Red Wings Win Game 7, Advance to play Blackhawks!

Those pesky, pesky Ducks! They took us to a 7 game series that took years off my life, broke Dekeyser's hand, and included 4 OT's (Wings winning 3). They never gave up, coming back from multiple games where they were down by at least 2 goals in the 3rd period to tie and force overtime. The series went back and forth with neither team being able to win consecutive games...UNTIL last night!


The Red Wings played a fantastic game last night doing what I said they had to...score early and FIRST! Our goal scorer's in order from first to last were Zetterberg, Abdelkader and Filppula. Abdelkader scoring his on a short handed break away and Filppula getting his first of the series on a backhanded wrister which started with a great pass from the Captain!


The Ducks did not quit and got another goal late in the third making it 3-2 which had Wings fans thinking "not again!" But in this game we didn't give up the lead and go to OT, we battled hard and stuck it out. We won those 50/50 pucks, we battled hard on the boards and we made Hiller's night hell by getting men to the net. Our defense shutdown their scoring chances and Howard was magnificent once again! Great team effort tonight from a Detroit team that truly NEVER GAVE UP! (NGU)


“I just thought we had played so well and we were playing hard enough that we were going to be rewarded,” coach Mike Babcock said. “I thought our guys were great tonight. I thought we were organized, I thought we were prepared, I thought we were pretty loose. We started on time. We had lots of good players.”


Now we look forward to the series that the hockey world has been salivating over. Two original six teams that absolutely hate one another. The last time we met in the playoffs, the Wings beat the Hawks 4-1 in the Western Conference finals (where we lost to the Penguins in Game 7 in the Stanley Cup Finals). This series is filled with bad blood and I can't wait to see the Wings go toe to toe with the best regular season team this year! Hawks won all 4 meetings this season with 3 going to overtime and 2 ending in a shootout.


As for right now, I am living off of last night's amazing game 7, series ending win by my Wings and will continue to do so until the end of my work day today. Real soon, my blood will start to boil and all of my angst, hate and animosity towards the Chicago Blackhawks will be put on full display as we prepare for round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs!!  GET READY!!

GO WINGS!!

HIGHLIGHTS in case you missed it:
Highlights from Game 7