Game #1: Wings 4, Avs 3
Last night, the Detroit Red Wings took an early 3-1 lead in the first period. Franzen scored just over a minute into the second period to give the Wings a 4-1 lead. Despite playing without Peter Forsberg, who pulled his groin during the morning skate, the Avs made it interesting with two more goals in the second period. Neither team could score in the third period leaving Detroit with the 4-3 victory.
You can view photos of the game taken by my dad here in this Flickr gallery.
Upon Karen Newman’s completion of the national anthem, a large octopus was thrown onto the ice. Thanks to the office twirling ban, the linesmen had to scoop it up. However, they really took their time doing so which only made it worse. You need to quickly pick it up so that any “matter” does not remain stuck to the ice.
After they picked up the octopus, they gave it to Al in the zamboni pit. He then twirled it like crazy and still was able to get the crowd pumped up.
Zetterberg, who was just named a finalist for the Selke earlier today, scored first for the Wings (and less than a minute after Stastny’s goal). It was just the goal that Detroit needed to stop the momentum the Avs had just earned by scoring.
Zetterberg is a Frank Selke Trophy finalist for the first time. He led Red Wings forwards in average ice time per game (22:04) and ranked second to Datsyuk among Detroit forwards in plus-minus with a +30 rating. Zetterberg led the Red Wings in face-offs taken (1,210) and was second on the club to Kris Draper in face-off winning percentage (55.0%). The Red Wings posted the top defensive record in the NHL with 184 goals-against.
Zetterberg’s goal in the first period.
Of course we saw the work from the Norris finalist, Nicklas Lidstrom, all night. My favorite photo that my dad took last night was this beauty of Ryan Smyth giving Lidstrom a hard time in front of Osgood.
Joe Hass will liveblog Saturday’s game for BTJ readers so be sure to stop by BTJ during the game tomorrow!
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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