3/4 7PM Red Wings at Lightning

[1984Echoes]

Detroit Red Wings, 24-24-6, 8-13-3 AWAY

ESPN+

3/4

7:00 PM

 

Tampa Bay Lightning, 35-11-6, 18-4-4 HOME

 

 

 

[1984Echoes]

Power Play is still looking dysfunctional...

[gehringer_2]

Bertuzzi with the stick, Seider makes the play, Fabbri gets the goal.

Wings being outshot more than 2:1 tie the game.

Edited March 5, 2022 by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

Wings  pick it up in the 2nd half of the 2nd period, carried the play well other than one bad sequence with about a minute left. What do they have left for the 3rd?

[lordstanley]

Tough back to back here and then tomorrow against the Panthers. Wings playing decently in this difficult stretch of games.

[gehringer_2]

59 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Power Play is still looking dysfunctional...

2nd PP looked much better. Didn't get the puck on the net much but held the play in and pressured well.

[buddha]

seider driving the play more and more.

[lordstanley]

Fabbri just missed another, should have had it after a set up from Bertuzzi.

[gehringer_2]

wings fight off 110 seconds of a Tampa PP, then lose a defensive zone face off and give up the goal.

Looked like  Oesterle could have made the shot deflection and didn't.

Edited March 5, 2022 by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

30 minutes ago, buddha said:

seider driving the play more and more.

the most dominant Wing player without a doubt. He's passed both Larkin and Bertuzzi

[gehringer_2]

Wings get a decent chance for Betuzzi at 6 on 5 but take a penalty with 50 seconds left.

[lordstanley]

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Wings get a decent chance for Betuzzi at 6 on 5 but take a penalty with 50 seconds left.

That usually would mean all she wrote, but the Wings actually had a half-chance with 15 seconds to go.

Tampa 3, Detroit 1, Final

[gehringer_2]

I've been trying to guess how much better they will be with Berggren, Vrana and Edvinsson, and wondering how Yzerman is going to come up the rest of the offense they would still need, or if '22-'23 will be another tread water year.

[1984Echoes]

If Soderblom could make the cut/ NHL this year... another weapon...

[1984Echoes]

I'd like one more top 4 defenseman to start with.

Allowing for the option of either pairing Edvinsson with Seider, or splitting them up to create two dominant defensive pairings. A coach could mix and match as needed.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, 1984Echoes said:

I'd like one more top 4 defenseman to start with.

Allowing for the option of either pairing Edvinsson with Seider, or splitting them up to create two dominant defensive pairings. A coach could mix and match as needed.

Yup. The PP kill sure suffers when the first unit has to rotate off.

This one was frustrating because they played well enough from about the 30 minute mark to have at least picked up one point. 

The other thing on my wish list would be to make the goalie crease about 4 feet bigger and then cut down the size of the goalie equipment. I don't really much care for the number of goals scored by screening the goalie, but you would have to give the shooters some advantage back if you force the screeners away. In that regard I actually think the curved crease is worse than the old rectangular one because it's the corners where I would like to see the goalie have more unobstructed space back.