Before this road-trip, I opined that DET may damn well be lucky to manage a point. Obviously, I'm no pharmacist. Detroyet's win last night actually pushed them over .500 on the road, although it was far from pretty. Jimmy-Freaking-Howard was a beast, and needed to be after dumb-ass Ken Daniels put the bad mojo on the Wings in the Budd Lynch minute.
Don't expect goal-tending heroics tonight, Monster is in net. There is good news however; PHX are 0-4-1 in thier last 5 tilts - managing a whopping 3 GF in that span.
Of course, I'm continuing to predict doom. No way DET wins after playing last night at ANA, no way in hell.
These are hard times, says Eric Clapton. LGRW, clap-clap-clap-clap-clap, BBM.
SEASON RECORD:
DET: 32 GP, 16-11-5, 37 pts, (5 in Conf, 2 in Central), 87 GF, 81 GA, Last 10 6-3-1, WON2
PHX: 31 GP, 13-14-4, 30 pts, (12 in Conf, 5 in Pacific), 80 GF, 87 GA, Last 10 3-6-1, LOST 3
DET ROAD: 7-6-2 (12)
PHX HOME: 10-6-1 (15)
TEAM STATISTICS:
DET: 0.578 point% (12), 2.66 G/G (14), 2.47 GA/G (9), 1.21 5-5 F/A (7), 16.5 PP% (21), 79.2 PK% (22), 29.4 S/G (13), 28.5 SA/G (15), 52.0 FO% (5)
PHX: 0.484 point% (23), 2.48 G/G (23), 2.71 GA/G (16), 0.87 5-5 F/A (21), 15.0 PP% (24), 83.0 PK% (10), 30.8 S/G (7), 28.6 SA/G (16), 52.5 FO% (4)
Goal Differential/Game:
DET = +0.19
PHX = -0.23
PLAYER STATS:
DET Skaters:
POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI
C Pavel Datsyuk 31 10 23 33 14 20:06
L Henrik Zetterberg 32 8 23 31 0 20:23
D Niklas Kronwall 32 5 17 22 -5 24:03
C Damien Brunner 31 10 11 21 -7 16:44
C Johan Franzen 25 6 11 17 9 18:20
C Valtteri Filppula 25 6 7 13 0 17:27
D Jonathan Ericsson 29 2 8 10 3 21:23
D Jakub Kindl 25 3 7 10 16 17:53
R Daniel Cleary 32 7 2 9 -3 16:36
L Justin Abdelkader 32 6 2 8 2 14:10
L Drew Miller 32 4 3 7 -2 13:45
C Joakim Andersson 22 3 4 7 6 11:03
C Tomas Tatar 18 4 3 7 2 11:22
R Patrick Eaves 22 1 5 6 4 10:48
R Jordin Tootoo 30 2 3 5 2 9:16
C Cory Emmerton 32 2 3 5 0 10:55
D Brian Lashoff 27 1 3 4 -6 17:56
D Ian White 19 1 2 3 3 19:50
D Brendan Smith 21 0 3 3 4 18:42
R Todd Bertuzzi 7 2 1 3 3 15:31
D Kyle Quincey 26 1 1 2 8 19:11
C Gustav Nyquist 7 1 1 2 1 12:26
R Mikael Samuelsson 3 0 1 1 -2 14:07
D Kent Huskins 11 0 0 0 -3 15:20
D Carlo Colaiacovo 2 0 0 0 0 17:26
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 27, 14-8-4, 2.37, 0.919
Jonas Gustavsson 5, 1-2-1, 2.85, 0.878
PHX Skaters:
L Mikkel Boedker 31 6 13 19 -3 18:37
R Shane Doan 31 11 7 18 1 17:34
D Oliver Ekman-Larsson 31 3 15 18 8 25:06
D Keith Yandle 31 5 11 16 -3 22:50
C Antoine Vermette 31 7 7 14 -3 18:12
R David Moss 29 3 10 13 2 15:11
R Radim Vrbata 17 4 9 13 -1 17:16
L Steve Sullivan 28 5 7 12 -7 14:36
C Martin Hanzal 22 7 5 12 -4 17:56
L Lauri Korpikoski 31 6 5 11 -3 17:08
C Kyle Chipchura 30 4 6 10 3 9:57
L Raffi Torres 23 5 5 10 -1 13:21
D Derek Morris 26 0 9 9 -6 21:30
C Boyd Gordon 31 0 7 7 -2 14:32
C Matthew Lombardi 17 2 4 6 -1 14:44
R Nick Johnson 17 4 2 6 3 9:57
L Paul Bissonnette 18 0 3 3 1 5:30
D Michael Stone 24 2 1 3 -3 15:12
D Rostislav Klesla 22 1 2 3 -5 18:08
D Zbynek Michalek 25 0 2 2 6 21:08
D David Schlemko 14 0 2 2 0 17:47
C Rob Klinkhammer 6 2 0 2 1 9:29
D David Rundblad 8 0 1 1 -5 13:44
C Alexandre Bolduc 7 0 0 0 -3 8:17
D Chris Summers 6 0 0 0 -3 12:39
C Chris Brown 1 0 0 0 0 6:52
C Andy Miele 1 0 0 0 1 9:02
PHX Goalies:
Jason LaBarbera 8, 1-4-0, 2.20, 0.925
Mike Smith 26, 11-10-3, 2.83, 0.901
THE HOCKEY NEWS - TOTT:
DET - HOT:
Justin Abdelkader 4 pts in last 2 GP
Johan Franzen 3 pts in last 2 GP
Jakub Kindl 2 pts in last 2 GP
Brendan Smith 2 pts in last 2 GP
Jimmy Howard 2-0-0, 1.00, .971 in last 2 GPI
DET - NOT HOT:
Valtteri Filppula 0 pts in last 3 GP
Jonathan Ericsson 0 pts in last 9 GP
Jonas Gustavsson 0-2-0, 4.00, .826 in last 2 GPI
PHX - HOT:
Shane Doan 2 pts in last 2 GP
Jason LaBarbera 0-2-0, 0.90, .967 in last 5 GPI
PHX - NOT HOT:
Mikkel Boedker 1 pts in last 5 GP
Raffi Torres 1 pts in last 5 GP
Keith Yandle 1 pts in last 5 GP
Oliver Ekman-Larsson 1 pts in last 6 GP
Steve Sullivan 0 pts in last 5 GP
Lauri Korpikoski 0 pts in last 10 GP
Mike Smith 0-2-0, 3.29, .882 in last 3 GPI
Injury Report:
DET:
Bertuzzi, Todd Back injury injured reserve
Helm, Darren Back injury injured reserve
Quincey, Kyle Cheekbone injury sidelined indefinitely
Samuelsson, Mikael Broken finger injured reserve
PHX:
Michalek, Zbynek Lower body injury injured reserve
Moss, David Lower body injury day-to-day
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Monster in net, Brunner back in line-up tonight.
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