Game Thread: Red Wings @ Avalanche - 2|5|2015 - 9:00 PM NBCSN

[Winged_Wheel88]

Thursday, February 5th, 2015
9:00 PM

AWAY TEAM HOME TEAM
(29-12-9, 67 pts) (22-18-11, 55 pts)


(Road: 12-8-3, 27 pts) (Home: 13-9-3, 29 pts)
3rd Atl Division 5th Cen Division
3rd Eastern Conference 9th Western Conference
25.6% PP (1st in NHL) 13.0% PP (29th in NHL)
82.7% PK (11th in NHL) 83.5% PK (7th in NHL)
(Last 10: 8-2-0, 16 pts) (Last 10: 5-2-3, 13 pts)

 

[sherbert1421]

seems like forever since the wings last played

 

[detroit_schlegs]

Here's hoping that we can keep pace with the front-runners TB & NYI tonight, but to do that we'll need a very solid game from the defensive core. That will determine the direction of this game IMO. I took the night off from coaching, so that I could hopefully watch the boys sneak past the Habs in the standings.

 

[detroit_schlegs]

Iggy has been on a streak lately, and we need to cover him with a blanket or a pit bull.

 

[sherbert1421]

Eircsson and mackinnnon in a fight? That was unexpected

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Dunno what MacKinnon was so pissed about. He put himself in that awkward position to begin with, and if anything Big E could have hit him a lot worse.

Best of both worlds - Wings win a fight for a change and Big E not on the ice for five minutes!

 

[Cobiemonster]

wtf Nathan MacKinnon drops the gloves

 

[Wingingit]

Throw back fight night tonight??

Going back to the 90's

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

All of the Detroit players dads are on this road trip, giving their kids even more reason to win - if they lose, they will have to put up with endless questions like, "Why didn't you complete this or that pass?" and "You gotta skate faster out there" and, the traditional favorite going back to the beginning of time, "So what the fuck happened?"

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Boo.

EDIT: Let's hope it isn't going to be that Mraczek tonight. Get Direct TV.

DOUBLE EDIT: Woooo! Hand pass nullifies the goal...not sure if right call, but I'll take it.

 

[sherbert1421]

Not a good start

 

[sherbert1421]

Wow. Hand pass and no goal

 

[Wingingit]

Wing got a break on that one

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

I need more replays, but the last one they showed made it seem like good call.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Interesting. Puck clearly hit Quincey but they ruled no possession.

 

[Wingingit]

I need more replays, but the last one they showed made it seem like good call.

Bounced off of Quincey, but I guess there calling it incidental contact.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Good call, IMO. Seems like it was just the conference, not a video review. Good to see the officials get together to get it right.

 

[sherbert1421]

Bounced off of Quincey, but I guess there calling it incidental contact.

From my understanding, in order for the hand pass to be nullified, a wings player would have had to had possession of the puck

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Did I just read on the bottom scroll that Victor Martinez will have surgery for a torn meniscus and is out indefinitely?

 

[detroit_schlegs]

How is that a penalty on Weiss? They are both going for the puck in the same direction, and Weiss had a half step on the Avs player, as he got his shoulder in front of the right side of his body. Bullshit call.