Wings get jump and they keep it
Up and down. Quick as a minute. The compass was broken at Joe Louis Arena, and the game had only two directions: north and south. It was a track meet, a caffeinated pogo stick, all breathless goals and breathless chances. Fortunately, the Red Wings had three of the...
Way back for Wings? First, get up the ice
It is never good, in the sports world, to be worried about your “own end,” not in horse racing, not in sumo wrestling and certainly not in hockey.But the Red Wings’ own end is where trouble is brewing, and has been brewing, and it needs to be fixed...
Wings still have sense of the moment
ANAHEIM, Calif. When your liabilities become your assets, you finally can start smiling. Here, at last, was Valtteri Filppula – who in the first six games of this playoff series had dropped in fan opinion like an anchor with an anchor tied to it – and a...
A terrible start and worse finish
Mitch Albom SAYS HOWARD DID IT ALL, BUT his MATES DID LITTLEA terrible start and worse finishANAHEIM, Calif. For much of the night in this critical Game 5, the Red Wings and the Ducks needed a case of Red Bull.And Jimmy Howard needed a sedative. Howard went high, low,...
Rookies tie it up in unlikely fashion
MITCH ALBOM REMINDS FANS HOW THE WINGS’ YOUTH GIVES AND TAKES AWAYRookies tie it up in unlikely fashionGoalie down. That’s what you saw. After three crazy periods and 15 minutes of overtime, a flock of Red Wings rookies came after Jonas Hiller and finally,...
Can’t agree with the refs on this one
MITCH ALBOM ANALYZES HOW WINGS BLEW CHANCE TO CONTROL THE SERIES Can’t agree with the refs on this oneThe head is attached to the body. You attack one, you’ll affect the other, and to the naked eye, at the speed of hockey, it is damn hard to know how much...
Game 4Red Wings vs. Predators Nashville 3, Detroit 1Pred alert
It was one of those movies where the heroes keep pulling out bigger and bigger guns, spraying bullets, launching missiles, firing rockets, until they finally stop and scratch their heads, because the monster doesn’t have a dent.The monster in this case is Pekka...
Recharged
After every Red Wings’ score, Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury has a habit of skating to the corner to try to get his anger out. Saturday night, there were a lot of quick trips. The Wings would score, Fleury would skate to the corner – and into a sea of Wings fans cheering and banging the glass. Finding no relief, he’d curl back to his net.
He did this after the first, the second, the third and the fourth Detroit goals. Finally, after the fifth, he took a longer skate – all the way to his bench, clomping through the door, and headed down the tunnel, done for the night.
No Kidding
PITTSBURGH – Uh-oh.
This is not good. I don’t want to say signs are ominous, but if the Red Wings passed a fortune teller right now, they would hide their palms in their pockets. The stars came out for the Penguins on Thursday night, and it is officially no longer last year anymore.
Last year, the Stanley Cup finals were never tied. Last year, the only team with a chance to win in six was the Wings. Last year, Sidney Crosby seemed a lot younger, and Evgeni Malkin seemed like just one man, instead of the five he looked like in Game 4 – here, there, everywhere.
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