Post-Game Talk: we like our team

[Heaton]

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[H3ckt1k]

man crush on larkin

 

[KJoe88]

Boom

Z
Larkin
Green

 

[DeYarmond Edison]

That was a super entertaining game.

Great win, and **** you, Yzerman.

 

[hyduK]

Great game. Special teams were great and solid at even strength for the most part. Bit of a relief to get that first W vs. an NHL team.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Howard, Z and Green

HM: Larkin and .... Kindl what the...

 

[Acoustic]

Howard plays great when he's under pressure from another goalie.

 

[chances14]

wings 3-0. unbeaten in regulation since the playoffs

#fireblashill

 

[Heaton]

Great game by Howard, and Larkin continues to be extremely impressive. Z has been one of the best players in every game so far.

 

[The Geelee]

Excellent team game after the first 10 min. of the 1st. Played real well and deserved the win.

Z
Green
Howard
HM to Larkin. Kids got insane wheels

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Howard plays great when he's under pressure from another goalie.

Howard usually plays very well until he gets hurt... Also I think the weight loss has helped his movement a lot so far this season. Also seems Blashill a former goalie has told Jimmy don't play the puck unless it is obvious as he is wandering a lot less meaning less problems.

 

[Pavels Dog]

I gotta laugh at that guy who claimed Glendening isn't good at playing the shutdown role.

Our 4th line just completely took the triplets out of the game. Major reason we won.

I thought both the 2nd and 3rd lines were solid, if unspectacular. Waiting for Tatar to really start showing his stuff.

Top line is MONEY. Damn. So good.

Defense is a bit of a mess. Smith deserves to sit after this game. Ericsson and Kindl both had their bad moments too.

Overall a very good game. After the first 10 minutes we were clearly the better team. Good solid game from Howard too.

 

[joe89]

2nd and 3rd were really good periods. Overall a tight game.

Nyquist played the least of any Wing, btw.

 

[DeYarmond Edison]

This is without Datsyuk. Man, I am so ****ing stoked.

 

[chances14]

 

[Birko19]

I gotta laugh at that guy who claimed Glendening isn't good at playing the shutdown role.

Glendening is an amazing 4th line shutdown guy, reminds me of the olden days of Draper/Maltby.

 

[HockeyinHD]

There are 79 games to go.

The team doesn't have Dekeyser and Datsyuk yet.

More stuff can (and almost certainly will) happen. Bad stuff too.

That said, I think we can pretty safely start laughing behind our hands at all the people who were losing their minds at the organization and yelling 'fire Holland' now, right?

Detroit's got a little something going on here.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

They have to beat Carolina first...

 

[Flowah]

Same problem as last year, but this team never starts on time. You can always count on the first 10 minutes or first period to just be a cluster.

Kindl had a pretty decent game. Smith had his worst in a while. Jurco played well. Tatar needs to find something and get it going. The entire top line continues to be our most reliable. Howard played as well as any goalie in the league would have that game. Ferraro looked like he never wanted to be pulled from the lineup.

I don't think anyone but Smith really had a bad game. Some people were meh but most were pretty good after the first 10 minutes.

 

[Yemack]

wasn't expecting this tight game this early in the season but should serve our team will.

Wings can definintely take some notes from Lightning. Lightning does very good job of driving the zone even when their guy is tied up. They just make small pass without even seeing because they already know their guys are gonna be there. bit like a football with series of small passes. terrific executions all around.

Also maybe our D can start skating up when every option is closed but has alot of room in front of him. Too often lightning 2 forecheckers close down one side of ice and has the other side of the zone wide open but Wings are forced to pass to congested area because there is no one to recieve the pass the other side. If D starts skating it solves the problem. no brendan smith stickhandling in that situation though.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

There are 79 games to go.

The team doesn't have Dekeyser and Datsyuk yet.

More stuff can (and almost certainly will) happen. Bad stuff too.

That said, I think we can pretty safely start laughing behind our hands at all the people who were losing their minds at the organization and yelling 'fire Holland' now, right?

Detroit's got a little something going on here.

You weren't laughing before...

The demise of the Red Wings is predicted seemingly every year since 2002 when people still thought the all-star team was too old.

 

[HockeyinHD]

Glendening is an amazing 4th line shutdown guy, reminds me of the olden days of Draper/Maltby.

Well, okay. Slow down a little there. Maltby yeah, but that faceoff dot has to improve by a ton to even get in the general vicinity of Draper.

 

[TheMule93]

There are 79 games to go.

The team doesn't have Dekeyser and Datsyuk yet.

More stuff can (and almost certainly will) happen. Bad stuff too.

That said, I think we can pretty safely start laughing behind our hands at all the people who were losing their minds at the organization and yelling 'fire Holland' now, right?

Detroit's got a little something going on here.

I have seen nobody saying fire Holland

 

[Acoustic]

Howard usually plays very well until he gets hurt... Also I think the weight loss has helped his movement a lot so far this season. Also seems Blashill a former goalie has told Jimmy don't play the puck unless it is obvious as he is wandering a lot less meaning less problems.

He does play well thought when his job isn't 100%.

But yes, it seems as though having Blashhill has helped in that regard as well.

Stay in the net Jimmy!

 

[HockeyinHD]

General observation: Whenever Pulkkinen gets near the puck I can almost hear the sound of a button on a gamepad being pressed 10 times a second. clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick.