Mrazek already has a career-high four shutouts this season.
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Tomorrow night, the Red Wings have another home game, taking on the Ottawa Senators. Mrazek is expected to be the starter tonight but coach Blashill has made it known that he won’t reveal the starter until game day. Vincent Trocheck leads Florida with 17 goals, Jaromir Jagr has 21 assists and Aleksander Barkov has 103 shots on goal.
Sidney Crosby scored on a pair of breakaways to extend his goal streak to a career-best seven games and added two assists to help the Pittsburgh Penguins continue their surge with a 6-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.
“It was a head shot, ” Panthers center Nick Bjugstad.
The Red Wings were outshot 10-5 in the first period, but Mrazek kept them in the game and Gustav Nyquist made a great play to put Detroit ahead. I think everybody watched the Super Bowl, that’s a good message that in the end you have to play good defense.
“I thought it was a cheap shot, ” Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said. But the Panthers would be a foolish side to underestimate them, as Detroit are a tough prospect at home and prior to that game had won six of their last seven away matches as well. “Just a good hockey hit”.
There are few more soul-sucking ways to waste a Saturday afternoon than watching your team get blown out in Detroit, but inserting an hour-long second intermission into the game is definitely one of them.
The Islanders have a 5-5-1 record without Boychuk, who is an important part of the team on both the offensive and defensive ends of the ice. He signed a six-year extension worth about $35 million with Florida last month.
Abdelkader, who was also involved in a third-period fight with Derek MacKenzie, was asked if he thought the incident could carry over to the next meeting between the Red Wings and Panthers March 19 in Florida. Through the first two periods, Montoya did a great job to keep the score locked at zero.
That changed when Detroit defenseman Jakub Kindl sent a fluttering puck toward net and Tatar deflected it. He beat Montoya with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.
The IIHF suspended Abdelkader for one game while tacking on an additional three games had he played for the Team USA in the 2015 World Championship.
Datsyuk scored again 1:08 later when he took a pass from Zetterberg, cut in on Montoya and slid a backhand shot through Montoya’s pads. Defensively, the Florida Panthers are allowing 2.2 goals per game and are killing 83.3 percent of their power play chances. And I don’t know what long-term means but we’ve got a good homestand here, let’s see if they can feed off each other that way.
NOTES: Detroit D Mike Green (groin) was scratched….
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In the second period the Isles already looked defeated, but Green’s 5-on-3 power play goal made it 3-0 to really finish things.
