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[YzerFan19]

The Red Wings' West Coast road trip continues tonight in San Jose.

The Sharks lead the Western Conference at 8-2-0, closely followed by Detroit at 7-1-2. San Jose is also perfect at home.

Backup goalie Ty Conklin gets the start for Detroit with Chris Osgood having gone last night in Anaheim. Conklin is 3-0 this season.

[YzerFan19]

Figure I'll get this out of the way now, I've got a bad feeling about tonight. Also expecting it to be a quiet night around here.

[YzerFan19]

I'm a little surprised that the Wings didn't opt to go with Meech instead of Lebda on the blueline tonight. A little extra energy.

[YzerFan19]

Conklin comes up huge on Thornton. Wings haven't had a chance like that yet.

[YzerFan19]

Conks with another one! Massive stop on Pavelski.

[Britishwingsfan]

That was one hell of a glove save by Conklin.

[YzerFan19]

I think the Wings will be happy with the result of that period. They played pretty poorly but are still tied 0-0.

And I like that it was a relatively fast period, between the West Coast games all week, my early-morning project launch on Tuesday and playing goal in tonight's soccer game, I'm absolutely exhausted. Need a short game, not another OT game.

[YzerFan19]

Hossa gets one through! Wings out in front!

[Britishwingsfan]

Argh, I missed the goal.

[YzerFan19]

It was a quick wrister from the right circle. Seemingly-innocent but real fast.

[YzerFan19]

Saw that coming as soon as Thornton went behind the net.

Rafalski blew his defensive coverage.

[Britishwingsfan]

Thanks. But I saw this one, unfortunately. And it's all tied up.

[YzerFan19]

Seriously? How the f*ck did that get in? And you're telling me the ref never lost sight of it?

[Britishwingsfan]

sh*t! McGinn with his first NHL goal.

[YzerFan19]

Again, left wide open in the front of the net. The defense looks like my soccer team's defense and we lost 17-3 tonight.

[Britishwingsfan]

Oh for f*ck's sake. Just left him in front of the net.

[Britishwingsfan]

I didn't expect them to survive that penalty kill. But somehow the did.

[YzerFan19]

And actually looked kind of good on it. Maybe it's a start but I'm thinking that unless they score one more before the end of the period I'm going to bed and skipping the third. We'll see.

[YzerFan19]

I guess I'll stick around a little longer. Not ready to quit just yet.

[Britishwingsfan]

I think I'll watch the first five minutes. If the wings score, I carry on watching. If the sharks score I'll go to bed, and obviously if there's no change after five minutes I'll go to bed.