Monday, February 20, 2012
Detroit
Record: 52-20-10
Leader Goals: 36 Filppula, Franzen
Leader Assist: 69 Datsyuk
Leader Points: Datsyuk 104pts
Leader Pims: 132 Regher
Lines:
Filppula-Datsyuk-Jurco
Franzen-Zetterberg-Nyquist
Abdelkader-Helm-Tatar
Regin-Emmerton-Eaves
Lidstrom-Smith
Regher-Kronwall
Murray-White
Howard
St. Louis
41-34-7
Leader Goals: 31 Stewart
Leader Assist: 47 Berglund
Leader Points: 73
Leader Pims: 133 Jackman, Backes
Lines:
Perron-Berglund-Backes
Grachev-Oshie-Stewart
Langenburnner-Steen-D'agostini
Sobotka-Mitchell-Crombeen
Martinek-Jackman
Pietrangelo-Shattenkrik
Polak-Stoner
Halak
Friday, February 17, 2012
Redwings and Sabres deal at the Trade Deadline
Detroit went into the trade deadline really not looking to make any big changes to the team. They were sitting on top of the West and fighting with Pittsburgh for 1st overall. The offense was firing on all cylinders and the defense was starting to come around.
Detroit's Gm Ken Holland took plenty of calls from teams making offers
"some were just way out there, no chance it would even happen" - Gm Ken Holland said about some of the deals
Buffalo had made a couple offers already to Detroit but nothing that really interested Detroit or its Gm. Until Regher's name was added to the mix.
"We talked about a few players, but they threw out Regher's name and it went from there" -Holland
the deal went down as this:
acquires: Robyn Regher
acquires: Dan Cleary, 2013 2nd rd pickKen Holland on the deal:
Quote: 
Cleary has been a great player for us but this season we had some younger guys step in and really show that they belong on the roster. Cleary was a healthy scratch at times this season. We also had 2 1st rd picks so adding the 2nd rd pick was really not a big deal. Adding Regher to our blueline will give us that physical dman back there. Adds another veteran to the blueline.
Regher will be penciled in next to Niklas Kronwall when he comes back from injury.
the blueline when everyone is healthy:
Lidstrom - Smith (smith was playing very good paired with Lidstrom before he got hurt he will be back here when he is back.)
Regher- Kronwall
Murray-Kindl/Ericsson
*Kindl and Ericsson will find themselves competing for the final defensive spot. Kindl has the inside track right now.
Coach Alcide on the new addition
Quote: Regher is a great addition to our team. A big dman who has no problem dropping the gloves. It will give us another dimension. He may at times pair up with Lidstrom.
Trades from around the NHL on deadline day:
To Min: I. Vishnevsky, 2014 4th rd pick
To SJ: M. Kassian
To Chi: S. Sullivan, 2013 6th rd pick
To Nyi- T. Laakso
To Min- TJ Hensick, 2013 & 2014 4th rd picks
To Stl- Ty Conklin, J. Broda
To Min- A. Nittymaki
To SJ- 2013 1st rd pick, J. Faulk
To Fla: 2013 1st rd pick, M. Mayorov
To Cmb: J. Markstrom, A. Murray
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Detroit AP- Detroit suffered 2 injuries on the blueline recently. Brendan Smith was hurt in a game against Minnesota (1/23/2013). Smith suffered a MCL sprain and will be out until April 1, 2013. Niklas Kronwall suffered a concussion in a win against Nashville (2/25/2013) and is out untill Mar 13, 2013. Andrew Campbell (acquried in a trade earlier in the season ) was called up from Grand Rapids.
Detroit also traded Joey McDonald to Phoenix for their 2013 6th rd pick and 2014 4th rd pick. McDonald was in Grand Rapids sitting behind P. Mrazek and J. Pearce. He had lost his backup job after some bad starts.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Detroit AP- Jimmy Howard stopped all but 1 shot against the Pens in leading the Wings to a 3-1 win. Two quick goals by the Wings late in the 2nd period had the Penguins on their heals. In the 3rd James Neal would captialize on a bad give away by Detroit near their goal. But Johan Franzen's 20th goal of the season would season would seal the victory for the Wings.
