What a crazy and bizarre game. The Wings were up 4-0 by the end of the first period with goals by Steve Yzerman, Robert Lang, Mikael Samuelsson, and a beauty by Henrik Zetterberg. Yzerman’s goal notched him his 200th career power play goal. After going pointless for seven games, hopefully Samuelsson will bounce back offensively after scoring his 17th goal of the season. Wild goaltender Manny Fernandez was taken out after the first period.
I watched the first part of the second period, upon which the Wild scored to make it 4-1. I then had to watch 24 with my college friends so I missed the rest of the second and most of the third period. I came back with five minutes left in the game to see the score at 5-4 and my heart dropped. I’m always skeptical when the Wings are up by so much because especially with the new rules, it’s pretty easy to even that all up. Fortunately, Andreas Lilja scored his first goal as a Wing to win the game for Detroit. At some point, Manny Legace replaced Chris Osgood in goal where he made some impressive saves to keep the Wings in the game.
Detroit outshot the Wild, 27-16.
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