Know The Enemy – Devils vs. Detroit Red Wings
A few notes and stats to get you caught up on today’s opponent – Devils (16-29-3) at Red Wings (29-13-6):
- Game info: 7:30 p.m. start time at Joe Louis Arena.
- Martin Brodeur will get the start in goal.
- Colin White, who is out with a lower body injury, has an MRI and CAT scan that showed no structural damage.
- Nick Palmieri and Vladimir Zharkov practiced with the team.
- This is the Devils last game before the All-Star break.
- The Devils will try to earn a point in eight consecutive games and try for their first five game winning streak.
- This is the second of two meetings between the teams this season. The Devils lost the previous meeting.
2010-2011 Red Wings
| # | Pos | Player | GP | G | A | P | +/- | PIM | PP | SH | GW | S | S% |
| 40 | L | Henrik Zetterberg | 48 | 16 | 36 | 52 | 6 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 205 | 7.8 |
| 5 | D | Nicklas Lidstrom | 48 | 11 | 31 | 42 | -2 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 101 | 10.9 |
| 13 | C | Pavel Datsyuk | 33 | 12 | 27 | 39 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 76 | 15.8 |
| 93 | R | Johan Franzen | 47 | 20 | 15 | 35 | 3 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 142 | 14.1 |
| 28 | D | Brian Rafalski | 37 | 4 | 28 | 32 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 6.5 |
| 44 | R | Todd Bertuzzi | 48 | 8 | 21 | 29 | -3 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 91 | 8.8 |
| 51 | C | Valtteri Filppula | 45 | 11 | 18 | 29 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 71 | 15.5 |
| 11 | R | Danny Cleary | 35 | 16 | 10 | 26 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 103 | 15.5 |
| 55 | D | Niklas Kronwall | 48 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 2 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 78 | 10.3 |
| 96 | L | Tomas Holmstrom | 44 | 11 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 44 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 13.8 |
| 43 | C | Darren Helm | 48 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 88 | 5.7 |
| 26 | C | Jiri Hudler | 43 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -6 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 6.1 |
| 17 | R | Patrick Eaves | 40 | 13 | 4 | 17 | -1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 71 | 18.3 |
| 52 | D | Jonathan Ericsson | 40 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 7.0 |
| 23 | D | Brad Stuart | 41 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 5.7 |
| 20 | L | Drew Miller | 41 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 6.7 |
| 8 | L | Justin Abdelkader | 40 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 5.8 |
| 90 | C | Mike Modano | 20 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 4.9 |
| 33 | C | Kris Draper | 20 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 17.4 |
| 24 | D | Ruslan Salei | 47 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 0.0 |
| 4 | D | Jakub Kindl | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4.8 |
| 48 | C | Cory Emmerton | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33.3 |
| 39 | L | Jan Mursak | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9.1 |
| 21 | C | Tomas Tatar | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16.7 |
| 37 | D | Doug Janik | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.0 |
| # | Goalie | GPI | GS | Min | GAA | W | L | OT | SO | SA | GA | Sv% | G | A | PIM |
| 35 | Jimmy Howard | 36 | 36 | 2054 | 2.86 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1026 | 98 | .904 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 30 | Chris Osgood | 11 | 10 | 629 | 2.77 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 298 | 29 | .903 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 31 | Joey MacDonald | 5 | 2 | 237 | 2.53 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 103 | 10 | .903 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NEW JERSEY Devils vs. DETROIT Red Wings
All-Time regular season record vs Wings:
(W – L – T – OT L – SO L)
24 – 21 – 8 – 1 – 0
Goals for: 178 Goals against: 164
All-Time post season record vs Wings:
4 – 0
Goals for: 16 Goals against: 7
Home games vs Wings: 16 – 7 – 6 – 0 – 0
Road games vs Wings: 12 – 14 – 2 – 1 – 0
Last season: 1 – 0
Dec 5, 2009 @ NJ – New Jersey 4 – 3 Detroit (SO)
This season: 0 – 1
Saturday December 11th, 2010 – Detroit 4 – 1 NJ
Wednesday January 26th, 2011 – NJ at Detroit
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January 27th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
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