Month: October 2021

Red Wings-Canucks quick take: Greiss stops 40 as Wings win a surprisingly mean game

The Detroit Red Wings faced off against the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night, with the Red Wings hoping to earn their first home win opposite a Canucks team playing their 3rd game in 4 nights.

The Red Wings played a surprisingly energetic Canucks team, which out-shot Detroit 41-21, out-attempted Detroit 71-39, and played mean, nasty hockey, but Detroit withstood Vancouver’s attack, with Thomas Greiss pitching 40 saves en route to a 3-1 victory.

Robby Fabbri, Filip Zadina and Sam Gagner (empty net) scored the goals, Marc Staal, Gustav Lindstrom, Filip Hronek, Moritz Seider and Tyler Bertuzzi had the assists, and, in a wild affair, Detroit rope-a-doped their way to their first win.

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Via A2Y: This is Hockey Night in Canada, we’d like to debate the Dylan Larkin suspension

Via Paul Kukla of Kukla’s Korner and Abel to Yzerman, here’s Ron MacLean, Kevin Bieksa, Kelly Hrudey and Jennifer Botterill discussing the Dylan Larkin suspension:

Let’s conveniently ignore the fact that Dylan Larkin was the one who was injured…

A bit of fantasy hockey talk about Moritz Seider

The Hockey News’s Jason Chen discusses several fantasy hockey players of importance today, including one Moritz Seider:

Moritz Seider, D, Red Wings: There’s a good chance Seider leads all rookies in ice time this season. He played 20:21 in his NHL debut, including a team-leading 5:26 on the power play, and finished with two assists and three hits. His usage makes him potentially a really good defenseman in roto leagues, which can be hard to find because they have to be good in other non-traditional categories, and it’s easy to jump on him now since he’s only rostered in 19 percent of Yahoo leagues. Seider’s already really good and he’s not backing down from anyone either; he showed that in the opener when he boldly took the puck away from Victor Hedman after a whistle and nearly sent Mikhail Sergachev tumbling with a shove. The Lightning-Red Wing rivalry is very underrated.

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Kulfan’s notebook: back to scouting unfamiliar opponents

The Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan asked Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill about the tricky business that is scouting opponents that your team hasn’t played in almost two years given last year’s emphasis on divisional play:

“Generally you try to go back to games against them a year ago, but we don’t have those,” coach Jeff Blashill said after Saturday’s morning skate. “So now it’s two years ago, and they don’t become nearly as relevant for a couple of reasons. One, the way they forecheck now is different from two years ago.

“The players are so different, too. It’s a different animal, and one we understand. It’s been a full season since we played any of these teams, and we’re facing a little bit different preparation, one that’s not harder or easier, just different.”

One positive is, both teams are, obviously, on equal footing.

“We’re both in the same boat,” Blashill said. “Certainly we have a lot of new faces since when they faced us. We’ve changed some things, and they changed some things.”

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Prospect round-up: Edvinsson scores, LDN posts assist in J20

Of prospect-related note in Europe today:

In the Finnish Liiga, Otto Kivenmaki finished at -1 in 10:18 played as his Lahti Pelicans lost 3-2 to Tappara;

In the SHL, William Wallinder finished at -1 with 3 shots on goal in 15:22 played as Rogle BK won 5-2 over Farjestads BK. Albert Johansson finished even with 1 shot in 16:02 played for Farjestad;

In Frolunda HC’s 4-1 win over Linkoping:

Simon Edvinsson scored a goal on 2 shots, finishing +2 in 18:32 played:

Elmer Soderblom finished even with 2 shots in 13:26 played;

Theodor Niederbach finished even with a penalty taken in 9:45 played;

And in the Swedish J20 league, Liam Dower Nilsson had an assist in Frolunda HC’s J20 team’s 6-4 loss to HV71. Dower Nilsson finished even with 1 shot and went 4-for-11 on faceoffs.

Red Wings-Canucks game-day articles: Coach Blashill’s peeved about the Larkin suspension, too

The Detroit Red Wings will face the Vancouver Canucks this evening (7 PM EDT start on BSD/Sportsnet West/97.1 FM) without Dylan Larkin in the lineup, and Thomas Greiss will start in goal for Detroit. After coach Blashill spoke with the media today, the Wings’ press corps filed articles regarding his remarks:

  1. MLive’s Ansar Khan posted an article in which coach Blashill discusses Dylan Larkin’s suspension:

Joseph was not penalized for the check or disciplined by the NHL for an act Blashill believes is more dangerous than the one that got Larkin suspended.

“Philosophically, I think the most dangerous plays in that game by far are the high hits from behind, any kind of push or cross-check high in the numbers where the player goes head-first into the boards,” Blashill said. “If I was a player, those are the plays I’d want to be protected from the most. When I talked to my son last night, when he was asking me questions like why is the punch with a glove on more dangerous than the other one, I had to explain to him that it’s not for me personally.

“Ultimately, Dylan will serve his suspension, we’ll take our medicine and move forward. I think Dylan knows you want to keep your emotions in control at that point, but as I watched it yesterday, I totally understand why he didn’t. None of us are perfect. I totally get it, given what he’s been through and the instances that have arisen over the course of the last 8-10 months.”

Coach Blashill also addressed Larkin’s replacement, one Robby Fabbri, and Blashill spoke about Carter Rowney’s debut as well:

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Red Wings-Canucks game-day video: coach Blashill

The Red Wings’ morning skate ahead of tonight’s game vs. Vancouver (7 PM on BSD/Sportsnet West/97.1 FM) was briefly-covered by the media, as were coach Jeff Blashill’s post-skate remarks.

We know that the Red Wings will start Thomas Greiss opposite Jaroslav Halak (most likely), we know that Robby Fabbri and Carter Rowney will earn promotions, and we know that the Canucks won’t hold a morning skate after last night’s 5-4 shootout win over Philadelphia as Vancouver’s playing a back-to-back this evening, and is playing their 3rd game in 4 nights tonight.

Anyway, here’s coach Jeff Blashill speaking with the media today: