The Red Wings home winning streak comes to an end

The Oilers spoil the Red Wings 13 game win streak at home holding them short of tying their record.

The Red Wings started the game strong with a power-play goal by Henrik Zetterberg. This goal kept Zetterberg's point streak alive. He now has 14 goals and 27 points in his last 12 games. It seemed like the Red Wings were going to win easily because the goal occurred in the fourth minute. Later in the eighth minute on another power-play, Lidstrom took a shot from the right circle. It was then deflected by Tomas Holmstrom, who was screening the goalie, into the upper corner. The score was now 2-0 in favor of the Red Wings. Later in the third period, Ryan Smyth scored a power-play goal cleaning up his own rebound. The period ended with the score 2-1 with the Red Wings leading.

In the second period, Raffi Torres tied the game up in the twelfth minute with a shot from the bottom of the right circle. This was the first even strength goal scored in the entire game up to this point. The score remained the same until the fifteenth minute when Valtteri Filppula scored a goal. There was a mess in front of the net when the puck came loose and was put in by Filppula. The score was now 3-2 and remained that way until the end of the period.

The third period was fairly quiet with many scoring opportunities. The Oilers weren't pressured too much because they could play for the tie and then win it in overtime or a shootout because now every game was guaranteed a winner. And that's just what they did when Marty Reasoner scored in the eight minute after Hasek came out of net on an inopportune time. No goals were scored throughout the end of the period and throughout overtime.

It now came down to the shootout where each team chose three players to attempt to score a breakaway goal. Only one goal was scored and that was by Ryan Smyth who trickled it past Hasek.

Overall, the Red Wings played well even though they lost. They could of won it many times before overtime and the shootout if they only could have put away one of many scoring opportunities.

Hasek didn't seem to be in the right mind set because he was all over the place. He was caught behind the goal multiple times acting as a defender and lost his stick twice too. The Oilers third goal was scored after Hasek came out when he shouldn't have.

On other news, Niklas Kronwall put a hard hit on Edmonton right winger Joffrey Lupul who wasn't defenseless at the time. Lupul left the game with a concussion which infuriated the Oilers bench because they lost a player the same way the night before. This caused a physical game throughout the rest of the night. Also, the players and coaches were angry with the referee's who made a few "phantom" calls in the first period.

The Red Wings now have full control of the Western Conference being one full point ahead of Nashville. The Red Wings play Nashville tonight at 8:00pm.