Live Blog - Game 1 - Detroit 4, Calgary 1

Hasek vs Kipprusoff

Period 1
Zetterberg is back - Bertuzzi out. Flames are slow. Big hit on Lombardi via Schneider. Samuelsson trying to fight with someone. Wings get first Power Play. Woot. Slashing on Haselius. Zetterberg slowish and mishandling the puck - but first game in 20, he'll get it. Wings getting some great shots on net. HOLY SAVE BY HASEK!! Lots of puck mishandlings. Calgary likes to push and shove,huh? no score at 16:12.

SCOOOOORE!! FILPPULA!!! at 4:51! 1-0 Wings! Even strength.

Not shortness of hits on the part of the red wings. They came to play it looks like. Calgary penalty #2. Tangauy. SCORE HUDLER!! No, Lidstrom. 8:36 in.

Penalty on Red Wings - Datsyuk for slashing. Oooh, a breakaway - ish. Successful kill.

Another penalty on Calgary - Conroy for Holding.

VS has the game blocked out tonight. Thank god for FSN.

1/2 already on the power play with 4 shots. Oooh, Calgary almost effed up! Ugly save by Kipper. Cleared. PIcked up by samuelsson. Hudler to samuelsson, heBlocks lombardi. Shot on hasek saved.

Tripping on Samuelsson. 41 seconds of 4 on 4. Datsyuk shoots - calgary attempts to clear - kept in, oops, shot out by schneider. Calgary PPl. Iginla hit by Chelios. Hasek saves & hangs on. No rebound.

my 7 year old son told me what a rebound was earlier. it was cute.

Cleared out by detroit. brough back up behind net. Up to point. Cleared by Cleary. PP Over. Kris Draper was th 6th best Face off guy in the league. Detroit was best FO team.

Last minute of play. Lots of time this period in Calgary zone. HOlmer shoots. Save. Datsyuk hits someone. Centered to datsyuk & carried out. End of first

Wings up 2-0 after FIrst.

FSN Has Zetterberg interview.
Was he nervous? No, just had to keep his legs going. Felt great.
Said before the game? Keep the puck in their (Calgary) zone. Make no mistakes.

Shots on net in first Detroit 11, Calgary 7.
Penalties Detroit 2, Calgary 3
Hits. Detroit 16, Calgary 11.

Other games right now. Rangers 2, Thrashers 1 and New Jersey 1, Tampa Bay 0

PERIOD 2

Kippefusoff is making some great saves to start this period. Detroit with a 2 on 1, Kipper made an UNREAL save. Calgary is upset, and now its 4 on 4 now. Datsyuk has a hard time shooting it. Taken all the way back down. by the wings. Shot - damn, kipprusoff again. Hit at center by Franzen. Face off in Detroit End. Calgary putting on pressure Brought to calgary end taken back to Neutral zone, and back 5 on 5. Datsyuk SCORE! 3-0 Wings. Finally, after three great try's and he tucked it between kipprusoffs pads.

Shot on Kipper -saved. 7 1/2 gone nt he second. Penalty on Calgary. Primeau.

FYI - Live blog is kinda hard. Half of this shit is incohearant.

ALmost score. Couldn't get shot off. Schneider fans on it. Penalty over. SCOOOORE! Schneider with a Rocket shot. Nothing Kiprusoff could do. 10 left in the second. . 4-0 Wings!

Cleary to goal. Save Kiprusoff. Calgary tries, get blocked by Draper. Hasek Save. Can't find it, its in the corner. Point blank stop for Hasek - Pretty. Scrum in front Whistle.

Commercial. Breathe. Shots 24-11

Zetterberg takes it ti Kiprusoff - Save. Whistle. Not a lot on that shot. Face off controlled by Detroit. Franzen to close, no place to shoot. Cleared into Detroit end. Calgary holds the puck in detroit end but can't get a shot off. Kiprusoff gives it to Lidstrom, passes it to Datsyuk - Shot - Save. Penalty to Calgary. Headed to bench was both goalies. Wait, its on Detroit. Hank going in for holding.

Lankow with the puck, shot high. Chelios clears, killing time in the Calgary zone. Calgary ices it. Detroit controls faces off, but sent into detroit end and then cleared back up by Cleary again. Fough for in the corner, calgary comes out with it. Penalty over. Taken back into Calgary zone. Back out but picked up by Lebda and sent back - to chelios. HE takes it in and shoots. Save by Kiprusoff. Phaneuf looking to fight someone. Back into detroit zone. Taken by Lidstrom. Line change and its taken back into the Neutral zone. Husalius fans at it. HOlmer takes it to center. Cleary shoots it bcak to Detroit end. Back to center. to Det End. Sent down to calgary end. Filppula gets puck to chelios, shot saved. Another penalty on Calgary. 57 left in the second.

