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Posted by: trevorthompson on Oct 19, 2009 at 08:55:32 PM

It was great to see Justin Abdelkader get his first regular season goal as a Red Wing. It came Saturday, October 17th at the Joe vs Colorado, with Darren Helm drawing an assist. Till that point all of Abdelkader's goals in the NHL came in the playoffs - and they were big ones - against the Penguins in last years Stanely Cup Finals.

However for Abdelkader, Helm and strapping young defenseman Jonathon Ericsson (who already has a couple of goals this season) this, their first full year in the NHL,  will be a challenge.

Head coach, Mike Babcock, made the point - and it's a good one - that these guys preformed well in the playoffs and everyone was touting their glory. He went on to say that the playoffs are a time when everybody

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Posted by: trevorthompson on Oct 4, 2009 at 07:38:07 PM

 

The pre-season wasn't kind to the Red Wings.  At one point they had lost 5 in a row, finishing with a 4-5 record before the puck dropped for real overseas on Friday afternoon.

When the real season started everyone expected this team to rise to the occasion and pull out at least one, if not two wins, against their Central Division rivals, the St. Louis Blues.

The team was headed to Sweden - homeland of Nicklas Lidstrom, Tomas Holmstrom, Henrik Zetterberg, Niklas Kronwall, Jonathan Ericsson, Johan Franzen, and Andres Lilja - and all the talk in Traverse City during training camp centered around the excitement the team felt about making this once-in-a-lifetime trip, and how they were all going to band together to win one

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