Red Wings’ Darren Helm leaves game with injury

Both teams watched intently from the benches during the television timeout, and Joe Louis Arena fans roared like they hadn’t most of the afternoon. He also represented the United States at the 2010 IIHF World Junior Championship in Saskatchewan, where he won a gold medal and had two assists in seven games. The play started behind the Red Wings’ net with Rene Bourque collecting the puck and sending it back out front to Fedor Tyutin.

“It was a lot of fun watching the highlights of all those old Red Wings-Avalanche games on the scoreboard”, MacKinnon said.

“(Confidence) is what we needed”, Tomas Tatar said. Well, apparently not. Both Blake Comeau and Fedor Tyutin were caught fast asleep and were soon rendered mere spectators to an easy breakaway goal (Athan-a-see-you-later!). “I think it’s one of the best rivalries in the game”. “Once they got their second goal, everything kind of snowballed”.

Tatar has the team lead with 20 goals but he’d prefer the Red Wings had a few more victories and were closer to a playoff spot.

Tatar, who scored just four goals in his first 31 games of season, has tallied five in the past five games. Still last place, sure, but they’re 1-0 against the Red Wings, which is about as much as you can ask for in 2017.

“It doesn’t matter who we’re playing”, Howard said, “we’ve got to come out and we’ve got to be ready to play”.

Detroit scored on a first-period power play, with Coyotes defenseman Connor Murphy off for hooking.

Nyquist gave the Red Wings a 5-1 lead at 16:18, scoring after a pass from Zetterberg for his 10th goal. Helm appeared to injure his left knee when checked hard by Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson during the second period. Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said Helm is day to day with a lower body injury and it is unknown if he will play Monday against the Buffalo Sabres. The Avs future as of now looks brighter than the Red Wings. Larkin shoveled a backhand pass to Nyquist, who moved the puck across the ice to Tatar.

Vrbata tied it 1-1 at the 1:53 mark when his wrist shot beat Mrazek for his 17th of the season. Soderberg extended the lead 1:55 later with his sixth goal of the season.

“I’ve been talking about it the whole season”, Tatar said. “It’s just funneling pucks to the net”. The Red Wings have been led by Andreas Athanasiou, Dylan Larkin and, when he actually plays, Anthony Mantha. “We want our veteran guys to push right until the end”.

“It was awesome to be a part of the last game with Colorado at the Joe”. “Then got to play against Wayne Gretzky, who I grew up watching in Edmonton for the Oilers, so it was a big thrill for me to play against the L.A. Kings, a thrill for me to be on the ice with Wayne Gretzky at such a young age”.

That was the night the Wings beat the Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche 6-5 in overtime and Detroit forward Darren McCarty put a beating on Colorado counterpart Claude Lemieux during a first-period line brawl, exacting revenge for the facial injuries suffered by Detroit’s Kris Draper when he was hit into the boards in the deciding game of the 1996 Western Conference final.