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GDT - Game 16: Red Wings (7-6-2) at Nashville (7-4-5) 8:00

02/19/2013 at 9:33am EST

DET have blown 2-0 leads in two of their past three games and are winless in three (0-2-1) heading into tonight's tilt at Nashville. They haven't scored a goal in the third period in each of their past three games, registering only 14 shots combined. Being 0-for-26 on the power play in six road games won't help matters much.

NSH cannot score, posting a league low 2.06 G/G. But when you have Pekka Rinne as a backstop, it just doesn't matter; in his last four games he has been a wall, 0.57 GAA, and a ridiculous 0.974 save%.

This one could be really ugly. LGRW

SEASON RECORD:

DET: 15 GP, 7-6-2, 16 pts, (9 in Conf, 4 in Central), 40 GF, 44 GA, Last 10 5-4-1 LOST 2

NSH: 16 GP, 7-4-5, 19 pts, (5 in Conf, 3 in Central), 35 GF, 35 GA, Last 10 6-2-2 LOST 1

DET ROAD: 2-3-1

NSH HOME: 3-1-3

TEAM STATISTICS:

DET: 0.533 point% (19), 2.60 G/G (19), 2.93 GA/G (20), 1.14 5-5 F/A (12), 13.9 PP% (25), 75.4 PK% (24), 29.2 S/G (15), 29.4 SA/G (19), 53.3 FO% (3)

NSH: 0.594 point% (13), 2.06 G/G (30), 1.94 GA/G (3), 1.10 5-5 F/A (13), 15.1 PP% (22), 84.5 PK% (6), 23.7 S/G (30), 27.2 SA/G (7), 50.9 FO% (11)

Goal Differential/Game:

DET = -0.33
NSH = +0.12

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

L Henrik Zetterberg 15 5 15 20 1 21:04
C Pavel Datsyuk 14 7 9 16 6 20:09
C Damien Brunner 15 7 4 11 -2 17:35
D Niklas Kronwall 15 1 9 10 -9 24:03
C Johan Franzen 12 3 6 9 4 18:23
C Valtteri Filppula 15 3 5 8 3 17:45
D Jonathan Ericsson 12 2 4 6 2 20:38
C Tomas Tatar 7 2 2 4 0 12:25
D Jakub Kindl 9 1 2 3 4 17:17
R Todd Bertuzzi 7 2 1 3 3 15:31
L Drew Miller 15 1 2 3 -3 13:06
D Ian White 10 1 1 2 2 20:18
R Patrick Eaves 8 0 2 2 2 9:20
C Cory Emmerton 15 1 1 2 1 9:15
C Joakim Andersson 5 1 1 2 0 10:15
D Brian Lashoff 11 1 1 2 -6 18:30
R Jordin Tootoo 15 0 2 2 1 8:44
R Mikael Samuelsson 3 0 1 1 -2 14:07
L Justin Abdelkader 15 0 1 1 -7 13:06
D Brendan Smith 8 0 1 1 4 17:16
R Daniel Cleary 15 1 0 1 -5 16:42
D Kent Huskins 8 0 0 0 -1 14:46
D Carlo Colaiacovo 2 0 0 0 0 17:26
D Kyle Quincey 15 0 0 0 7 18:55
L Jan Mursak 1 0 0 0 0 2:34
C Gustav Nyquist 2 0 0 0 -1 12:22
C Darren Helm 1 0 0 0 0 12:27

DET Goalies:
Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT

Petr Mrazek 2, 1-1-0, 2.02, 0.922
Jimmy Howard 13, 6-5-2, 2.97, 0.900
Jonas Gustavsson 1, 0-0-0, 3.16, 0.875

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

C Colin Wilson 16 5 7 12 2 17:09
R Martin Erat 15 3 7 10 -1 19:02
C David Legwand 16 3 3 6 6 18:06
C Mike Fisher 16 3 3 6 0 20:49
L Sergei Kostitsyn 16 2 4 6 5 16:40
D Ryan Ellis 16 2 4 6 4 16:03
D Kevin Klein 16 1 4 5 4 19:53
D Shea Weber 16 2 3 5 0 26:30
R Brandon Yip 14 2 3 5 3 13:40
R Patric Hornqvist 6 1 4 5 -2 15:33
D Jonathon Blum 9 1 4 5 4 14:15
L Gabriel Bourque 14 3 2 5 4 15:17
C Nick Spaling 16 3 1 4 -3 16:20
C Paul Gaustad 13 1 2 3 0 14:07
D Roman Josi 16 0 2 2 1 22:05
C Craig Smith 16 0 2 2 -3 12:38
L Rich Clune 15 1 0 1 1 6:50
R Matt Halischuk 11 0 1 1 -1 11:07
D Hal Gill 13 0 0 0 0 13:19
R Brian McGrattan 2 0 0 0 0 6:17
D Scott Hannan 16 0 0 0 -5 20:58

NSH Goalies:

Player GPI W L OT GAA PCT

Pekka Rinne 14, 6-3-4, 1.58, 0.938 Tonight's tilt will be fUN
Chris Mason 3, 1-1-1, 3.42, 0.888

THE HOCKEY NEWS - TOTT:

DET - HOT:

Jakub Kindl - 2 pts in last 2 GP
Damien Brunner - 2 pts in last 2 GP
Tomas Tatar - 3 pts in last 3 GP

DET - NOT HOT:

Dan Cleary - 0 pts in last 5 GP
Kyle Quincey - 0 pts in last 15 GP
Jimmy Howard - 0-1-1, 4.00, .869 in last 2 GPI

NSH - HOT:

Colin Wilson - 3 pts in last 2 GP
Shea Weber - 3 pts in last 2 GP
Sergei Kostitsyn - 3 pts in last 2 GP
Jonathon Blum - 3 pts in last 2 GP
Martin Erat - 3 pts in last 3 GP
Pekka Rinne - 2-1-1, 0.57, .974 in last 4 GPI

NSH - NOT HOT:

Kevin Klein - 0 pts in last 6 GP
Chris Mason - 0-0-1, 4.95, .840 in last 2 GPI

Injury Report:

DET:

Bertuzzi, Todd Back injury injured reserve
Colaiacovo, Carlo Shoulder injury injured reserve
Franzen, Johan Hip flexor injured reserve
Helm, Darren Back injury injured reserve
Mursak, Jan Collarbone injured reserve
Smith, Brendan Shoulder injury injured reserve

NSH:

NONE

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MONDAY practice lines:

Valtteri Filppula-Henrik Zetterberg-Damien Brunner
Tomas Tatar-Pavel Datsyuk-Mikael Samuelsson
Daniel Cleary-Justin Abdelkader-Joakim Andersson
Drew Miller-Cory Emmerton-Jordin Tootoo

The Red Wings are 0-for-26 on the power play in six road games. That led to some shuffling in practice. The first unit consisted of Datsyuk, Zetterberg and Tatar up front.

The second unit had Filppula, Cleary and Brunner up front, Ian White and Jakub Kindl at the points.

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