Here’s the Red Wings’ Game Day Preview video ahead of tonight’s game against Philly…
Here’s the Grand Rapids Griffins’ Game Day Preview video ahead of tonight’s game vs. Milwaukee:
Continue reading Griffins news: a Game Day Preview video and weekly press release
Of Red Wings-related note this afternoon:
1. The pre-game stories today focus on Petr Mrazek, as discussed by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Sam Donnellon…
“Red Wings fans were always awesome,” he said after Tuesday’s morning skate at the Wings’ brand-new home. “They always cheer for us. If they cheer for me I’m really happy. But I don’t think they’re going to cheer for me tonight.”
Mrazek arrived early Tuesday and chatted with several old teammates. Asked by a Detroit reporter who might have the advantage, the goaltender who practiced daily against the shooters or the shooters who have practiced scoring on the goalie, Mrazek carefully deferred, saying the ebbs and flows of the game itself are likely to dictate that.
“Every game is different,” he said. “I wouldn’t know who is going to have [an] advantage.
Mrazek said he talked to Red Wings left wing Andreas Athanasiou this morning, and concluded: “I don’t know what he’s going to do. Is he going to do the same move he always does or is he going to [do something different]?”
Mrazek was also asked if, after platooning for much of the year, being traded into a playoff race and into a starter’s role had renewed his excitement.
“It’s always fun to be in a group with a chance to make the playoffs,” he said. “It was really good to get a fresh starts, especially with my contract almost up. I’m really excited for the opportunity.”
2. The Free Press’s Helene St. James…
Continue reading Red Wings-Flyers game-day articles: All about Petr
The Red Wings and Flyers held their respective morning skates ahead of tonight’s game between the teams (7:30 PM EDT on NBCSN/NBCS Philly/97.1 FM), and Petr Mrazek took center stage both during and after the Flyers’ skate:
Leading #Flyers in stretch is Petr Mrazek. His former team has lost 10 straight. He aims to make it 11 and officially knock them out of playoff contention. pic.twitter.com/QjxSsxFJEF
— Dave Isaac (@davegisaac) March 20, 2018
So:
Continue reading Red Wings-Flyers post-morning skate stuff: On Mrazek and bad ice
From the Toledo Walleye:
Bonis nets Player of the Week honors
(Toledo, OH) – Forward Kyle Bonis is the Sher-Wood Athletics Group ECHL Player of the Week for March 12-18. It is the second time in his career that he has received the weekly honor.
Bonis was dominating over the past week, scoring four goals to go along with three assists and was a plus five in four road games for the Walleye. He started the week with a goal and an assist in a 3-2 win at Quad City on Wednesday and followed that up with another goal in Friday’s 3-2 win at the Mallards. Saturday night in Indy, the 29 year old scored the game-tying goal late in the third period and followed that up with the overtime game-winning strike 16 seconds in for a 4-3 win. He finished the week with an assist in a 4-1 win. Bonis is currently second on the Walleye in scoring with 48 points, while leading the team with 24 goals.
The Athletic’s Craig Custance penned a subscriber-only article regarding Team USA’s World Championship team, which is slowly being built at the NHL’s GM’s meetings, and here’s the Red Wings-related part of Custance’s article:
[Last year’s] team had a strong Red Wings connection with head coach Jeff Blashill the U.S. coach. Blashill is again a top candidate to be Team USA’s coach if he’s interested, with Buffalo’s Phil Housley and New York’s Doug Weight also in the mix.
If the Americans on the Red Wings show the same commitment — and it was Dylan Larkin doing a lot of the recruiting last spring — this roster quickly becomes a medal contender. Jimmy Howard, Larkin and Danny DeKeyser all were on the 2017 roster.
Custance continues at length (paywall)
The Detroit Red Wings will attempt to snap their 10-game winless streak when they host the Philadelphia Flyers this evening (7:30 PM EDT on NBCSN/NBCS Philly/97.1 FM).
Ahead of today’s morning skate, the Wings and Flyers’ press posted articles setting up tonight’s game, starting with MLive’s Ansar Khan:
The Toledo Blade’s Mark Monroe posted his weekly “Walleye Weigh-In” article, and this morning, Monroe notes that the Walleye have an excellent chance of earning the ECHL’s regular-season title, the Brabham Cup:
Apparently, this group of Walleye are very serious about grabbin’ the Brabham.
The team went unscathed through another taxing road trip, earning eight out of eight points.
With the four-game win streak, Toledo kept the pressure on several teams chasing them for the lead in the ECHL overall standings.
The trophy for finishing with the most points in the league is called the Brabham (pronounced Brab-UM) Cup. Toledo has become very familiar with the regular-season championship, taking the Brabham last season and in 2015.
With a 4-1 win at Cincinnati on Sunday, Toledo swept a four-game road trip. The successful stretch also came during a travel-filled journey of four games in five days. The final two victories also came over desperate teams (Indy and Cincinnati) that are still looking to lock up a spot in the Kelly Cup playoffs.
The highlight win came on Saturday when the team rallied from a 3-0 deficit at Indy midway through the first period to swipe two points away from the Fuel with a 4-3 OT win courtesy of two clutch goals from Kyle Bonis.
The Walleye now have a nine-point lead over Fort Wayne in the Central Division. The archrival Komets, who were idle on Sunday, do have three games in hand on Toledo.
Monroe continues at extended length…
This looks like a film worth heading downtown to watch. NHL.com just posted this via Twitter in the middle of a Monday afternoon, but it’s very cool:
Relive the magic of “The Joe: The Detroit Red Wings and Joe Louis Arena” at the @Freep_Film_Fest April 14-15.
To buy tickets,? here: https://t.co/ueRO71iot8 pic.twitter.com/sCYDX9oyvE
— NHL (@NHL) March 19, 2018
The Detroit Red Wings will attempt to snap a 10-game losing streak (0-9-and-1) against a team in a particularly vigorous battle for playoff positioning in the 37-25-and-11 Philadelphia Flyers this evening (7:30 PM EDT on NBCSN with Ken Daniels and Brian Boucher/97.1 FM).
The Flyers sit in third place in the Metropolitan Division, but they’ve gone 3-6-and-1 this month, turning things around recently via a 2-game winning streak, so they really need tonight’s win to keep the Columbus Blue Jackets from bumping the Flyers into a Wild Card spot.
Philly most recently won a pair of games, winning a 4-2 decision against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday and a 6-3 win over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Put bluntly, however:
