Game 1: Red Wings Beat the Ducks....and 2010 has begun!!!



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 Well, the Ducks drop the first game of the season to the Wings. OK there...I feel better. The good news? Yes there are some good news to this story; the first one being that all of the teams that lost the first game of the season also happen to be teams that are predicted to go to the post season this year by the talking puck heads media. SOOOO, it's going to be a good year!

Secondly, the Ducks still have the grit that was made famous in 2007. In fact, in today's game, Corey Perry and Dutsucks once again rekindled their love/hate relationship ever since Perry called him out on live television during a playoff game. It took Datsucks three years to respond and he did so in today's game:



I give Datsucks credit for dropping the gloves. I think this is foreshadowing for some exciting games in the future...say maybe in June?

Other unmentionables from today's game:

Sutton fractures a finger? Ugh, good. Get him off the ice.


Cam Fowler....keep your head up kid. On the job training is the best! Your doing a good job thus far.


Hiller....*shakes head* enough with the designer helmets....get your head in the game.


Some where, Scott Neidermayer is sitting in a chair watching today's game, and then looking at his Ducks jersey peeking out of his closet, with one eye brow up, and a smile on his face.


As is always the case in Detroit, the refs seemed to forget that the home team can be penalized.


Bobby Ryan received 4 minutes of penalties, Perry received 15 minutes, Getz got 4, Parros received 12, 5 minutes for Brookbank, and 2 minutes each for Mara and Sexton and Sutton for a total of 46 minutes.


Holmstrom, Zetterberg, Datsuck, and Salei recieved a total of 26 minutes.


So game 1 is in the books....time to look to game 2 and burn this page.