Thanks to a Dan Cleary goal with 3 minutes left in the third period, the Detroit Red Wings finally closed out their series against the Anaheim Ducks. It was a series as close as expected and the first seven game series since the Wings closed out the Colorado Avalanche in 2002.
Anaheim stood tall, coming back [...]
The Wings played exactly the kind of game they had to last night, crushing the Anaheim Mighty Ducks by a score of 6-3 in order to tie their second-round series at 2-2.
The local media has talked, with great obviousness, about how the Wings don’t want to go down 3-1 to the Ducks. Over ninety percent [...]
Detroit, we’ve been here before.
The Red Wings dominated the play for much of the third period and overtime in today’s second round game 2. And still, they skated off the ice with a loss after an opponent’s role player scored the winning goal.
I don’t know what the root cause is here, but I do know [...]
The Wings took the first game of their second-round series with Anaheim last night. My brief thoughts on the game are as follows:
1) Anaheim is a cheap team. Mike Brown’s hit to Jiri Hudler was a hit to the head and appeared obvious to anyone watching. While it’s likely that Brown won’t be suspended for [...]