Yesterday night the Red Wings slaughter The Blues in a game that didn’t had Tomas Holmstrom due to a bruise knee and Henrik Zetterberg suffering of a back injury, which give it the chance to a few players that hadn’t seeing much action on the ice lately.
One of those players was Valtteri Filppula, who had the first two-goal game of his career and scoring those in less than 3 minutes, he was given the chance and took advantage of it, he is just going through one of his best periods as he had scored 7 goals in his last 9 games, something outstanding considering that he was scoreless for 10 games before that.
“I got a couple lucky bounces and my teammates made some great plays setting me up, I was in good position and they got me the puck.” Said Filppula
Detroit’s coach Mike Babcock couldn’t be happier, he was missing two of his key starting players, but the guys replacing them knew it was their chance to prove that they have what it takes to keep on playing on a regular basis, if you have a team that is lacking flaws, injuries are not potentially harmful for the whole team structure, it is actually a way to find out what is the condition of the players that have being on the bench for a while.
Another impressive performance was given by goalie Chris Osgood, who stopped 20 shots to record his 45th career shutout, it was also a sort of “revenge game” for him as he had a streak of 8 games unbeaten and fell to The Blues on December 20th when they won at home 3-2.
This was The Wings fifth victory in 6 games and the fourth defeat for The Blues in 6 games, something outstanding considering that St Louis was playing at home and in a packed Scottrade center in front of the biggest crowd of the season, 19,250.
"The last time we came in here we let them dictate the physical style of play, this time, we just said, 'let's go out there after them."' said Coach Babcock.
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