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GDT - Game 34: Red Wings (17-11-5) at Sharks (15-11-6) 10:30

03/28/2013 at 9:05am EDT

DET are riding a 37 Corona and a 3 game road-winning streak into San Jose to finish a 4 game west coast swing. The Wings are, improbably sitting 5 in the WC today; thanks in no small part to the their strong defensive play, including one Jimmy-freaking-Howard.

SJS are playing their 3rd game in 4 nights, but are coming off a home-and-home sweep of the Ducks.

My mother told me, before she passed away, that son when I'm gone don't forget to pray; because there'll be hard times.

#9 celebrates his 85th Birthday on Sunday. The Wings, and a bunch of players from around the league, wish him a happy birthday - very cool for one very cool Mr. Hockey.

SEASON RECORD:

DET: 33 GP, 17-11-5, 39 pts, (5 in Conf, 2 in Central), 90 GF, 83 GA, Last 10 6-3-1, WON 3

SJS: 32 GP, 15-11-6, 36 pts, (8 in Conf, 3 in Pacific), 80 GF, 82 GA, Last 10 4-4-2, WON 2

DET ROAD: 8-6-2 (11)

SJS HOME: 9-1-4 (4)

TEAM STATISTICS:

DET: 0.591 point% (10), 2.67 G/G (16), 2.46 GA/G (7), 1.21 5-5 F/A (6), 17.6 PP% (19), 78.9 PK% (23), 29.5 S/G (13), 28.5 SA/G (14), 51.6 FO% (6)

SJS: 0.563 point% (13), 2.34 G/G (26), 2.47 GA/G (9), 0.90 5-5 F/A (21), 17.9 PP% (16), 86.6 PK% (3), 31.1 S/G (5), 29.0 SA/G (17), 53.1 FO% (2)

Goal Differential/Game:

DET = +0.21

SJS = -0.13

PLAYER STATS:

DET Skaters:

POS Player GP G A PTS +/- ATOI

C Pavel Datsyuk 32 11 24 35 14 20:03
L Henrik Zetterberg 33 8 24 32 0 20:23
D Niklas Kronwall 33 5 19 24 -5 24:08 #3 in points by defenseman.
C Damien Brunner 32 10 11 21 -7 16:39
C Johan Franzen 26 7 11 18 9 18:18
C Valtteri Filppula 26 6 7 13 0 17:36
D Jakub Kindl 26 3 8 11 17 17:52 #3 Defenseman +/-, no kidding, for real.
R Daniel Cleary 33 7 3 10 -3 16:32
D Jonathan Ericsson 30 2 8 10 3 21:25
L Justin Abdelkader 33 6 2 8 2 14:10
L Drew Miller 33 4 3 7 -2 13:49
C Joakim Andersson 23 3 4 7 6 11:10
C Tomas Tatar 18 4 3 7 2 11:22
R Patrick Eaves 23 1 5 6 4 10:45
R Jordin Tootoo 30 2 3 5 2 9:16
C Cory Emmerton 33 2 3 5 0 10:50
D Ian White 20 2 2 4 4 19:42
D Brian Lashoff 28 1 3 4 -7 17:52
R Todd Bertuzzi 7 2 1 3 3 15:31
D Brendan Smith 22 0 3 3 3 18:38
D Kyle Quincey 26 1 1 2 8 19:11
C Gustav Nyquist 8 1 1 2 1 12:14
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 6, 2-2-1, 2.68, 0.891

SJS Skaters:

C Joe Thornton 32 5 24 29 4 18:56
C Logan Couture 32 14 11 25 4 18:03
C Patrick Marleau 32 16 8 24 -4 19:15
C Joe Pavelski 32 9 11 20 -2 19:01
D Dan Boyle 30 5 10 15 -2 23:02
R Martin Havlat 25 4 7 11 3 16:05
C Scott Gomez 26 2 8 10 -9 14:17
L Ryane Clowe 26 0 10 10 -6 16:18
C Tommy Wingels 26 3 7 10 -5 13:58
D Brent Burns 14 4 5 9 -3 16:57
D Matt Irwin 23 5 4 9 -4 19:02
L TJ Galiardi 20 1 5 6 0 12:34
D Brad Stuart 32 0 5 5 3 20:34
D Marc-Edouard Vlasic 32 1 4 5 2 21:22
C James Sheppard 24 1 3 4 -7 11:27
D Justin Braun 25 0 3 3 -4 18:23
R Adam Burish 31 1 1 2 -6 10:02
L Tim Kennedy 12 2 0 2 -3 13:38
C Michal Handzus 28 1 1 2 -9 13:32
C Andrew Desjardins 26 0 1 1 -6 9:34
D Jason Demers 14 1 0 1 -5 18:42
R Matt Pelech 2 0 0 0 0 9:03
C Bracken Kearns 1 0 0 0 0 12:04
D Nick Petrecki 1 0 0 0 0 11:58

SJS Goalies:

Antti Niemi 28, 14-8-5, 2.22, 0.922
Thomas Greiss 4, 1-3-0, 2.78, 0.906
Alex Stalock 2, 0-0-1, 2.86, 0.846

THE HOCKEY NEWS - TOTT:

DET - HOT:

Johan Franzen 4 pts in last 3 GP
Niklas Kronwall 2 pts in last 2 GP
Dan Cleary 2 pts in last 2 GP
Jakub Kindl 3 pts in last 3 GP
Ian White 2 pts in last 2 GP
Brendan Smith 2 pts in last 3 GP
Jimmy Howard 2-0-0, 1.00, .971 in last 2 GPI

DET - NOT HOT:

Damien Brunner 2 pts in last 6 GP
Valtteri Filppula 0 pts in last 4 GP
Jonathan Ericsson 0 pts in last 10 GP
Jonas Gustavsson 1-1-0, 3.50, .865 in last 2 GPI

SJS - HOT:

Brent Burns 3 pts in last 2 GP
Tommy Wingels 3 pts in last 2 GP
Joe Pavelski 3 pts in last 2 GP
Martin Havlat 3 pts in last 2 GP
Dan Boyle 2 pts in last 2 GP
Antti Niemi 2-0-0, 1.50, .939 in last 2 GPI

SJS - NOT HOT:

Patrick Marleau 1 pts in last 4 GP
Matt Irwin 1 pts in last 4 GP
Jason Demers 0 pts in last 4 GP

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

SJS:

Greiss, Thomas Sore neck injured reserve
Kennedy, Tim Undisclosed injured reserve

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Wednesday practice:

Miller staying up with Zetterberg/Filppula. Other lines: 8-13-93, 11-63-24; 14-25-22; 17 working in with bottom six.

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