By the Numbers: Oilers 4, Red Wings 1

Postgame Thoughts

• Serves me right. I go and say something nice about Jimmah and he goes out and gets scored on twice by Edmonton and twice by his teammates.I’m putting my reservation at Crow on hold.

• Besides the SUCKFEST that was Jimmah in goal last night, not much else good happened for the Wings, punctuated by the injury to Jonathan Ericsson that may or may not hold him out of action this weekend. Normally, I’d be OK with this fact given that Ericsson has been pretty rough throughout this season, but when your next defensive options are Andy Delmore or Doug Janik, things aren’t quite so rosy.

• Honestly though, how firggin bad was that entire series where Edmonton got their third goal. I have no idea how Derek Meech was able to make a routine pass go awry so badly, but he sure showed me. And then Jimmah looks as stupid as the coyote after getting schooled by the roadrunner as he lays in the crease and watches the puck SLOW roll under his equipment and into the net. It was almost comical.

• Two non-comical items: 1) Since when has Patrick O’Sullivan become such a Wings killer? Good lord. 2) Now that Howard has allowed 9 goals in two starts against the Oilers, maybe Mike Babcock should think about starting someone else in net when they play them again on March 19th and 30th. I’m just sayin…

• Honestly, I got nothing else on this one. I’m just going to do like Larry Murphy and “ball this one up and throw it away.” And maybe drink another liter of whiskey.

Numbers are below. Have fun.

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Line Production

*The season totals are updated here and here.

Line Production

Special Teams Production

*No special teams scoring

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CSSI

*Season CSSI numbers are updated here.

Goal 1 (EDM 1 DET 0): Lubomir Visnovsky (6) unassisted at 5:50, First Period

• Wings on ice: Abdelkader, Maltby, May, Lebda, Kindl

• DP(-): Lebda (-1.5) OWN GOAL FAIL.

Goal 2 (EDM 2 DET 0): Robert Nilsson (2) from Ryan Stone (4) and Zack Stortini (3) at 17:09, First Period

• Wings on ice: Abdelkader, Maltby, May, Ericsson, Kindl

• DP(-): Kindl (-1) had every chance to get this puck out of the zone and ends up turning it over…to Stortini of all people. Abdelkader (-0.5) guesses wrong on which way Stone is going to go and takes  himself out of position to block the pass to Nilsson. Ericsson (-1.5) for getting absolutely OWNED by Nilsson. What a move. Play the body, Jonny.

Goal 3 (EDM 2 DET 1): Danny Cleary (6) from Todd Bertuzzi (9) and Nicklas Lidstrom (8) at 19:59, First Period

• Wings on ice: Zetterberg, Cleary, Bertuzzi, Lidstrom, Ericsson

• HP(+): Lidstrom (+1) for a great outlet pass. Bertuzzi (+1) for the nice vision and on-the-tape pass. Cleary (+1) for the nice finish to beat the horn.

Goal 4 (EDM 3 DET 1): Patrick O’Sullivan (5) from Jean-Francois Jacques (4) at 8:50, Second Period

• Wings on ice: Datsyuk, Leino, Bertuzzi, Stuart, Meech

• DP(-): Meech (-1.5) for a god-awful giveaway at the blue line. That was terrible. The rest of this is all a big JIMMAH FAIL.

Goal 5 (EDM 4 DET 1): Patrick O’Sullivan (6) from Sheldon Souray (5) at 11:47, Second Period

• Wings on ice: Zetterberg, Holmstrom, Cleary, Lidstrom, Stuart

• DP(-): Zetterberg (-1) for failing to pick up O’Sullivan. Watch the play. Hank is just aimlessly skating around and O’Sullivan slips right behind him and into the area where Hank should have been. The rest? JIMMAH FAIL.

Miscellaneous Points:

• HP(+): Not that I should do this, because the whole team sucked tonight, but here’s (+0.5) for Kindl. He played well, looked confident and only had the one failed clearing attempt that turned into Nilsson’s goal. Let’s hope he builds on it in NY/NJ this weekend, as he will be traveling with the team.
• DP(-): Holmstrom (-1) for missing a gaping net. Abdelkader (-1) for missing a glorious chance from Ericsson. Datsyuk (-1) for triple-cocking on a wide open net as well. Leino (-1) for another no show. Blown chances, boys.

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Tags: Andy Delmore, Derek Meech, Doug Janik, Edmonton Oilers, Jonathan Ericsson, Patrick O'Sullivan, The Jimmah Howard Experiment