In Play Magazine
After going down by two goals, the Wings battled back for a 4-3 shootout win, their first win against St. Louis this season.
David Backes cracked open the score sheet and four minutes later the Blues followed up with a goal by Roman Polak. Early in the second, Tomas Holmstrom scored a goal to put him only one short of 200 in his career. Early in the third, Kris Draper tied the game up a two goals, but Brad Boyes put St. Louis in the lead again. Going into the last minute of the game, Henrik Zetterberg bounced the puck of a defender and into the net to tie the game.
In a shootout it came down to four shooters after Datsyuk and Andy McDonald scored. T. J. Oshie, the Blues forth shooter, beat Jimmy Howard but lost control of the puck. The Red Wings questioningly put Todd Bertuzzi up as their forth shooter, but Bertuzzi slowly skated into the zone and dumped a backhander over Steve Mason for the win.
The Red Wings didn’t play as dominating of a game as they had in their last two, but the main difference came in that tonight the Wings looked like they were shooting to score goals rather than for deflections. They also got huge games from Zetterberg, Draper, Darren Helm, Patrick Eves and Todd Bertuzzi. The result was the Wings first victory in three games.
In Play! Man of the Game: Todd Bertuzzi. Bertuzzi tied for a team high nine attempted shots and scored his first shootout goal of the season, it was his first attempt too. He was credited for three shots on goal, but one of his missed shots rang off the post and he also had a shot on a wide open net blocked by a teammate.
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