Post-Game Talk: Wings streak ends at 6 - we sorely miss our offensive MVP

[NervousPerson]

Truly awful game. Boston always seems to have the Wings' number. Julien and his boring trap game can go jump in the Blind River.

 

[Tatar Shots]

How do we come from looking like a top 5 team in the league to an AHL team? Howard can't score goals guys. Mailed this one in big time. Well tomorrow they better come with everything and the kitchen sink.

We never looked like a top 5 team? We got some lucky wins, but nothing we were doing was close to sustainable. We are the 2nd worst possession team in the league and as such we will have pathetic loses like this. A third of our games have been just terrible (Panthers, NYR, Bruins). The win streak was great but the team had plenty of problems during it and never looked like a top 5 team during it.

 

[icKx]

Howard
Rask
Nyquist

Man do we miss Vanek. He's a Bruin-killer too.

 

[Bench]

The good news is I don't think the guys will be too tired after that effort to enjoy all the Halloween partying tonight.

 

[SpookyTsuki]

I expected a loss. Not sure if we lose vs Florida

After that I wanna see a 2-3 win streak

 

[Ezekial]

Sad sad game. Second game this year I'm voting Howard for all three stars. Dude's been on it.
I can't get over how pathetic of a hockey game that was.

Blash stahp with the 21-40-15 line

 

[ap3x]

Didn't surprise me at all. Really disappointing though...

 

[Martinez]

That was a hard game to watch

 

[KJoe88]

We never looked like a top 5 team? We got some lucky wins, but nothing we were doing was close to sustainable. We are the 2nd worst possession team in the league and as such we will have pathetic loses like this. A third of our games have been just terrible (Panthers, NYR, Bruins). The win streak was great but the team had plenty of problems during it and never looked like a top 5 team during it.

Couldn't disagree more.

Part of being good, is being lucky as well. We also did tons of things right and efficiently during the win streak despite have poorer posession numbers.

I expect a win against the Panthers.

 

[Ulysses31]

Puck was bouncing like nuts it seemed, if there was a problem with the ice hopefully its fixed by tomorrow

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

So sick of Z already. A couple nice assists earlier in the year don't make him a productive player for the Wings. Can't stand seeing him out there all the time.

How many years left including this one? 5??

 

[aar000n]

I want us to put out best team out.

we still have stone hands Riley Sheaham, Luke Glendening,Darren Helm, Justin Abdelkader and Drew Miller. Now I get we need a checking line but that's almost 2 checking lines.

so Keep Darren Helm, Justin Abdelkader and Drew Miller, and put some talent back in the line up.

 

[Goalie guy]

I'm not giving any one on either team a star! I have seen better played peewee games. Both teams looked like a bantam house team out there. just going through the motions for pizza after the game.

 

[taylorjonl]

I voted Howard and that is it, nothing else of interest in this game.

 

[Ezekial]

I'm not giving any one on either team a star! I have seen better played peewee games. Both teams looked like a bantam house team out there. just going through the motions for pizza after the game.

Hey man, it was a pathetic game, but Jimmy Howard deserves your vote. He's faced 98 shots this year and has only let in a pristine deflection and a weak ass shot that poked through.

 

[ricky0034]

So sick of Z already. A couple nice assists earlier in the year don't make him a productive player for the Wings. Can't stand seeing him out there all the time.

maybe we should try not playing him 20 minutes a night

the Wings keep saying Athanasiou does better with less ice-time or whatever well that's probably even more true with Zetterberg at this stage of his career

 

[CanadaIsIrrelevant]

All I can say is: Yeaaah DST settings changed.
Hockey games 1 hour earlier for me until 6th of November

Then back to normal again

 

[TeemuS]

All I can say is: Yeaaah DST settings changed.
Hockey games 1 hour earlier for me until 6th of November

Then back to normal again

same

 

[14ari13]

This where I disagree with you.
Yes, Howard stopped 30+ shots, but the one that passes was a super soft one.
I do not blame him for the loss. I saw it coming. Their are extremely desperate team we were on the winning streak.
This one goes on blashill. He should have played Mrazek this game. Howard lost playoff series to bruins, should not be in net.
It is to be seen how the teams respond. The cats lost badly to sabres. Are they going to play their hearts out or they are going to be an easy prey.

