Wings 9, Coyotes 2
The Detroit Red Wings took on the Phoenix Coyotes for their third game of the regular season in front of the crowd at Joe Louis Arena. I watched the game while working on my english paper so I won’t have play by play comments, but just the goals and random comments Ken Daniels and Mickey Redmond brought up during the action (sometimes it is so random!). You can check out the official scoresheet at NHL.com. The Wings definitely brought their offensive game tonight!
Goals
First Period- Henrik Zetterberg (from Pavel Datsyuk & Nicklas Lidstrom) & Coyotes’ Comrie (from Morris)
Second Period- 3 goals from Mathieu Schneider (Datsyuk got another assist), 1 goal from Jason Williams on the power play (Lidstrom & Zetterberg earned the assists), Datsyuk and Samuelsson also score a goal apiece
Third Period- Kirk Maltby got a goal with an assist by Lidstrom and Draper. Samuelsson scored his second goal of the game with help from Robert Lang. Jovanovski scored for the Coyotes.
Random Facts / Stories
- Earlier today, Tomas Holmstrom went up and shook Curtis Joseph’s hand. CuJo said something like, “I figured I’d see you tonight.” Holmstrom came back with a witty response: “Well, it won’t be face to face.”
- Coyotes’ Jeremy Roenick lost 17 pounds over the summer.
- Greg Johnson will stay with the team and play a role in player development. He had to retire after an EKG test came back with an abnormal result, details about what’s wrong have yet to be released. His salary ($500,000) will not count against the cap.
- Brad Norton now uses Steve Yzerman’s former stall.
- Manny Legace was called Jimmy Buffer when he sat in between CuJo and Hasek in the dressing room.
- Holmstrom and Franzen sit on the same side of dressing room as the two goalies. A player joked that Ozzie was added to make that side of the room better looking.
- Schneider notched his second ever career hat trick in tonight’s game.
- Toward the end of the second period, the Wings notched three goals one minute and thirty-eight seconds apart.
- The Wings went 2 for 5 on the power play tonight.
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October 11th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
Well, Hell! Just make the Blue Jackets’ 5-1 drubbing of the ‘Yotes the other day look like nothing special, why don’t they? XD Ah well. CuJo and company must be wanting to find a nice, dark corner to curl up in and cry together after what’s happened to them so far this week.
October 12th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Michael - I’m glad the Wings could help you out with that.