12/31 GDT: Avalanche 2 at Red Wings 4

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

Versus

Detroit 4, Colorado 2 Final

Tonight's Three Stars
1. Ville Leino
2. Pavel Datsyuk
3. Brandon Yip

Tonight's Stream

Preview- Avalanche at Red Wings
Recap- Red Wings 4, Avalanche 2


TONIGHT'S OFFICIALS
Forthcoming


Colorado: 23-12-6, 52 pts
Last Game: Defeated OTT 4-3 Recap

Detroit: 19-14-6, 44 pts
Last Game: Lost to CBJ 1-0 (OT) Recap

Last DET-COL Meeting: 10/24, DET 1 at COL 3 Recap

Goals
COL Wojtek Wolski and Milan Hejduk: 15
DET Tomas Holmstrom: 13

Assists
COL Paul Stastny: 30
DET Henrik Zetterberg: 22

Plus/Minus
COL Wojtek Wolski: +12
DET Nicklas Lidstrom: +8
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COL Marek Svatos: -9
DET Ville Leino: -9

PIM
COL David Koci: 64
DET Brad May: 53


Bertuzzi-Datsyuk-Holmstrom
Ritola-Filppula-Miller
Draper-Helm-Maltby
May-Abdelkader-Leino

Lidstrom-Rafalski
Lebda-Stuart
Meech-Janik

Projected COL Lines
Wolski-Stastny-Stewart
McLeod-Galiardi-Hejduk
Tucker-O'Reilly-Yip
Durno-Duchene-Hendricks

Quincey-Hannan
Liles-Clark
Foote-Wilson



COL Craig Anderson
19-9-5, 2.67 GAA, .917 SV %, 3 SO


DET Jimmy Howard
12-8-2, 2.26 GAA, .921 SV %, 1 SO


COL David Jones (knee) out, Ruslan Salei (back) out

DET Patrick Eaves (flu) will not play, Henrik Zetterberg (separated shoulder) out, Jonathan Ericsson (knee bruise) out,
Dan Cleary (separated shoulder) out, Niklas Kronwall (sprained MCL) out, Jason Williams (fractured fibula) out,
Johan Franzen (torn ACL) out, Andreas Lilja (concussion) out


Next Game

1/2, Detroit at Phoenix ; 8:00 EST, Jobing.com Arena

Edited January 2, 2010 by Hockeytown0001

[Echolalia 2,961]

I knew there was something I was excited about today! Also, this marks the last of a horrible 2009.

Here's hoping 2010 is much like 2008

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

Gonna be at this one. Hopefully the boys come through with a win. I wanna see my record at the Joe this season improve to 2-0-1 (opening win against Chicago and OT loss to Florida).

[hardcoretom21 71]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! DETROIT WHAT!

[stuck in socal 56]

End '09 on a high note Wings! 2-0 Wings. Goals by Lidstrom and Datsyuk.

[Detroit # 1 Fan 2,204]

Just win baby. Go Wings!!

[TheUkrainian 49]

Wings 3, Avs 0

Datsyuk, Bert, one of the Nicks.

Let's end 2009 on somewhat of a good note

[Z and D for the C 712]

3-1 Loss, sorry but the Wings never seem to play well on new years eve.

[drumnj 459]

Hey, I'm done for a while. You can take my stream link down.

[PrairieDawg 52]

Eaves didn't practice because of the flu, so Leino most likely isn't going to be scratched after all.

[blankrap 9]

Eaves didn't practice because of the flu, so Leino most likely isn't going to be scratched after all.

Article said that eaves is still expected to play thurs...

[cjm502 165]

I thought Leino practiced in place of Maltby.

Nevermind, I forgot Eaves didnt practice...

Edited December 31, 2009 by cjm502

[The Mule 0]

DO IT, BOYS!!!

LET'S GO WINGS!!!! :octo:

[TACKS 0]

Hey.....Avs played last night and are gonna be tired......

Wings......rested and HUNGRY!!!!

3-1 Wings............And a great New Year!

[Hockeytown0001 7,652]

Anyone have a stream for tonight?

[Aussie_Wing 354]

My ideal lines:

Bertuzzi-Datsyuk-Holmstrom

Ritola-Filppula-Eaves

Draper-Helm-Miller

May-Abdelkader-Maltby

Just so long as Maltby stays off the 2nd line I'll be happy enough. Wasn't at all impressed with Miller against Columbus so he'll need to improve. Hoping Flip and Ritola have strong games and the Wings SCORE SOME GOALS.

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

Current Streaks

Regular Season Streaks

Overall: 1-game losing streak (shutout)

Home: 1-game winning streak.

Historical Regular Season Streaks vs. Colorado

Overall: 2-game losing streaks (1 shootout)

Home: 3-game losing streak (2 shootouts).

Last Ten Games

Last Ten Games – Regular Season

Overall: 5W-4L-1OTL

Home: 5W-5L.

Last Ten Games - Historical Regular Season vs. Colorado

Overall: 5W-2L-0OTL-3SOL

Home: 6W-1L-1OTL-2SOL.

Record on this Date

December 31.

This is the 63rd game played on this date. The Club's record in the previous 62 games:

32W-22L-8T.

LGW.

[cusimano_brothers 1,655]

3-1 Loss, sorry but the Wings never seem to play well on new years eve.

Record on this Date

December 31.

This is the 63rd game played on this date. The Club's record in the previous 62 games:

32W-22L-8T.

[Vladifan 680]

Hey, I'm done for a while. You can take my stream link down.

Thanks for doing what you did, Drumnj. I really appreciated it!

[ManLuv4Clears 7]

Hopefully Eaves can go so the Finnish Fail can spend some more time in the press box thinking about what non-sense to say in the paper next.

Go Wings, go Bert, and a safe and happy NYE to everyone here at LGW.

[Octopus's Garden 147]

Eaves out with the flu.

So happy this year is over tonight.

[Detroit # 1 Fan 2,204]

Rough, too bad that Leino's back in. Hopefully the boys can still get the job done.

[chrisdetroit 189]

3-1 Loss, sorry but the Wings never seem to play well on new years eve.

I don't get it. Why would a Wings fan go on a Wings Board and predict that they are going to lose?

Maybe I am missing something.

[Reis710 3]

We need to finish this year on a high note.

Colorado have been playing well lately, but after our loss vs Columbus in which Howard stood on his head on the rest of the team couldn't put the puck in the net I expect a little more from our offense in a way to thank Howard for winning them at least a point.

3-1 Wings

Draper, Filppula, Bertuzzi

Edited December 31, 2009 by Reis710

[Guest mindfly]

I don't get it. Why would a Wings fan go on a Wings Board and predict that they are going to lose?

Maybe I am missing something.

Because they probably will based on how they have played lately?

Edited December 31, 2009 by mindfly