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Red Wings-Stars Game 2 quick take: Stars sweep Wings, but third period comeback leaves questions (good and bad!)

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The Detroit Red Wings attempted to earn a split against the Dallas Stars on Thursday evening.

Detroit had made a significant amount of progress over the course of a disappointing 2-1 OT loss on Tuesday, and getting back at ‘er against the slightly undermanned Stars (who are without Jamie Benn, Roope Hintz, Tyler Seguin and others) offered a measure of redemption, if not revenge, as Dylan Larkin battled his way through some sort of minor injury, Darren Helm made his return to the lineup, and the Stars started a first-timer in Jake Oettinger opposite Jonathan Bernier.

You guys and gals know I’m a person who believes that “learning” is going to matter more than wins or losses this season, and I’m baffled by the 7-3 result tonight. The Red Wings fell down 2-0, 3-1 and 4-2, but they rallied to make it 5-3, and surrendered two very late, very soft goals. They lost Jonathan Bernier in the middle of it all to an upper body injury as well…

But the Wings’ competence was exciting–if only for a few minutes. The Wings’ struggles, going 1-for-7 on the power play, for example, were maddening. The Red Wings’ rally was something to behold, until they imploded, at least…

And they go home 0-and-2 against Dallas and 2-5-and-1 on the season, with Detroit facing Florida on Saturday and Sunday.

What to make of this? Maybe we’ll have to wait until Saturday and Sunday to find out.

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No changes are no changes to the NHL’s COVID list

The news outlets are starting to get wind of the concept that fans want to know who is on the NHL’s COVID reserve list. As a result, TSN posted Thursday’s press release, and all the Wings who’ve previously been on the list are still there:

Detroit – Adam Erne; Robby Fabbri; Sam Gagner; Jon Merrill; Filip Zadina

Updating a bad day for Moritz Seider

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As IceHockeyGifs reported, Moritz Seider took a tumble in today’s game vs. Brynas (wherein Seider posted 2 goals and an assist), and things did not look good:

Both Aftonbladet’s Hans Abrahamsson and Kvallsposten’s Johan Dock Wall reported that Seider had to go to the hospital–on his own two feet–to get his shoulder examined, and Rogle’s Twitter feed Tweeted that Seider will be reexamined on Friday:

Prospect Round-up: Seider 2+1, Berggren 2A in Sweden

Of prospect-related note:

In the SHL, Moritz Seider put on a show, posting 2 goals and 1 assist for 3 points, finishing at +2 with 4 shots in 21:51 as Rogle BK beat Brynas 5-4 in a shootout:

Update: But not all was well:

Jonatan Berggren put on a show of his own, registering 2 assists in 12:40 played as Skelleftea AIK won 6-0 over Linkoping:

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HSJ’s game-day notebook: bumpy ride ahead for the Wings’ COVID reserve list

As the Free Press’s Helene St. James notes in her game-day notebook, the Red Wings’ five players on COVID reserve–Robby Fabbri, Sam Gagner, Adam Erne, Jon Merrill and Fillip Zadina–have a hard road ahead of them:

Coach Jeff Blashill planned to spend part of Thursday afternoon sitting down with athletic trainer Piet VanZant to map out when players potentially will be available, and sketched something of a timeline.

“It’s a minimum of 14 days,” Blashill said. “They can’t exercise or exert themselves until those 14 days are up. That’s at a minimum. How many days after that is really hard to tell. But being off for 14 days, that’s a long time.

“Part of the process is getting them back into shape so they don’t injure themselves. That would be the No. 1 priority, so they don’t have soft-tissue issues. It will be very difficult to get them into as many game situations as you’d like because of the fact it’s just really, really hard to practice.”

After Sunday, the Wings have two days before their next game. At best, Fabbri and Erne may be able to practice by then. But the 14-day period of rest won’t be over for Zadina, Gagner and Merrill before the Wings depart for Tampa, and players have to quarantine 48 hours if they travel commercially.

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HSJ, Khan post Blashill, DeKeyser’s quotes regarding Jimmy Howard’s retirement

The Free Press’s Helene St. James posted heartfelt comments made by Jeff Blashill and Danny DeKeyser regarding one Jimmy Howard, who retired today…

“When I was an assistant here he was an All-Star, and then he was an All-Star again later in his career,” coach Jeff Blashill said. “It shows the competitiveness, and also the work ethic that showed in being great at his craft. Goaltending is one of those positions that you can continuously work on and make better, and he continually did that.

“When you look at his career in totality, it was a really, really wonderful career. He was a great competitor and a really great Red Wing.”

Howard ranks fourth in his draft class with 246 victories in 543 games, trailing Marc-Andre Fleury (467 in 848), Jaroslav Halak (272 in 521) and Corey Crawford (260 in 488).

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“He was a great goalie for us for a long time,” veteran defenseman Danny DeKeyser said. “He gave us a chance to win more nights than not. He loved playing hockey, loved competing. One thing that I think made him a good goalie was his ability to block out things that happened in the past – if he had a bad game, he could rinse it and go out the next night and have a good game.

“Another quality of his was not things too seriously all the time and being able to go out there and have fun, joke about things, even if they weren’t going the right way. He liked to have fun.”

Continued;

MLive’s Ansar Khan followed suit…

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