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Season series: The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Jan. 7 at Scotiabank Saddledome. Flames center Mikael Backlund and Red Wings forwards Henrik Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader each had a goal and an assist.
Flames team scope: Calgary is 3-2-0 on its season-high seven-game road trip after a 4-3 shootout win against the Boston Bruins on Thursday. Goalie Karri Ramo made 34 saves through overtime, then denied seven of eight Boston shooters in the tiebreaker. Ramo has started five straight games, so Jonas Hiller might play in the second half of the back-to-back. Defenseman David Schlemko, who the Flames claimed off waivers from the Dallas Stars last weekend, scored the deciding goal. “[Coach Bob Hartley] just asked me, ‘Are you good at these things?’ And I told him I was 1-for-1,” Schlemko said, according to the Flames’ Twitter account. Forward David Jones sustained a lower-body injury in the first period and did not return. Forwards Jiri Hudler and Sean Monahan each has scored in consecutive games; Monahan’s 23 goals lead the Flames, and Hudler’s 21 are second.
Red Wings team scope: The effects of Detroit’s six-game, 11-day Western Conference road trip were evident in its 2-1 overtime victory against the New York Rangers on Wednesday, when it was outshot 40-31. That fatigue carried into practice Thursday. “We weren’t real crisp today,” coach Mike Babcock told the Red Wings website. “We had a late game last night. I don’t think we had a ton of energy here today, but I expect our energy to be back and us to have no reason to [not] play a lot better than we did. We’ve got to tighten up our game again and get back to the level we need to be at.” One player who was fresh against New York was Zetterberg, who had two assists in 17:56 of ice time in his return to the lineup after missing four games because of a head injury. Defenseman Marek Zidlicky, acquired in a trade with the New Jersey Devils before the NHL Trade Deadline on Monday, scored the overtime winner. He played 17:44 and was second among Detroit defensemen with 2:28 of power-play time. Babcock, who said defenseman Jonathan Ericsson is banged up, will keep forwards Riley Sheahan, Gustav Nyquist and Stephen Weiss together despite not being pleased with his new third line’s performance against the Rangers. “They weren’t very good. Lots of us weren’t good though,” the coach told the Detroit Free Press. “We’ll see if it’s a line that can spend some time in the offensive zone. We’ll give it another try [Friday].”
TEAM STATS
|
GP |
RECORD |
HOME |
ROAD |
L10 |
G/GP |
GA/GP |
PP% |
PK% |
PIM/GP |
S/GP |
SA/GP |
FO% |
|---|
 |
64 |
35-25-4 |
17-12-3 |
18-13-1 |
5-4-1 |
2.78 |
2.56 |
17.9 |
81.1 |
7.6 |
27.2 |
28.8 |
47.8 |
 |
62 |
36-15-11 |
18-5-7 |
18-10-4 |
5-3-2 |
2.89 |
2.44 |
25.2 |
82.6 |
8.5 |
29.6 |
27.9 |
52.6 |
DETROIT RED WINGS
THE MATCHUP
- Tonight is the 154th all-time meetings between DET and CGY
- Tonight marks the 2nd of 2 meetings this season between DET and CGY, only game in DET
- DET’s all-time record vs. CGY: 71-65-16-1
- DET’s all-time home record vs. CGY: 41-23-10-1
- DET won the 1st meeting of the season 3-2 in CGY on 1/7 (Sheahan, Zetterberg, Abdelkader scored for DET; Raymond, Backlund scored for CGY)
- DET has won 3 straight games vs. CGY after losing 6-of-8 between 2011-13
- Pavel Datsyuk has 43 points (12-31-43) in 43 games vs. CGY
- Gustav Nyquist has 4 points (1-3-4) in 3 games vs. CGY
- Henrik Zetterberg has 29 points (16-13-29) in 39 games vs. CGY
- Erik Cole has 10 points (7-3-10) in 18 games vs. CGY
- Jonathan Ericsson played his 1st NHL game on 2/22/08 vs. CGY
- CGY F Jiri Hudler had 214 points (87-127-214) in 409 games for DET from 2003-12
- CGY F Drew Shore is an alumnus of Detroit Honeybaked and played for the USNTDP from 2007-09
- CGY D T.J. Brodie played 4 seasons with the OHL’s Saginaw Spirit (20-87-107 in 170 GP) from 2006-10
- CGY D Corey Potter is from Lansing, Mich., and had 44 points (8-36-44) in 150 games with the Michigan State Spartans from 2002-06
WORKING OVERTIME
Per the Elias Sports Bureau, Marek Zidlicky became the 1st player in Red Wings history to score an OT goal in his 1st game with the team, doing so in the team’s 2-1 win vs. NYR on 3/4. He’s also the 5th player whose 1st goal for DET was scored in OT, joining Duke Keats (1927), Mud Bruneteau (1935), Marian Hossa (2008) and Stephen Weiss (2013). The last NHLer to score an OT goal in his debut with any team was David Tanabe, who did so on 10/10/03 vs. STL while with PHX.
RECENT/UPCOMING MILESTONES
- Babcock won his 450th game with DET on 2/28 at NSH
- Miller played his 400th game with DET on 2/28 at NSH and is 1 goal shy of 50 with DET
- Tatar is 1 goal away from 50
- Quincey is 2 assists shy of 100 in the NHL
- DeKeyser is 3 points from 50
THIS DATE IN RED WINGS HISTORY
March 6, 1996 – Chris Osgood became the 2nd goalie in NHL history to shoot and score a goal in a game, doing so against Hartford. Other goalies who have shot and scored include Ron Hextall (1988, 1989), Martin Brodeur (1997), Jose Theodore (2001), Evgeni Nabokov (2002) and Mike Smith (2014).
CALGARY FLAMES
TONIGHT’S STORYLINES – CALGARY FLAMES vs. DETROIT RED WINGS:
2014-15 Season Series: 0-1-0-0 (Home: 0-1-0-0, Road: 0-0-0-0):
Jan. 7, 2015 DET 3 at CGY 2, Mar. 6, 2015 CGY at DET
2013-14 Season Series: 0-1-1-0 (Home: 0-1-0-0, Road: 0-0-1-0):
Nov. 1, 2013 DET 4 at CGY 3, Dec. 9, 2013 DET 3 vs. CGY 2 (OT)
All-Time Regular Season Record: 66-66-16-3-2
Home: 42-28-6-0-2
Road: 24-38-10-3-0
Last Home Win: April 17, 2013 CGY 3 vs. DET 2
Last Road Win: February 5, 2013 CGY 5 at DET 2
Last Home Loss: January 7, 2015 DET 3 at CGY 2
Last Road Loss: December 9, 2013 DET 3 vs. CGY 2 (OT)
2014-15 Flames Record vs. Opp. Division: Atlantic, 6-5-1-1
RECORD vs. OPPONENT:
LAST TEN CALGARY vs. DETROIT: 5-4-1-0
The Flames have dropped three straight one-goal games to the Red Wings, including one in overtime. Prior to that, Calgary had beaten Detroit in three straight, four-of-five, and five-of-seven meetings. Calgary has taken at least a point at Joe Louis Arena in seven of their last nine games in Michigan, including five wins.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS vs. DETROIT:
Mikael Backlund had his first career multi-goal game in his first meeting with the Red Wings on October 21, 2010.
Flames captain Mark Giordano scored in both his first regular season game against the Detroit on February 11, 2007 and his first postseason meeting with the Red Wings on April 17, 2007.
Following tonight’s game with Detroit, Kris Russell will have played the Michigan club 37 times, the most he has faced any team in the NHL
FORMER CALGARY PLAYERS ON THE DETROIT ROSTER:
There are no players on the Red Wings roster who have played for the Flames.
FORMER DETROIT PLAYERS ON THE CALGARY ROSTER:
Jiri Hudler was drafted by the Red Wings in the 2nd round (58th overall) in the 2002 NHL Draft, the Czech forward played six seasons for Detroit from 2005-06 to 2011-12 where he saw action in 397 games, scoring 86 goals and adding 160 assists for 246 points.
HOW THE FLAMES WERE BUILT:
Draft (7): Backlund, Brodie, Bouma, Ferland, Gaudreau, Monahan, Poirier
Waivers (1): Schlemko
Free Agents (8): Diaz, Engelland, Giordano, Hiller, Hudler, Jooris, Potter, Raymond
Trade (10): Bollig, Byron, Colborne, Jones, Ramo, Russell, Shore, Smid, Stajan, Wideman
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