OT: Red Wings/Pistons open thread

Submitted by ThadMattasagoblin on

Hopefully this will be something to take our minds off of the pathetic offense on our football team.

flashOverride

November 9th, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^

Filppula with an assist tonight...glad to see him doing well with another team. Don't know why it just wouldn't click for him in Detroit, at least not consistently. 

TheLastHarbaugh

November 9th, 2014 at 7:10 PM ^

The Jazz are doing a nice job of attacking Jennings and his horrific PnR defense, while also exploiting Moose and Drummond's poor rotations with extra passes. They've been accomplishing those things mainly through Hayward. The Pistons switched KCP onto Hayward and that helped, plus the Stones started knocking down all the wide open shots they were missing in the first. 

TheLastHarbaugh

November 9th, 2014 at 8:19 PM ^

Burke was having a horrifically bad game, getting absolutely carved up on D by Augustin and then Jennings (in addition to foul trouble) while bricking open looks, but he's starting to make some plays now.

Edit: Wow. The Pistons are choking this game away. Missing wide open shots. Just 5 points in the last 8 minutes, all from JSmoove. Putting 34 year old Caron Butler on Hayward the last 7 or so minutes and watching him score about 13 straight points.

ckersh74

November 9th, 2014 at 8:47 PM ^

And that wasn't any better. 

That right there is why the NHL teams are going to bigger and bigger goaltenders. Bishop just gave us nothing to shoot at. 

flashOverride

November 9th, 2014 at 8:53 PM ^

Yeah, but it's not like they don't suck against the rest of the league. No one has a bag of tricks on this team. I don't expect a goal of the year nominee every time, just don't always do the same damn thing! 

Getting a point is better than none, but you've got to get two at least some of the time, or you will find yourself looking up at too many teams come spring.

Zoltanrules

November 9th, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^

Crowd was literally laughing at how bad the shoot out efforts were. Still a comeback point vs Tampa Bay without Datsyuk is not awful.

ps Cant wait for the new arena to be built. Wings fans deserve better.