The Detroit Red Wings didn’t receive lights-out goaltending from either Ty Conklin or Joey MacDonald at key points during their 5-4 shootout loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday evening, but the team in front of him was as porous as activated carbon, standing around and allowing Oilers players to get sticks on loose pucks unobstructed on all four goals—and Sam Ganger’s tip-in goal was the only one where you couldn’t throw a blanket over the number of Wings players crowding their own goaltender.
Hiven Wings coach Mike Babcock’s comments about Conklin, who gave up 3 goals on 9 first-period shots against, it sounds like Joey MacDonald will start when the Wings face the Coyotes on MondAY NIGHT"S nationally-televised affair, and after Fox Sports Detroit’s Art Regner and MLive’s Brendan Savage pressed the “concern” button pretty hard last night and this morning, respectively, FSD’s Darren Eliot (via RedWingsFeed) offers...
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