Howard-led Red Wings shut down Canucks

The Detroit Red Wings FINALLY won in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. “If they keep doing that, I think we’ll have a little more success going forward”.

“It’s tough sitting out at the start of the year when you’re trying to make the team”.

After opening the season as the No. 2 man in net behind Petr Mrazek, Howard made his third consecutive start.

“It’s a fine line, I think”, said defenseman Brandon Manning, who was stripped of the puck near the Flyers’ net Tuesday night on the Red Wings’ first-period goal.

Still, despite the loss, there were some good things to come from this game.

The game sagged at that point until Wayne Simmonds dropped Jonathan Ericsson with a straight left hand in a one-punch TKO less than six minutes into the period.

“I think we were outshooting them, 6-2, I thought we were building”, Blashill said.

They can change the coach and the players, but one thing never changes in Hockeytown.

Jimmy Howard may have saved the game for the Wings with a series of frantic sprawling saves against a flurry of Canucks shots that somehow stayed out. Noticing the Canucks goalie was way out of his net, Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg fired a shot from center ice, only to be denied by a diving stop.

“We played pretty well tonight, but it is the same story again”, Canucks coach Willie Desjardins said.

Daniel Sedin scored for Vancouver (5-9-1).

The Sedins were not matched against Zetterberg’s line for the goal. “TK is fast on loose pucks and we want to move the puck quick in the offensive zone, cycle and move it over and create chances. We just can’t get anything to go in”, Daniel Sedin said.

“You give up a power play goal against here, a few sloppy plays there. but if every guy digs in a little more you can try to take one of them off the board every night and grow from there”. Many players need games to adjust to the different speed that comes with the National Hockey League. The Red Wings did win the first two games of the 1997 Stanley Cup Final in Philadelphia on their way to a four-game sweep.

Burns made it 2-0 at 17:26 with a wrist shot from the right circle that whizzed inside Holtby’s left shoulder.

However, you simply can’t put up another bagel on the power play – and be in a 1-for-25 funk – and expect to beat any team, let alone the good ones.

The first period was all Red Wings at first.

Bob Kazer, who took over as the play-by-play broadcaster of the Grand Rapids Griffins in 2000, was called up to fill in for the ailing Ken Kal for this evening’s Wings’ game against the visiting Vancouver Canucks.

“I’d focus more on this year”, Blashill said. Tonight’s game will air in the Holland market on 1450 WHTC and in the Kalamazoo market on WQLR 1660 The Fan, beginning at 7:10 PM.

Notes: Red Wings D Tyler Bertuzzi made his National Hockey League debut in place of Thomas Vanek, who missed his seventh game with a lower body injury.