In Play Magazine
It didn’t take long for the Wings to take a lead tonight and they never lost that lead, taking a 3-2 win over the Phoenix Coyotes.
After being called up from Grand Rapids, and then taking a bad penalty, Kris Newbury opened scoring on a failed pass to Drew Miller. Patrick Eves then scored shorthanded on another Newbury penalty. Phoenix’s Taylor Pyatt put the Coyotes on the board before the end of the first. Early in the second Derek Meech replaced the two goal lead. Radim Vrbata scored Phoenix’s final goal.
The big story coming into the game was the injury to Darren Helm, the big story coming out is the injury to Jonathan Ericsson. Ericsson is likely to miss a lot of time because the knee on knee collision with Shane Doan looked bad. However, there is NO reason that Doan should see any kind of punishment for the hit. It was a clean hit and their knees only made contact as a result of the position Ericsson was in and the size of both players. While unfortunate, it was a clean hit. The Wings finally played a game they should have won and did. This is three straight wins, and tonight was the first of those wins that came in regulation.
In Play! Man of the Game: Kris Newbury. After not impressing in training camp Newbury was all over the box score tonight. He scored the first goal and took the penalty that led to Eaves’ shorthanded goal.
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