Welcome back to Red Wings Wednesday Weekly! In this weekly column, we will take a look at the Red Wings’ most-recent week of play, identify any players and/or trends that stood out, and then look ahead and find out what the next week may have in store for the team from Hockeytown. As always, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section down below.
Filip Hronek, Dylan Larkin (The Hockey Writers)
What a week.
The Detroit Red Wings faced a who’s who of the league’s best since the last weekly notebook, and survived to tell the tale. The club played four games in seven days, and all four opponents from the week that was are postseason-bound, and have at least 100 points on the season.
Faced with such a daunting schedule, Detroit finished 2-2 on its weekly slate.
Believe it or not, this is the second-to-last edition of our weekly Red Wings notebook, but the competition doesn’t get any easier this upcoming week. Here’s what we learned over the past seven days:
Solid Wins Bookend Ugly Losses
4/14 at Carolina Hurricanes, 4-0 Win
Heading into the game against the powerhouse Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit had won just two of its previous 10 games, and on the road in Raleigh, things seemed to be set up for another rough night at the office.
The game, as it turned out, belonged to goalie Alex Nedeljkovic.
The 26-year-old recorded a 46-save shutout, instantly giving Red Wings fans everywhere something to feed good about after blanking his former team. It was Ned’s third shutout of the season, while Moritz Seider, Adam Erne and Filip Zadina scored for Detroit, which wrapped its season series 1-1-1 against Carolina.
Sure, the Red Wings were outshot 46-22, but without much to feel good about lately, Detroit gets the benefit of the doubt in this one.
Final Grade vs. Hurricanes: A+
4/16 at New York Rangers, 4-0 Loss
Any emotional high from the previous game’s shutout against the Hurricanes was quickly grounded in a 4-0 defeat against the New York Rangers two days later….
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