In Play Magazine
Dallas Stars goaltender Marty Turco continued his career trend of loosing in Joe Louis Arena as the Wings topped the Stars 4-1 on Monday night.
Drew Miller was first to tally a goal after beating out a Dallas defenseman for an iced puck. Then with 15 seconds left in the period Brenden Morrow tied the game. In the second, Darren Helm and Dan Cleary netted goals to push the Wings to a two goal lead, then in the third Todd Bertuzzi scored to cap off the night.
The Wings played a dominating game despite almost being matched in shots by the Stars. Most of the shots Dallas got on net were not clean shots, but Jimmy Howard managed to make several huge saves throughout the night. The Wings also saw big games from Kris Draper and Darren Helm, plus Miller had a good night and was rewarded with a goal. The Wings didn’t play any different than they have in their last few games, it was just that their “puck luck,” as Wings coach Mike Babcock calls it, improved as most of the bounces seemed to go their way tonight. The only sour note for the Wings was that they went 0-4 on the powerplay, but contrasting did go 4-0 on the penalty kill.
In Play! Man of the Game: Todd Bertuzzi. Bertuzzi, coming off of his shootout winner, scored a nice goal off of a shot from the boards. Bertuzzi, who was also the Man of the Game on Saturday, has looked good in most of his games this season but seems to be finding the back of the net lately.
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