1/27 GDT: Red Wings 2 at Blue Jackets 3 (OT)

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

VS

Preview- Red Wings at Blue Jackets

Detroit: 31-9-6, 15-6-4 Road Record, 68 pts; 1st in Central Division, 2nd Overall in Western Conference

Last Game: Lost to PHX 6-3 Recap

Columbus: 22-20-5, 13-7-1 Home Record, 49 pts; 3rd in Central Division, 10th Overall in Western Conference

Last Game: Lost to CAL 5-4 Recap

Last DET-CBJ meeting: 1/6, CBJ 0 at DET 3 Recap

Goals

DET Marian Hossa: 22

CBJ Rick Nash: 19

Assists

DET Pavel Datsyuk: 37

CBJ Rick Nash: 24

Plus/Minus

DET Pavel Datsyuk: +21

CBJ Jan Hejda: +17

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DET Kris Draper: -12

CBJ Kris Russel and Andrew Murray: -8

PIM

DET Andreas Lilja: 36

CBJ Jared Boll: 111

Holmstrom-Zetterberg-Hossa

Filppula-Franzen-Samuelsson

Hudler-Draper-Cleary

Kopecky-Hossa?-Maltby

(11 skaters, looks like they'll double-shift

Zetterberg and maybe Hossa to replace Datsyuk)

Kronwall-Rafalski

Lebda-Lilja

Meech-Chelios

DET Chris Osgood

15-3-5, 3.23 GAA, .883 SV %, 0 SO

CBJ Steve Mason

17-11-2, 2.05 GAA, .926 SV %, 6 SO

DET Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk (suspended), Brad Stuart (knee/ribs) out,

Darren McCarty (groin) out

CBJ Derick Brassard (shoulder) out, Pascal Leclaire (ankle) out, Jason Chimera (groin) questionable,

Nikita Filatov (leg) out, Kristian Huselius (wrist) questionable, Rostislav Klesla (lower body) out,

Jiri Novotny (upper body) questionable, Michael Peca (leg) questionable

[seeinred 1,488]

Wings win big to prove a point. I'll say 14 to 3. Datsyuk gets 7 and 7, and Nick gets the other 7 goals.

Oh wait...

[55fan 5,133]

Yay! A GDT! How I've missed these.

Wow, that's a banged-up bunch of Jackets.

I wish I didn't have to miss this one, but I'll be reading the GDT to relive the magic.

Wings take this one 2-1.

Hossa, Hudler

Nash

Many protest signs will be seen.

[kylee 727]

im very excited that the NHL is back in action, but im sad that Lidstrom and Datsyuk are ....suspended.

looking forward to a hard fought and competitive game.

go ozzie, go wings!

[Duck Guy 86]

Should be a good one this game + Boston game = should be a good hockey night ^^

Wings win 5-3

[Wingsallwin 0]

Hopefully this long ASG break helped our boys. Think Ozzie will play good and Hank and Hossa will produce lots of points.

Wings take this game, I guess by 4-2, will not be an easy game because we have not played for a week and dumb Bettman suspended Pasha and Nick.

[Casey 145]

Why is Mason playing if he skipped the Young Stars game? Is it not the same rules as the ASG?

[seeinred 1,488]

Why is Mason playing if he skipped the Young Stars game? Is it not the same rules as the ASG?

No, it's not. They've been discussing adding a YSG provision similar to that of the ASG though.

[mjlegend 155]

No, it's not. They've been discussing adding a YSG provision similar to that of the ASG though.

Mason played two games, back to back on the road in Edmonton and Calgary, got to take the elbow-rubbing weekend off, and now rested, takes on the Wings sans Lidsttrom and Datsyuk.

f*** you, Gary Bettman.

4-1 Wings. The Wings fire 45 shots, Hossa gets three goals and the team starts a 12-game winning streak.

EDIT:

I also like to mention I enjoy imagining ESAD and esteef's slow burn upon reading these and realizing our leading penalty guy has less PIMs than games.

Edited January 27, 2009 by mjlegend

[Guest mindfly]

Kronwall has to step up big time now and be responsible in his own zone to make up the gap of lidstrom's absence

[FinRedWing 172]

Thanks to some extra motivation this one's a W.

3-2 WINGS (Hossa,Z & Rafalski)

(J-Will 1G,1A)

[HadThomasVokounOnFortSt 878]

Wings- 5

Blue Jackets- 2

[HOCKEY MATTERS 167]

I'm in school till 8 but this prof sometimes lets us out early. I'll be taping this one cuz I heard a rumor..... 12 scantily clad girls are lacing up skates and will sneak on to the ice, 6 wearing Lids masks and 6 wearing Dats masks. Bettman, who is sharing some nice popcorn with Cindy while they watch, calls Babs on his cell phone to say the whole team has to fly to Montreal to play those puck shooting bears or the NHL season is called off. Cindy is heard snivelling in the backgroud that Lids and Dats should both get another 6 game "suspension" each for playing mean tricks.

[Datsyerberger 279]

Great GDT as usual, but the reasons for Datsyuk and Lidstrom being out (suspension) needs to be changed to "Bettman'd" -- if it were a real suspension, mangement would be allowed to appeal it and the NHLPA would be crapping bricks.

[OsGOD 3]

Hate to miss this game... Boll is going to attempt to break some heads....

and,

I'm Rick Nash *****!

[Never_Retire_Steve 35]

So I see last game the following happened....

Datsyuk scores goal 1

Lidstrom gets the primary assist on goal 2

Datsyuk gets the primary assist on goal 3

Man I sure hope Datsyuk and Lidstrom play as good as last game

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

Streaks

Season Streaks

Overall: 2-game losing streak

Road: 2-game losing streak.

Streaks vs. Columbus

Overall: 5-game winning streak (1 shutout) edit

Road: 1-game winning streak.

Record on this date

This is the 32nd game played on January 27. edit

The Club's record in the last 31 games:

13W-12L-6T.

LGW.

Edited January 27, 2009 by cusimano_brothers

[esteef 2,679]

Display those signs proudly!!!

esteef

Edited January 27, 2009 by esteef

[PenaltyShot 96 521]

This will be quite a test for the rest of the team to step it up without our top Dman and our leader in assists. If they are rested enough and pissed off enough they can do it. And welcome back Franzen!!

Wings - 3 (Zetterberg, Hudler, Draper)

BJs - 2

We should all watch for great signs and vote on a winner.

[Hockeytown Red Wings 245]

I'll be at the game!

Looking forward to seeing some meaningful hockey again. And I havent see a Red Wings win in almost two weeks!

[HockeyCrazy3033 168]

Yay finally! I miss our boys.

4-2 win. Cleary and Huds with 2 each.

LETS GO WINGS!!! GO OZZIE!!!

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

Display those signs proudly!!!

esteef

[Nev 1,085]

If the wings are half as angry about the suspensions as I am, then they will come out flying. Fact is, they're probably actually 10 times as angry about them than me, judging by their comments from the practise yesterday. Ozzie even talked about the league being against them.

This siege mentality means the Wings will dominate tonight 4-1 and are about to go on a big win streak. "**** you Bettman '09" starts tonight.

[The Mule 0]

Ridiculous that Dats and Lids are out, but we still win tonight.

4-1. Hoss, Zetts, Huds, and Mule.

[Casey 145]

They'll come out ticked, and crush everyone in their path for about 10 games straight. Can Pavel and Lids ride the bench?