porter LW 47 4 3 7 -1
Jeff Woywitka D 27 1 5 6 2
Ian Cole D 26 1 5 6 7
Ryan Reaves RW 60 3 1 4 0
Jaden Schwartz C 7 2 1 3 1
Vladimir Tarasenko RW 0 0 0 0 0
Kris Russell D 12 2 1 0 -1
Wade Redden D 0 0 0 0

STL Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT
Jaroslav Halak 46 26 12 7 1.97 0.926
Brian Elliott 38 23 10 4 1.56 0.940


TSN - HOT and NOT:
DET: Hot:

DET: Not Hot:

STL: Hot:

STL: Not Hot:

Injury Report:
DET:

STL:

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Helm and Bert are out. Here are Friday practice lines:

Zetterberg-Datsyuk-Brunner

Sameulsson-Filppula-Franzen

Eaves-Abdelkader-Cleary

Miller-Emmerton-Tootoo

Kronwall-Ericsson

Quincey-Smith

White-Colaiacovo

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