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If you missed yesterday’s interview with Brian Lashoff, take a look. Was interesting to hear a player’s perspective on when to step in as a coach and when to let a player learn the game. Many thanks to Grand Rapids for all of their help on this.
Tonight, the Red Wings return to action against a team in the Bruins that has also not been pleased with their start. Management made decisions that many of you have voiced you’d like to see happen in Detroit.
Boston is heading into this game with a very public amount of dissatisfaction. A head coaching swap, and Lindholm called out by name (though he has scored since). Detroit’s dissatisfaction amongst the fans is not secret and many had hoped Detroit would follow suit in some way.
To be honest, depending on what we could offload, Lindholm was a player I was looking at. Columbus isn’t dealing yet due to a “better than expected” start and a deal with Boston would seem unlikely. Detroit is coming off of a win they needed but on a collision course with an angry Bruins team. Not good.
After talking with
Dan Watson it’s feels like a lot of excitement is brewing in Grand Rapids but Detroit’s free agent “plugs” as we wait on some of those players aren’t working. It seems unlikely that the team will make a move to at least stabilize the back end (or anything else) so the answers have to come from within. Here are the stats so far:
Power Play: DET 30.2% (5th). BOS 11.9% (32nd)
PK: DET 67.3% (32nd) BOS 76.8% (22nd)
Faceoff: DET 50.8%(17th). BOS 51.5% (11th)
goals for: DET 2.53 (26th). BOS 2.33 (31st)
against: DET 3.21 (19th). BOS 3.29 (24th)
So, a couple of things. Detroit’s power play at 5th goes against the worst power play in the league. Then, Detroit has the worst PK in the league. Goals for and against are insanely close, both teams have negative differentials.
It’s become impossible for yours truly to guess the outcome. Last game the power play had been at 2nd and went dry. The team then had two players score their 3rd of the year. It depends on what team hits the ice and if they have found any way to mesh.
Last year Boston was on an insane tear at the beginning of the year, 2 years ago Detroit swept the Bruins in the season series. This year 2 very unhappy fan bases will watch this contest.
Let me know your thoughts on what we’ll see on the ice for this intradivisional matchup. It’s a “4 point” game and both teams are desperate to move forward.
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