Detroit 4 WIld 1

- Tonight the Wild were gunned down by the Red Wings falling to 16-14-4. They were 13th in the West going into tonight. Big key is starting to win some home games, they are 8-8-2 overall at home this year that ranked them 21 out of 30 teams prior to the game tonight. Their home record HAS to improve if they have any illusions of making the playoffs.

- Interesting play tonight during the game. Andrew Brunette makes great play to take two defenders with him and goes to the net looks back door to Marco Scandella who had jumped into the play on the backside. Brunette threads a sick pass thru the slot and nobody was there....It should have been a tap in goal for Scandella but he peeled off when he was in too deep and Brunettes beautiful pass went for not.

Its the little things that are hurting the Wild and Scandellas lack of confidence in the offensive zone cost them a goal tonight.

- First two Detroit goals scored tonight below the goal line. Listening to Former North Star and NHL Network analyst Larry Murphy in between periods, He said, "those goals look lucky but Detroit is so smart with the puck you always have to be aware when they are around the net and even know those were unconventional goals they were calculated." 

I would agree to a certain extent with Murphy except for the part of Nik Backstrom playing dodge puck on the second one. The first one also took a couple of funny bounces on the way in but I will give Henrik Zetterberg credit for banking it in off his backside.

- Wild only had only 8 shots thru the first two periods.

- Jose Theodore will start in goal tomorrow vs Columbus, per Todd Richards after the game.

- Also Richards expects defenseman Cam Barker to be re-inserted into the lineup after being a healthy scratch teh last three games.

- Richards also said, "That he's sure Nickolas Backstrom would agree that he should have stopped that second goal Detroit scored." It gave Detroit a 2-0 lead at the end of 1.

- In the US World Jr teams 3-2 win vs Finland, Wild second rounder and Denver University Freshman star Jason Zucker scored in the win. Zucker leads freshman goal scorers with 14.

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