 

[ap3x]

Hard do believe that the Cats are losing their 4th in a row. Expecting another tough loss, hoping to grab a point at least.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

This where I disagree with you.
Yes, Howard stopped 30+ shots, but the one that passes was a super soft one.
I do not blame him for the loss. I saw it coming. Their are extremely desperate team we were on the winning streak.
This one goes on blashill. He should have played Mrazek this game. Howard lost playoff series to bruins, should not be in net.
It is to be seen how the teams respond. The cats lost badly to sabres. Are they going to play their hearts out or they are going to be an easy prey.

Even if he played Mrazek and he posted a shutout.... the Wings still need to score goals to win. Howard stopped 35 shots and only gave up the one. I don't care... a 1-0 loss where your goalie faces 36 shots isn't on your goalie unless he literally just turns and fires it into his own net.

This game goes on the Wings offense. You can't win if you don't score. It's not on Blash because he did the same stuff he did the last six games that we won. It's not on Howard because he kept it a one shot game the entire night.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

This where I disagree with you.
Yes, Howard stopped 30+ shots, but the one that passes was a super soft one.
I do not blame him for the loss. I saw it coming. Their are extremely desperate team we were on the winning streak.
This one goes on blashill. He should have played Mrazek this game. Howard lost playoff series to bruins, should not be in net.
It is to be seen how the teams respond. The cats lost badly to sabres. Are they going to play their hearts out or they are going to be an easy prey.

They put it up on the broadcast during the game and I guess you didn't see it. Mrazek wasn't playing last night because of how terrible he has been against Boston. Mrazek's lone win against Boston came in the offensive slug-fest game we won last year 6-5 or something like that where he was terrible on his birthday. He has an .870 save percentage against Boston. He plays them probably the worst of any team in the league.

 

[BinCookin]

This game scored almost as nicely as it looked:

DET vs BOS

DDK (+1-2)
(-) Turnover in front of net
(-) poor pass into the skates
(+) good job muscling Bergeron into boards
Green (+1-3)
(-) icing
(+) nice shot
(-) turnover for breakaway
(-) pass intercepted
Ericsson (+2-2)
(-) give-away in front of the net (dangerous)
(+) nice quick pass
(-) fanned on clearance
(+) good check to stop the split
Smith (+1-4)
(-) icing
(-) out of position lead to angled 2on1
(-) poor pass
(+) good rush and pass into the slot
(-) icing
Marchenko (+1-1)
(+) great pass to Tatar in the middle (slap pass on the tape)
(-) poor pass
Sproul (-1)
(-) poor spin pass

Best game was E with an "even" performance.

Every other D man was negative.

 

[obey86]

Zetterberg has been a bit better than last season so far but he still bogs down the offense way too much with how slow he is compared to the rest of the team. Him playing big minutes and constantly running the offense though him on the PP is (again) hurting the team more than it helps.

Also, what happened to his shot? It's terribly weak and ineffective, it looks like me shooting out there.

 

[14ari13]

Even if he played Mrazek and he posted a shutout.... the Wings still need to score goals to win. Howard stopped 35 shots and only gave up the one. I don't care... a 1-0 loss where your goalie faces 36 shots isn't on your goalie unless he literally just turns and fires it into his own net.

This game goes on the Wings offense. You can't win if you don't score. It's not on Blash because he did the same stuff he did the last six games that we won. It's not on Howard because he kept it a one shot game the entire night.

As I said, this where I disagree with most of the posters. I understand your logic, but a soft goal is a soft goal and a softish goal is a softish one no matter. Then there is a half softish and so on.
All in all Howard has done his job, allowed 2 goals in 3 games is dream goaltending. Nonetheless, for his own sake he has to get rid of those soft ones, cause sooner or later they will bite him.

They put it up on the broadcast during the game and I guess you didn't see it. Mrazek wasn't playing last night because of how terrible he has been against Boston. Mrazek's lone win against Boston came in the offensive slug-fest game we won last year 6-5 or something like that where he was terrible on his birthday. He has an .870 save percentage against Boston. He plays them probably the worst of any team in the league.

Didn't know that. Thanks.
The stream was bad and I gave up the 3rd period.