We Will Not Go Quietly Into The Night

The Red Wings keep their come back hopes alive with a 4-3 come from behind win in San Jose tonight. This game was another frantic pedal to the medal tilt between what i think are the two best teams in the league at this point. San Jose took an early lead before the end of the first period when Setoguchi tipped in a shot from the point. The Sharks really turned it up in the second period causing a couple of odd man rushes that finally paid off for them when Joe Pavelski put the puck over Jim Howard into the net on a two on one break. That's when the Magic Man made his first appearance of the night finessing his way across the blue line in the Sharks zone and finding Kronwall who had pinched down low to allow him to fire a snap shot into the net cutting the lead to one before the end of the second period. I'm sure all of the San Jose fans and players thought that when Logan Couture scored on an early third period break away they were into the conference finals. But the Wings would score the next three goals with Datsyuk contributing on two of those three third period goals including the game winner when he picked a Sharks pocket and played keep away until he could pass it back to Lidstrom who shot the puck onto Holmstroms stick for the tip in.

Jim Howard was once again very solid in net keeping his team in striking distance throughout the first two periods and then protecting the lead in the last five minutes of the game. Through two periods he had faced a lot of rubber and more then a few odd man rushes but still kept to his game and played the way that he wants to play in net and it is showing with how good he has been. The Red Wings now come back to Detroit for game 6 with the chance to win another game and survive once again. I was at game four on Friday for my birthday and i have been to my fair share of playoff games over the years for good and bad post-season runs, but the way that the crowd on Friday willed their team to the win in the third period was probably one of the most intense and loudest crowds i have ever been apart of. I like many other Wings fans are trying to secure their game 6 tickets for Tuesday night for the chance to be apart of that kind of atmosphere again, and finals be damned I'm going.

Goodnight from the greatest sports city in the world and congratulations to Justin Verlander on throwing his 2nd career no-hitter and to Papa Grande for getting his 200th career save.

Drew in the D