Whether you are are an NHL fan or a Detroit Red Wings fan, you have become accustomed to the type of style of play they have perfected over the last two decades:
Puck possession.
Detroit has always been a team that no matter where the shot is taken from, weak or hard, they put it on the net.
Another thing that Detroit has always been known for is their power play.
When you have such players like Nicklas Lidstrom quarterbacking the first unit, along with Brian Rafalski, Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom, as the opposing team you would want to stay out of the box as much as possible.
But so far this year it seems to be that if an opposing team wants to beat the Detroit Red Wings, it's best to go down a man because there is nothing to worry about giving up goals.
What is wrong with the power play?
First and foremost, no one ever likes to use injuries as an excuse, but the Red Wings are without their other sergeant on the blue line, Brian Rafalski.
Rafalski is still 3 weeks away from returning from arthroscopic knee surgery.
With Rafalski go ...
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Article written by Chris Minniti
Detroit Red Wings: Power Play Power Outage, Whats Wrong With The PP?
October 18th, 2010 by Chris Minniti Leave a reply »
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