Red Wings skate on home ice against Bruins tonight

The Detroit Red Wings are set to skate in front of a capacity crowd (20,027) at Joe Louis Arena for the 200 straight time tonight when the Boston Bruins visit Detroit for a 7:30 p.m. showdown of Original Six foes (FOX Sports Detroit / 97.1 The Ticket).

“Just put my stick down on the ice and it went in”, Vatrano said. “If you look at those stats, we can’t really close the games in the third periods”.

Mrazek made 19 saves in the loss. “If she thinks they look good, then I’ll say I think they look good”.

“One of the things that impressed me when I first got him in Grand Rapids a year ago, he has a real inner confidence to him”, Blashill said. You make maybe one mistake or maybe a guy just takes a nice shot. It gave the B’s a four-game winning streak and pushed them past the Wings into third place in the Atlantic Division.

Each team had two chances on the power play with Sekara’s tally the only goal scored.

Three minutes into the second period, Datsyuk had the goal he so deserved. Despite fully acknowledging his excellence, I have to admit that I was still somewhat wary of putting that much of an emphasis on one single player, and the ripples his impact could make across the team. Steve Yzerman leads a list of players confirmed by Kris Draper, who is organizing Detroit’s alumni team.

TURNING POINT: The Bruins were thoroughly dominated in the second period with the Red Wings outshooting them by an 11-4 margin, and enjoying at least a half-dozen scoring chances.

“In a lot of ways, it was our best game of the year”, Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. “We’ve got to find a way to be more focused and disciplined and playing in our structure”.

Larkin, Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar also scored for Detroit, while Iiro Pakarinen scored twice for the Oilers and Andrej Sekera added another.

“I love playing games more than practice”, Larkin said, with a bit of a smile. The Bruins would be in tough shape this season if Gustavsson didn’t turn out to be this good for them.

Despite the positive outcome, Bruins coach Claude Julien wasn’t too thrilled.

Detroit’s two unanswered in the period had them looking in full control of the remainder of the second as they had everyone working well through 40 minutes of play.

NOTES: Landon Ferraro, claimed by the Bruins on waivers Sunday, played against his former team for the first time.

Overall the jerseys aim for a modern take on several classic Red Wings’ uniform details, from the updated “D” logo to the arched nameplate font.

After missing the first 15 regular-season games of the 2015-2016 National Hockey League season while recovering from ankle surgery, Pavel “The Magic Man” Datsyuk is starting to get back into game-shape and is rekindling his magic. Rask has allowed eight goals in his last three games.