Wings 7, Blackhawks 2
In their regular season finale, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks, 7-2. Mikael Samuelsson had quite a game notching five points including two goals. It has to be a boost to his confidence since he has only scored one goal since January 7th.
A few milestones came during the game…
- Wings win their 50th game of the season, 4th time in franchise history.
- Tomas Holmstrom scored his 30th goal of the season, a career best. It’s pretty impressive considering Homer had a 19 game goal drought during the season.
- Kyle Quincey scored his first NHL career goal.
- Kyle Calder scored his 100th career goal (he scored twice today).
Other notables…
- Danny Markov scored a goal and notched an assist in the second goal of the game.
- Robert Lang had two assists.
- Chris Osgood (goaltender) was given an assist on Samuelsson’s second goal. He made 19 saves on 21 shots.
- The Blackhawks spent plenty of time in the penalty box with 11 minor penalties, a fighting major, a boarding major, a 10 minute misconduct, and two game misconducts.
- The Wings outshot Chicago, 39-21.
- Detroit won 63% of the faceoffs.
Interestingly enough, the Wings scored 7 goals without a single point from Pavel Datsyuk. As most of you know, Datsyuk signed a seven year contract extension yesterday. GM Ken Holland said during intermission of the game today that the Wings had offered Datsyuk a five year deal in October, but after negotiating during the season ended up offering a seven year deal (the longest in franchise history).
Dominik Hasek, Todd Bertuzzi, and Henrik Zetterberg did not play, but all three are expected to play in the first game of the playoffs. GM Ken Holland told Ken Roberts today that Zetterberg is not at 100% quite yet. Todd Bertuzzi should be cleared early this week to return to play after suffering a minor concussion during Thursday’s game after colliding with Wings’ goaltender Chris Osgood.
NHL Playoffs
The playoff schedule has not been made yet, but Holland says that the first game for the Wings will be on Thursday or Friday with Sunday being game two. As of this afternoon, the Wings don’t know who they will face in the first round. It’ll be either Calgary or Colorado and all Calgary has to do is win one game or have Colorado lose one game to clinch their playoff spot. Calgary scares me a bit so I’d prefer to play Colorado, but it doesn’t seem likely.
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