Preparing for Game 6
With Detroit facing their biggest patch of adversity this season I figured I’d take a look around and see what other people are thinking and writing. I touched briefly on my feelings in this post.
…there isn’t much they really need to change…So the Wings head back to Anaheim knowing that they are as close as you can come to winning games without actually pulling out the win. That sucks but they need to just keep coming out in waves on shift after shift as their coach likes to say. There’s really nothing else they can do or you can point to as a problem right now. So long as they keep up the effort the puck will hopefully start to bounce their way in Game 6 on Tuesday.
Bill over at Abel to Yzerman likes what John Niyo wrote about Nick Lidstrom in today’s Detroit News.
Tonight, the 15-year NHL veteran, four-time Norris Trophy winner, three-time Stanley Cup champion and first-year captain will face arguably his biggest test, as the Wings try to beat the odds — and the Ducks — on the road in an elimination game, trailing 3-2 in the best-of-seven Western Conference finals against Anaheim.
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“Oh, yeah,” Lidstrom said, smiling. “I’m going to say something.”
I won’t steal Niyo’s thunder. You can read the rest of the article if you like. In a lighter moment, you can quote a famous quote from the movie Slapshot in this Helene St. James article at the Freep. “They brought their freaking toys!”
The plane ride was like any other this spring: Some Red Wings watched movies, others slept, the younger ones were busy with their PlayStations.
She reports that several players who were on the team that overcame a 3-2 deficit to Colorado in the 2002 playoffs and it has provided the team with confidence as they head into Game 6 tonight.
“The experience showed yesterday — the calmness and the belief that we have,” Dan Cleary said Monday. “We have a good mixture of veterans that have been there before and young guys that haven’t…Everybody knows deep inside how important the game is; I mean, let’s not put that fact away, but you can’t play tight and tentative. We have to play loose and hard. We have to just go at them and play our game, and the bounces will go our way.”
Ansar Khan at MLIVE writes that the Red Wings could certainly use big games from Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg. Both players have really stepped up in the playoffs. For Zetterberg it is his second solid playoff performance of his young career. Datsyuk has been great this playoff year after struggling to return from an injury last year.
Christy over at Behind the Jersey went to Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals to see the Pistons play the Cavs. She has a writeup on the big Pistons win. Matt over at On the Wings has his Gameday post up.
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I figured I could go to the Pistons’ game and try to get my mind off of the impending Wings’ game. To say I’m a bit stressed is an understatement. The Pistons’ game definitely lifted my spirits!
Christy,
That was a good game to catch! Charles Barkley et al were criticizing LeBron for passing the ball to Donyell Marshall at the end of the game for a three point shot but it was the right play. Fortunately he missed the shot.
Hopefully it won’t take the Pistons 7 games to close them out this year.