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West-leading Stars snuff Red Wings’ win streak, 4-1
Posted On Nov 09 2015
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Patrick Sharp and Jason Demers also scored and Colton Sceviour had two assists for the Stars.
It’s simple, really, the strategy that coach Jeff Blashill believes will set the Detroit Red Wings on the course toward more goals per game. “So if you ask me on a specific area where we need to score more, we need to make goalies make saves and we need more net presence”.
“We’re only a couple of wins out of sixth, seventh place”, said Tyler Seguin, who started the day with an NHL-high 21 points and had an empty-net goal at Detroit.
Jimmy Howard stopped 20 shots for the Red Wings before getting knocked out of the game midway through the third period. Blashill said Howard was fine, and wanted to return to the game. Kari Lehtonen finished with 30 saves.
“There were opportunities to hit the net”, Blashil said. “Shots were 15-8, I thought they should have been 15-12”.
Sharp scored first, taking advantage of a diagonal pass to the left circle from John Klingberg 7:22 into the game. “Once they scored, it wasn’t good enough”.
The Stars were outshooting and outskating Detroit and were rewarded when Nichushkin skated with the puck behind the net, gave it up, got to a rebound and scored on his second shot of the dominating even-strength sequence to put them ahead 2-0.
“That was a big goal for us”, Henrik Zetterberg said. “It seems like whoever got the puck in, created a lot of good chances”.
Each side managed just three shots on net in the second period. Ales Hemsky took a headshot to Jonathan Ericsson, left his feet, and did not call a penalty. There would have been no penalty on the play had Ericsson not retaliated.
“That was kind of weird”, Zetterberg said.
“I just think we’ve got to hit the net way more”. With the team apparently finding themselves, the addition of blue liner Mike Green and two way forward Pavel Datsyuk could provide the boost Detroit needs. “He goes in pretty hard and he’s a big guy, so obviously there’s a few intent there”. Obviously, there is a few intent there.
