Red Wings Stop Sharks at 6 Wins

By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine

Bobbleheads, Bud Lynch drops the face-off, a Wings third period comeback, and a 2-1 shootout win, there wasn’t much that tonight’s game lacked.

Budd Lynch ceremonial puck drop. Photo by AJ Petronzi/In Play! Magazine

San Jose opened scoring with a goal by Logan Couture, his first NHL career goal. That tally came in the late second period. Early in the third period Henrik Zetterberg stuffed a goal through Evgeni Nabokov off a Nicklas Lidstrom blast from the point. Chris Osgood would stand on his head throughout the rest of the third to force overtime.

Nabokov would return the favor in overtime by coming up huge on several multi-chance opportunities for the Wings. In the shootout, Osgood put up his best effort of the year stopping both San Jose’s chances. Pavel Datsyuk and Zetterberg pulled great dekes out of their bag of tricks and recorded goals in the shootout. Jason Williams was stopped by Nabokov who slid to the boards searching for the puck which he’d though had gone into the net.

Pavel Datsyuk Scores in the Shootout. Photo by Jack Rosenberg

The Wings played well in the latter stages of the game, but effectively stole a point from San Jose who played better throughout the game. The Sharks had won their last 6 games coming into tonight. The Wings did play the body tonight recording a team total of 32 hits, but only blocked 8 shots. Osgood stopped 34 of San Jose’s 35 shots on goal.

Henrik Zetterberg shootout game winner. Photo by Jack Rosenberg

In Play! Man of the Game: Henrik Zetterberg. Zetterberg recorded 3 shots on goal, one of which found its way to twine. He also gave the Wings a goal in the shootout with a great deke.
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