FYI - there is a bird in the building. ON the ice.

PP for the wings. Zetterberg to Schneider. Shot wide. HOlmstrom screens schneider. Datsyuk shoots wide and teh second is over.

3rd Period

Beginning of the 3rd. PP Detroit. Face off controlled by Detroit. Well, sort of. Icing on detroit. 54 seconds left in power play. Zetterberg to Datsyuk. to Lidstrom back to Datsyuk. Kpet in. Shot - Missed the net. BREAK AWAY CALGARY! Hasek SAVE! Scneider got caught in a rut and fell, letting in the man. Power Play over. Back out of detroit zone into Calgary zone. taken back out. Tanguay loses the puck. Hasek saves.. right thru the crease. Dom SAVE again! Trickles down the ice. Calder to lang to Samuelsson in front. SHOOT. Miss. Calgary changes - Detroit Changes. Hasek makes a save. Chelios is hurt and goes off the ice. Flames has 5 shots on net in the first 4 minutes of the 3rd. Thats all of their second period total. Puck moved end to end. Icing on calgary. Chelios was hit from behind , but is okay and back on the ice. No missed shifts. Calgary changes D. Back to calgary end. Bak to DEtroit end. Back to Calgary end. Fuck, its pong. Neutral Zone. To Calgary end... fuuuck. Detroit. Calgary - intercepted Save Kiprusoff. Lidstrom shot, save kiprusoff. Calgary hard to controlt he puck in Detroit End Detroit takes puck quickly. Icing on Calgary again. Their playing dump and chase. Detroit with some shots on kipper, all saved. cleared but taken back by the wings. Puck up, hits mesh and no call? offsides Calgary. Shot - zetterberg. Save on the short side. Markov HITS THE POST! Iginla runs Hank. Penalty.Iginla is pissed. Iginla tried tearing off Hanks head! Oooh, 5-3 for 2 full minutes. Iginla and Phaneuf both in the box. NO goals in that 5-3. Taken down by calgary - offsides on detroit.

WHistle with 7:57 left in the game. Iginla back in the box? Commercial.

(butterbean still fights?)

Were back. 4 on 4. Phaneuf and Schneider are in the box. Kipper stops a 60 footer. 1:02 left in 4 on 4 as hasek hangs onto a shot. 7 left in the game. WIngs win FO. Set up. Cleared to NZ. Up to Calgary zone. Iginla has NO shots in the game. 3 left in the 4 on 4... 2, 1, PP for the Flames. Held by calgary. Calgary Scores. Power play goal 4-1 Detroit. 5:05 left in teh game. That would have been a pretty save, instead it was an ugly goal.

Calgary is showing up finally. 4 left in the game, down by 3. Detroit sat back during the 5 on 3. Wish that was different now, huh? Zetterberg shoots in for a full change for Detroit. Calgary trying to prove soemthing for Sunday. This game is gone already for them. Shot in - soft on kipper. Saved. 2:23 left. Commercial.

WOOT OCTOPI!!!

Calgary moves it in, hasek picks up. Calgary starts a fight. Datsyuk, Schneider & Lidstrom have 2 pts each. Filppula has first ever PP goal. Hasek 19 saves.

2 minutes. Detroit End, Lebda takes it away. 3 on 2 as cleary bowls over Kiprusoff. Warrener piles on top. Draper in the middle. Here comes Markov. Kipper is acting hurt - he's fine. Brad Stewart has Cleary by the collar, shaking the eff out of him. Ritchie is being an arse. Cleary gets a penalty. They pull em apart. Richie & Stewart also get penalties. The loudspeaker at the Joe: "No one, And i mean No one, Comes into our house and pushes us around" Crowd goes wild. Kipper is ugly with black hair. Ugly anyway.
WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU plays

Back on the ice. Calgary on the PP. Extra two to Cleary for Goalie interfearance. Phanulf to chelios. Iginla gets a penalty. Check of the game to Franzen for a nice open ice check. Woot. 44 Left. Calgary still hitting hard.

Game over, Shots 46-20 Detroit. and Calgary is still starting fights after the horn.

OTHER GAMES OF THE NIGHT?

Rangers beat Atlanta 4 - 3
New Jersey beat Tampa Bay 5-3
and
Buffalo beat the Islanders 4-1.

I can't tell you about them, i did not watch.
WINGS WOOT!!

What did i learn? Live Blogs SUCK!