Red Wings - Game Recap
Red Wings' Streak Reaches Three with Win over Blues
ST. LOUIS, Missouri -- The Detroit Red Wings extended their winning streak to three games on Saturday night, defeating former Detroit goalie Manny Legace and the St. Louis Blues, 3-2.
The Red Wings got to Legace early, scoring on each of their first two shots of the game.
Tomas Holmstrom beat Legace at 4:22 of the first period, rifiling a shot from the slot into the top half of the net.
Just 1:59 later, Valtteri Filppula's first career NHL goal put Detroit up by two as he skated around two St. Louis defenders and into the left faceoff circle before cutting back in front of Legace to lift a shot over him.
Bill Guerin pulled the Blues to within one with 6:25 remaining in the second, deflecting a Christian Backman shot from the point past Detroit netminder Chris Osgood.
The teams traded goals in the third, with Holmstrom picking up a rebound goal at 6:34 and Radek Dvorak scoring on a shorthanded breakaway off a turnover at 16:34.
Detroit continued their recent trend of improvement on the penalty-kill, holding St. Louis scoreless on five chances. The Blues were also perfect while shorthanded, stopping all five Detroit attempts.
Osgood finished the night with 28 saves on 30 shots while Legace stopped 22 of 25 shots.
Notes: The win allowed team owner Mike Ilitch to avoid a St. Louis sweep of his teams after Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers failed to win a game in three tries in the Gateway City this week... Both starting goalies played for their opponent at one time in their respective careers. Legace was with Detroit from 1999-2006 while Osgood was with St. Louis from 2003-2004.
User Comments
Posted by SYfanSD on 10/28/2006 at 5:58 PM
Let's go for three!
Posted by YzerFan19 on 10/28/2006 at 8:21 PM
See if the Wings can snap the streak of St. Louis teams beating Detroit teams (damn Cardinals).
Kind of funny to be hoping for Osgood to have a strong game and Legace to get lit up.
Edit: Woah, Legace gets absolutely owned by Filppula! That was pretty!
Posted by detroitredwings00 on 10/28/2006 at 10:46 PM
wow what a game! Osgood was on top today! Flippula, Holmstrom, and i think Holmstrom again with 3 amazing goals. 3 good games. Off to Calgary!
Posted by SYfanSD on 10/28/2006 at 10:50 PM
Wow! I have no finger nails left! We started to fall apart at the end of the third because we got a little to confident. It would figure that when our penalty kill would come to life that we would give up a shorty. Oh well, as I said earlier a W is a W. On a more serious note we are starting to play much better, look out Flames 
And for the record, screw the Cardinals! 
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