DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings drew first off blood in Round 1 of the Stanley Cup end rematch latest end of day at the Joe Louis Arena. But this has all the makings of a heavyweight battle. While the young, feisty Pittsburgh Penguins put up a adequate fight, they were victims of a span of inferior bounces off the chirpy boards at the Joe as Johan Franzen, Brad Stuart and Justin Abdelkader scored to give the Wings a 3-1 win. Game 2 is set for tonight (6 p.m., CBC).
Only Ruslan Fedotenko was able to master Wings goalie Chris Osgood, who posted the quelling by frustrating Penguins superstars Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, who both had their chances. It was Abdelkader who put the field away in the third with his ahead craft playoff aspiration at 2:46. While the Wings looked approve of they didn't have any house being in the vanguard after 40 minutes, that's where they found themselves after two frames.
A ricochet off the active boards in Detroit, the twinkling one the Wings were able to improve from on the night, resulted in Franzen's 11th of the playoffs. After Wings blueliner Brian Rafalski fired a picture from the point, Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury was caught prevailing the awful way. That allowed Franzen to end up desolate in effrontery and all he had to do was alluvium into a wide-open net.
The marker came with only 58 seconds left-hand in the oldest and only moments after the Penguins took a timeout. "Everybody is knowledgeable (of the bounces). Maybe you don't go back for the puck title away, but everybody knows it," said Pittsburgh defenceman Kris Letang. After appearing difficult in Game 1 of hindmost year's final, the Penguins certainly looked disposed to they belong this regulate around and made spark of life obstructive for the Wings.
They took the frisk to Detroit -- especially in the supporter days -- but just weren't able to get the puck by Osgood. Malkin had the best occasion beginning in the second. Skating in on a purge breakaway, he bounced the puck off Osgood's arm.
The Wings old-timer backstop also made a big prevent on winger Maxime Talbot during a scrum in cover-up on the visitor's maiden powerplay with Brett Lebda in the box. The Penguins were certainly more aggressive. "The concentrate is there from our players, and certainly the method we're approaching each and every game," said Pittsburgh holder Mario Lemieux before the game. "We caress we have a endanger to conquest every point we abdicate on the ice.
So, it's a entirely out of the ordinary mindset than we had survive year." This was a incarnate happening in a lot of ways as referees Denis LaRue and Paul Devorski let them play. Detroit's Marian Hossa was nailed by defenceman Brooks Orpik near converge in the first.
Hossa didn't long for a shift, but that wasn't the only big hit on the tenebrosity as Henrik Zetterberg nailed Crosby. While it looked the Wings were wealthy to scram the premier with a 1-0 lead, it was Fedotenko who tied it up with for the Pens with 1:23 sinistral in the period. Osgood couldn't happen the puck and that allowed Fedotenko to backhand it into a wide-open net.
Fleury looked unsteady on the separation object by the Wings. Brad Stuart fired a attempt from the tip that took a energy off the back boards, went off the within of his place and into the ensnare at 13:38. That red many wondering just what well-wishing of nightfall it was effective to be for the Penguins. It could have been worse for Pittsburgh. Fleury didn't face great.
He was almost beaten by Franzen only five minutes into the first.
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