For this game i kept my sliders (Tzar's sliders with couple of tweaks) but went back to "Superstar" difficulty. I simmed the 1st period and half the 2nd then took over from there.
I am going to sim games up till trade deadline but will play a few games against some of the better teams during the sim. I will have a Trade Deadline update and then another big (standings, stats etc....) at end of the season.
Tomas Tatar would score in the 1st period, his 9th goal on the season. This would prove to be the game winner.
Pavel Datsyuk is the man who leads this line and team each game. Datsyuk currently sits 3rd in the league with his 52pts. On his left side Filppula has flourished playing on the wing. Moved from his natural center position to the wing Filppula has a little more freedom on offense and its paid off. On the right rookie Tomas Jurco didn’t start in this position, he was in Grand Rapids Dan Cleary occupied this spot but Cleary didn’t mesh well with Datsyuk and Filppula. So the team decided to give Jurco a shot and he has shown that he has the talent to stay with 13 goals in 25 games.
The offense doesn’t drop off much from the top line to this line. At the beginning of the season this line carried the team. The Swedish connection line has they are called has shown great chemistry from the beginning. Franzen is the sniper on the line with his 17 goals, Zetterberg and Nyquist have chipped in nicely with 15g and 10g respectively.
This is where you see a drop offensively sort of, even though rookie Tomas Tatar has 8 goals and Cleary has 7 Darren Helm hasn’t scored yet in 41 games. On the defensive side this line was expected to be better than they have showed so far. Things will have to improve in that area before the playoffs start.
Not much was expected out of the 4th line offensively and with 10 goals combined the line is pretty much on pace of what is needed from them. But like the 3rd line this line has struggled in their own end.
Overall the blue line group needs work defensively.
Lidstrom the captain and leader of the team was a -1 until recently where he improved to 0. The offense is there on the blue line Lidstrom 8goals, rookie Smith 7goals, Kronwall and White 3 goals each. The team may look to add a veteran defensive minded blue liner at the trade deadline if things do not improve. The team currently ranks 21st in goals against and 14th on the PK.
Howard at times has looked great and other times a little off. Dawyne Roloson was signed to take over the backup role as Joey McDonald struggled and was demoted to Grand Rapids.
Outlook: Overall the team is playing pretty well, they are top in the West and 1pt behind for #1 in the league. But defensively they will have to improve, something needs to be fixed. But I fully expect the team to be in the playoffs and hopefully make it to the West finals at the very least.
Detroit AP- Going into the 3rd period the Wings and Predators were tied 1-1 then rookie Tomas Jurco went to work. Jurco recently returned to team after sitting out with a neck injury scored his 1st NHL hattrick (natural hattrick) with 3 goals in he 3rd period. The only 3 goals by either team. Pekke Rinne started the game for Nashville but was pulled after the 1st period. The reason was still unknown. There was no apparent injury to Rinne and the score was only 1-0 after the 1st period.
This was game 41, i simmed the 1st two periods and then played the 3rd period.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Detroit trades Brendan Mikkelson to Buffalo
Brendan Mikkelson and free agent signing by Detroit in the off-season was sent along with the Wings 2013 1st rd pick to Buffalo for the Sabers 2013 1st rd pick. Mikkelson was signed to compete for a spot and provide depth on the blueline. But with the unexpected play by rookie Ryan Murray who earned a spot on the team Mikkelson was sent to Grand Rapids. He found himself behind Murray, Kindl and Ericsson on the depth chart.
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-Gm Ken Holland
The Wings now have Buffalo and Winnipeg's 2013 1st rd picks. If the season ended today (ive simmed up to almost xmas time in game) the 2 picks would be in the top 10.
Mikkelson was currently playing in Grand Rapids he spot will be taken by rookie Gleason Fournier.
Quick team update during simming:
Tomas Jurco returned to the lineup which pushed cleary down to the 3rd line RW and Eaves 4th line RW. Currently Detroit is #1 in the West with 51 pts, Datsyuk is 4th (i think) in league pts.
I will have a complete update maybe later tonight or tomorrow night.
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