The Red Wings move to 11-3-1 on the season downing the Av's 3-1 tonight down at the Joe. Todd Bertuzzi opened the scoring in the game sending a laser over Avalanche goalie Peter Budaj's shoulder making it 1-0 Wings on a power play. About 30 second into the 2nd period Lidstrom sprung Jiri Hudler coming out of the penalty box who skated in on Budaj and banked the rebound off the back of his leg for his 1st goal of the season giving his team a 2-0 lead. 5 minutes later Bertuzzi would back his way into the Av's zone and find a streaking Cleary who beat Budaj with a backhand that may or may not have taken a deflection off a defender on its way in, the 2nd would end with the Wings up 3-0. The Avalanche were playing the back end of a back-to-back tonight and they seemed to finally find their legs in the 3rd skating hard and forcing the Wings to take a few penalties including a to many men which lead to a 5-3 powerplay opportunity for them that they took full advantage of scoring to bring themselves to within 2 goals of the Wings. Thats when Jim Howard put his foot down and seemed to say "not tonight", Howie turned away 21 of 22 shots on the night including 8 big shots in the 3rd clinching the win for the Red Wings tonight and moving his record to 9-1-1 on the young season. The Wings have three more games at home in this current home stand including their next game on Wednesday with the red-hot St.Louis Blues.
Goodnight from the greatest sports city in the world and i hope all you Michigan State footballers enjoyed your week off its back to work on Monday.
Drew in the D
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