By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
Even through no Detroit Red Wings play for team Canada, most of the team’s administration has offices in Joe Louis Arena. Steve Yzerman spent a tough couple days answering questions about Team Canada, and Coach Mike Babcock was thrown under the bus yesterday when he announced that Roberto Luongo would start instead of Martin Brodeur, but Canada beat Norway 8-0. Danny Heatley had two goals and Jerome Iginla appeared to have scored a hat-trick, but as of this morning the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has credited his first goal to Rick Nash, leaving Iginla with only two goals last night.
Russia also scored eight goals last night, beating Latvia 8-2. Concerns were raised about the age of former Red Wing Sergei Fedorov, but Fedorov recorded the primary assists on both of Russia’s opening goals. Alexander Ovechkin had two goals, the second of which Detroit Red Wing Pavel Datsyuk assisted on. It was Datsyuk only point of the night. Check earlier In Play! posts for info on Team USA's victory.
More Olympic updates coming today as Finland (Red Wings’ Valteri Filppula) plays Belarus (Grand Rapid’s Sergei Kolosov), and Team Sweden (Nicklas Lidstrom, Johan Franzen, Niklas Kronwall, and Henrik Zetterberg) take on Germany.
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