Sports in Perspective
For Red Wings fans, watching the final minutes of game five was painful. While Detroit fought tooth and nail to tie the game, the clock eventually expired with the score 2-1 in favor of the Nashville Predators. The loss was made even more agonizing when the game concluded and the camera zoomed in on captain [...]
Pekka Rinne is really that good. The Nashville goaltender who established himself as one of the elite NHL goaltenders by stopping 41 of 43 Red Wing shots last game followed that performance with an even better one. Rinne was nothing short of mind-boggling on Tuesday night, making 40 saves on 41 shots, eventually lifting his [...]
After three games of controversy, hard hits, and fighting, the Detroit Red Wings find themselves trailing the Nashville Predators two games to one. Although Detroit seems to be the better team, Nashville has shown amazing resilience, great goaltending, and physical play en route to the series lead through three. The story of the series for [...]
Yes, FIVE. Sure, many people love the Nashville Predators, and some even have them going to the Stanley Cup Finals, but the Red Wings are being underestimated once again. With a finally healthy team accompanied with a plethora of playoff experience, the Red Wings will win this series quicker than most would think. Nashville has [...]
It wasn’t long ago that the Detroit Red Wings had lost six straight games and looked like a confused, beaten team. The Wings have looked better since then, but have still showed signs of shakiness that was not present during the team’s 23-game home winning streak. I’m here to tell you to throw all that [...]
Just when you thought the Detroit Red Wings might be in big trouble, the team that earlier this season won 23 straight at home came back to life. After losing six straight, the Wings fell behind 4-1 to lowly Carolina, making things look grim for Detroit’s skaters. Then, riding the coattails of stars Henrik Zetterberg [...]
Home cooking will be a more than welcome sign for the Detroit Red Wings. After a four game road trip in which the Wings failed to record a win and tallied just one point, they return to Joe Louis Arena to play seven of their last ten games. While the Red Wings were struggling to [...]
When a team loses a star player such as the Detroit Red Wings’ Pavel Datsyuk, winning games in a very competitive Western Conference gets that much tougher. When that injury is compounded by a slew of others, winning becomes nearly impossible. Winning without the services of many key players is exactly the task that the [...]
The Detroit Red Wings are clearly missing Pavel Datsyuk. Since their star went down with a knee injury that required arthroscopic surgery, the Red Wings have dropped three in a row, including two at home. With Datsyuk, the Wings won 23 straight at home. Without him, they seem to be a team that has lost [...]
For Red Wings fans, the news received yesterday was accompanied by groans. Yesterday, Detroit GM Ken Holland announced that the Red Wings star center iceman Pavel Datsyuk had undergone arthroscopic knee surgery to repair a stress fracture. Holland added that the injury would sideline Datsyuk for 2-3 weeks. Before panic starts in Hockeytown, this is [...]