OT: Red Wings Vs. Bruins Game 4 Open Thread

Submitted by TheDirtyD on

What: The Detroit Red Wings Vs. The Boston Bruins

Where: Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena

When: Puck Drop approx: 8:00PM EST April 24th, 2014

The Line: Boston -1.5

TV: NBCSN, TSN, FSD, NESN

Game 1 Detroit stole 1-0 in a lethargic chess match 

Games 3&4 Boston outplayed and at times dominated Detroit. Winning 4-1 and 3-0

Line up changes for Detroit: 

Out: Daniel Alfredsson(likely back for game 5), Tomas Jurco, Jonathan Ericsson, Stephen Weiss

In: Henrik Zetterberg missed 30 games (back), Todd Bertuzzi (healthy stracth)

Detroit's lines they skated with this morning:

Forwards

Justin Abdelkader-Pavel Datsyuk-Henrik Zetterberg

Todd Bertuzzi-Riley Sheahan-Tomas Tatar

Johan Franzen-Darren Helm-Gustav Nyquist

Drew Miller-Luke Glendening-David Legwand

 

Defensemen

Niklas Kronwall-Brendan Smith

Danny DeKeyser-Kyle Quincey

Brian Lashoff-Jakub Kindl

 

Tenders

Jimmy Howard (starting)

Jonas Gustavsson

 

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Worthing

April 24th, 2014 at 11:15 PM ^

agree. and more so for last off season, but man would i have liked a dman that actually meant something. i like the young risers dekeyser as a stay at home big d, smith as a offensive defensman ( he needs another year or so still). not just a body like quincy. that would have been useful if dekeyser and smith were more along in their development

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flashOverride

April 24th, 2014 at 11:28 PM ^

Actually, I was wrong, he had ONE strong playoff season. Really strong*, but still just one.

I know hindsight is 20/20, but still, he was 28 when he really broke out. Hossa had been producing since his early 20s. That should have indicated something. 

*Until you consider the fact that 9 of his 13 goals came during the sweep of the absolute tire fire that was the Colorado Avalanche.

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93Grad

April 25th, 2014 at 12:03 AM ^

Veteran free agent that Holland signed. Since then it's been 5 years of horrible signings, including the Franzen extension. Holland is far too stubborn to admit he made a mistake with Johan. No way they cut him. Holland will simply resign all his pet veterans thus eating up all their cap space and everyone will say what a great job he's done because of some meaningless playoff streak.

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I Bleed Maize N Blue

April 25th, 2014 at 1:00 AM ^

Per the new CBA teams got two compliance buyouts to be used last year and this year, IIUC. Player bought out no longer counts against the cap; team must pay 2/3 of the remaining contract over 2x the remaining duration. Wings already used one on Carlo Coaiacovo. Franzen seems the logical choice for #2.

Wikipedia - Compliance Buyout

NHL - Compliance Buyout Tracker

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BornInAA

April 24th, 2014 at 11:33 PM ^

We are a 1-line team, prior to tonight a 1/2-line without Hank. 

Boston rolls 3-4 good lines, like we used to.

Maybe our youth will improve next year.

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flashOverride

April 24th, 2014 at 11:45 PM ^

This defense can't hold up against multiple lines of skilled forwards. Kindl is mediocre, DeKeyser and Smith are still fairly green, Quincey scares the shit out of me whenever he's on the ice, and I don't see a legit NHL D in Lashoff, though I know he's young, too. Even with Ericsson back in, he and Kronwall as the only competent defensemen aren't enough against Boston without absolute grand theft goaltending. For the most part goaltending hasn't been a problem, but it hasn't been lights out, either. 

And of course, four goals in four games needs no comment. That's something I expected, I knew the Wings would have to gut out low-scoring games. But you can't do that when you can't keep your opponent off the board.

Oh well, this was a legit "Just happy to make the playoffs" year, and the experience will be valuable for the kids. 

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goblue20111

April 25th, 2014 at 1:12 PM ^

Now that I think about it, why is Franzen so untradable? His cap hit is only $ 3.9 million, that seems reasonable.  Are teams that afraid of him that they don't see him worth the remainder of money owed?

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