Warm-Up: Detroit @ Washington

Wings - Caps, Wings - Caps, Wings - Caps!

Not as fun as this...

But still fun none-the-less.




The Warm - Up:

The Wings are coming off of a fresh win last night, beating that team from that town in Ohio that's home to that school that I can't name because it's football Saturday and also because I'm a Michigan grad. ANYWAYS, the Wings won 5-2 and Franzen almost gave us all free curly fries. The power play lit up for the Wings last night and Jonathan Ericsson did something useful and beat up a guy. (Derek Dorsett reportedly left the Joe with a nice shiner from Big E.)

Tonight, the Wings face Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in a battle royale. These two teams are the only undefeated teams left in the NHL which makes tonight's game a bigger deal apparently. The Caps are 6-0-0, Wings 5-0-0. And though this game will give one of these teams with their first loss, I'm personally more excited to hear what stupid things Ovi has to say tonight. He's full of one-liners and wit. See: Exhibit A

Injuries/Scratches:

Mike Commodore -Knee
Tomas Holmstrom -Healthy Scratch

Other Notes:

The Perfect Human, Nicklas Lidstrom will be playing his 1,500th career game tonight. He's played every. single. one. of those games wearing the winged-wheel. Unbelievable. Lidstrom will be the 14th player in NHL history to reach the milestone. Congratulations, Nick! ...But let's all be honest, the dude probably has another 800 games or so left in him, right?

Fabian Brunnstrom will get his debut as a Wing tonight. Hopefully the skill we saw in preseason from this kid will come over into the regular season. He'll be playing on the fourth line with Eaves and Miller tonight.

Finally... one of the Rundown Roomies pointed out last night that questioning Mule about his "streaky-ness" is pretty dumb. I have to agree. Leave the Mule alone, let him play his game and stop asking him questions about how long his point streak or scoring streak will last. Please and thank you.


Predictions:

Final Score:
Stef- 3-1, Wings
Danielle- 2-1, Capitals

Player of the Game
Stef- Nicklas Lidstrom
Danielle - Todd Bertuzzi

As always, GO WINGS!

The Rundown: In your face, goalie!

Well the Wings beat Ovi and the Caps in what was a pretty good game.

Before we start, I just want to say how much I really enjoy the Washington Capitals. Ever since the HBO 24/7 special, I've gained a ton of respect and a new perspective of this team... yeah.. they're becoming one of my new favorite non-wings team (yeah, those exist.)

1st Period-

Heard most of the 1st period in the car.

Zetterberg had a nice one-timer to get the Wings up on the board first. 1-0 Wings.

But what would you know, the Caps come back seconds later and tie it up. 1-1.

Brian Rafalski pass to Filppula who was in front of the net, seemed like a lot of chaos was going on at the time. However, Filppula shot the puck (what?!) and scored. Before the game started I told my dad that Filppula would score a goal. Yeah, I was right. No big deal. Fil was just representing us Finns on St. Urho's Day. 2-1, Wings.


Second Period-

It was only a matter of time before Ovi scored. 2-2. Mike Knuble had a nice chance for the caps to go up, but Jimmy Howard was like "Hell no, bitch." Denied. I also want to add that I told my dad Ovechkin would score a goal tonight. I wish I was making this stuff up, but this game is going pretty much as I predicted. All I need now is a Helm goal and a Datsyuk goal oh and a Mike Knuble goal... then I'll go play the lottery.

Did anyone else get chills when Mickey started talking about Konstantinov??


Third Period-

So Zetterberg got hit, there should have been a penalty. But you know what... its all good that the ref's suck at their job because Z got the puck and scored... off of the face of Capitals goalie, Michal Neuvirth. 3-2 Wings.

Jimmy gave us a bit of a scare with SECONDS left in the game. The Caps fired a shot and got the goal post. I thought for sure we were going for another OT and another shootout. Thank god THAT didn't happen.




Anyways... The Red Wings Win the Good Ol' Hockey Game! We ended the Capitals win streak and now we're carrying on a nice streak of our own.
Also, my pre-game prediction didn't completely come true. Oh well...

Broadcaster Quote of the Game-
"That ain't wood down there"- Ken Daniels

Up Next, The Bluejackets, tomorrow.


Go Wings!

Warm-Up: Washington @ Detroit

Warm-Up:

Detroit welcomes Mr. Ovechkin and the Capitols tonight at the Joe. The Caps have been on fire lately winning their past nine games. The Wings have won the past two. I for one, am very excited about tonight's game. Well I was.. until about 5 minutes ago when I got word that the Wings were calling up JoeyMac...again... Where does that put Ozzie? Needless to say.. I just had a major freak-out moment. (yes I know Ozzie wasn't going to play tonight anyway, but still.)

On a happier note- it should be fun to see Ovi play against Pavel. Plus there seems to be a lot of fuss about the last time Jimmy Howard faced Ovechkin and how Howard is looking for "revenge." I'm pretty sure Jimmy isn't looking for any revenge, he's probably just looking for a win.


Injuries/Scratches-

Eaves is scratched tonight. He's good to go though whenever he comes back though.
Salei is also out, hes with his wife who's ready to have their third child any time now.

Miller is also a scratch.

Osgood is out tonight too. He reported that he is not ready to play yet after coming off of sports hernia surgery.

Other Notes-
If Ovechkin gets an Ovechtrick I might have to look into getting his jersey...

Predictions-

Final Score:
Stef: 3-2, Wings
Danielle: 4-3, Wings

Player of the Game-
Stef: Nicklas Lidstrom
Danielle: Valterri Filppula (its a Finnish holiday, let's have the Finn have some fun)