Game 5: Detroit vs Columbus

Columbus came into Detroit as the lone win less team in the NHL and left on Friday night as the lone win less team in the NHL. The play at even strength was pretty even, but the Red Wings separated themselves on the power play. Columbus didn't generate a single power play scoring chance that I tracked tonight while Detroit had three chances (more "opportunities" which either didn't get to the net, were from too far out to really be considered a "chance" or weren't able to even get a shot away.) and seemed to capitalize on many of their chances regardless of game state.

As always, big ups go to Vic Ferrari of Time On Ice fame and his wonderful script allowing me to present these numbers.

Period	Totals		EV		PP		5v3 PP		SH		5v3 SH
1	5	3	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	3	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	5	2	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	13	8	7	6	3	0	2	0	1	2	0	0

The Red Wings numbers are in red (hooray backround's with different colors!) and Columbus' are in blue. Detroit only out-chanced Columbus by one at even strength, 7-6 but held a 13-8 advantage for the game on the back of their three man-up chances -- two of them coming on the 5-on-3 that Nick Lidstrom eventually scored on.

Here are all the chances that I tracked for the game:

Team	Period	Time	Note	DET						Opponent
DET	1	19:30	Zetterberg slap shot on three-on-two	5	11	13	18	35	40	1	2	16	18	51	61	5v5
DET	1	18:29	Kronwall one-timer from Zetterberg	11	13	23	35	40	55	1	5	10	22	28	50	5v5
CBJ	1	13:26	Mayorov shot from the low slot	4	26	35	51	52	93	1	8	14	15	26	51	5v5
DET	1	10:57	GOAL: Franzen snap shot from mid-slot on PP	11	26	35	51	55	93	1	3	15	26	51		5v4
CBJ	1	9:41	Mackenzie wrister from slot	4	20	35	48	52	96	1	5	19	24	32	51	5v5
DET	1	7:34	Franzen wrister from high slot	23	26	35	51	55	93	1	14	16	18	51	61	5v5
CBJ	1	4:42	GOAL: Brassard rebound	8	13	23	35	55	93	1	5	10	16	18	61	5v5
DET	1	0:50	Bertuzzing one-timer from the slot on PP	26	35	44	51	55	93	1	3	24	50	51		5v4
DET	2	19:35	Zetterberg rebound attempt	5	13	18	35	40	96	1	5	16	18	51	61	5v5
DET	2	19:33	GOAL: Datsyuk rebound shot from the slot	5	13	18	35	40	96	1	5	16	18	51	61	5v5
DET	2	18:50	Lidstrom re-direct in the slot	4	20	35	48	52	96	1	10	14	19	24	32	5v5
CBJ	2	13:23	Brassard one-timer from Nash	5	11	13	18	35	40	1	10	16	18	51	61	5v5
CBJ	2	3:47	Dorsett re-direct in the slot	4	8	35	43	44	52	1	3	8	10	15	26	5v5
CBJ	2	0:14	Johansen wrister from mid slot	5	8	18	35	43	44	1	14	18	19	51	61	5v5
DET	3	19:29	Helm mini-breakaway	8	23	35	43	55		1	14	16	18	51	61	4v5
CBJ	3	18:18	GOAL: Johnson one-timer on PP	20	35	48	52	55		1	5	14	22	28	50	4v5
DET	3	13:19	Lidstrom one-timer on PP	5	13	35	40	55	96	1	14	18	26			5v3
DET	3	12:22	Filppula rebound on PP	5	35	40	51	55	96	1	3	26	50			5v3
DET	3	12:14	GOAL: Lidstrom slap shot	5	35	40	51	55	96	1	3	26	50	51		5v4
DET	3	9:13	Emmerton wrister from face off dot	4	20	35	48	52	96	1	8	10	14	19	32	5v5
CBJ	3	7:24	Vermette shot from the slot	20	23	35	48	55		1	14	22	28	50	51	4v5

The Red Wings individual chances are as follows:

#	Player	EV			PP			SH
4	J. KINDL	12:09	2	3	0:00	0	0	0:00	0	0
5	N. LIDSTROM	18:40	3	2	0:56	1	0	2:29	0	0
8	J. ABDELKADER	13:06	0	3	0:00	0	0	4:27	1	0
11	D. CLEARY	14:08	2	1	1:07	1	0	0:12	0	0
13	P. DATSYUK	16:50	4	2	0:53	0	0	0:07	0	0
18	I. WHITE	21:18	3	2	0:53	0	0	0:00	0	0
20	D. MILLER	6:28	2	1	0:00	0	0	3:10	0	2
23	B. STUART	15:22	2	1	0:00	0	0	4:01	1	1
26	J. HUDLER	10:41	1	1	2:14	2	0	0:00	0	0
35	J. HOWARD	47:07	7	6	3:10	3	0	7:42	1	2
40	H. ZETTERBERG	17:16	4	1	0:56	1	0	0:07	0	0
43	D. HELM	11:46	0	2	0:00	0	0	4:00	1	0
44	T. BERTUZZI	12:38	0	2	1:07	1	0	0:00	0	0
48	C. EMMERTON	5:54	2	1	0:00	0	0	3:21	0	2
51	V. FILPPULA	11:24	1	1	2:17	3	0	0:00	0	0
52	J. ERICSSON	11:47	2	3	0:00	0	0	3:41	0	1
55	N. KRONWALL	15:18	2	1	2:17	3	0	5:13	1	2
93	J. FRANZEN	12:10	1	2	2:14	2	0	0:00	0	0
96	T. HOLMSTROM	6:44	4	1	0:56	1	0	0:00	0	0

Top Even Strength Forward: Henrik Zetterberg, Tomas Holmstrom, +3
Bottom Even Strength Forward: Justin Abdelkader, -3
Top Even Strength Defenseman: Nick Lidstrom, +1
Bottom Even Strength Defenseman: Jonathan Ericsson, -1

Head to Head Chart
(Lineup's compiled from Vic Ferrari's shift chart for the game)

How to read the chart: The entire chart is from the Wings perspective. Any black number is a positive number, a red number is a negative. If there is a zero in the space, it means the player was even for whatever match-up you're looking at. If there is a blank space, the player was not on the ice with the other player in question.

• Radek Martinek was crushed by Darren Helm early in the game (Martinek's first shift, actually) and never returned. Because of this, Columbus seemed to rotate Fedor Tyutin with Aaron Johnson and Grant Clitsome.
• I found it interesting that the last of the four forward lines for Detroit to see the ice tonight was the Hudler-Filppula-Franzen line. 
• Clearly-Datsyuk-Zetterberg took advantage of Aaron Johnson's increased ice time with Johnson being a -3 overall against that line. The top Wings forward unit was positive against both of Columbus' top line. 
• Typical of any line Sami Pahlsson's ever been apart of in his entire existence on this earth, his opposition didn't do much of anything. Anyone Pahlsson went up against were negative in the scoring chance department. 
• Speaking of defense, Darren Helm subjectively had a good game. He comes out -1 here but while watching the game I kept making mental notes of Helm either having a good back-check or good stick-check or good body-check or being in the right place to shut off a passing lane. Just goes to show that scoring chance tracking is still missing nuances of the game.
• Per usual, Nick Lidstrom and Ian White really mitigated anything the Jackets' top line wanted to do all night. Yawn.
• The teams started at a quick pace combining for eight chances in the first period and five of those came in the first 10½ minutes of the game. Beyond that, though, it wasn't too frenetic of a game with prime time scoring chances.