Yardbarker: Dan Cleary

Power Play Observations

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:17:56 -0500

from Scott Cullen of TSN, The NHL season is far enough along to get a feel for how teams are distributing their power play minutes. In most cases, it’s obvious, or at least readily apparent, who is going to get that precious playing time, but here are some observations with regards to each team’s power play ice time. ATLANTA Despite little production, LW Vyacheslav Kozlov ranks third on the Thrashers with 3:57 of power play time. D Tobias Enstrom is the mainstay on the...

Cleary gets Canadian Olympic camp invite

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:01:00 -0500

Red Wings forward Dan Cleary is among the 46 players invited to Team Canada's orientation camp in August. Cleary Highlights On Thursday, Hockey Canada and ex...

Dan Cleary confirms he'll play Game 6

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:30:45 -0500

Pittsburgh -- Despite missing Monday's practice because of a "lower-body" injury, Red Wings forward Dan Cleary confirmed he will play Tuesday night in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Cleary comes up with another big goal

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:59:03 -0500

DETROIT--Dan Cleary has been scoring big goals at big times all postseason. His goal with 6:28 left in the first opened the scoring and got the Red Wings rolling toward their 5-0 Game Five victory Saturday night.

Another big Cleary goal gets the Wings started

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:20:21 -0500

DETROIT (AP) -- Dan Cleary has been scoring big goals at big times all postseason.His goal with ...

Notebook: Another big Cleary goal gets Wings started

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:52:04 -0500

DETROIT (AP) -Dan Cleary has been scoring big goals at big times all postseason.

Cleary moves to the front of Wings' success

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:44:00 -0500

DETROIT -- The Stanley Cup didn't make Dan Cleary a different man. But it just might have made him a different player. Last season, Cleary was in the background as Detroit bulled its way to the Stanley Cup. He scored just three points i...

Cleary Moves To Forefront For Red Wings

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:56:00 -0500

Now THAT Is How You Have Some Game 7s!!!

Fri, 15 May 2009 11:54:05 -0500

The NHL disappointed on Wednesday night. With the evening all too itself, the Washington Ovechkins and Pittsburgh Crosbys had their sudden-death duel to see who moves on and whose season ends. We all knew that it was going to be great theatre.

Until the Pens went up 5-0 before closing out the game 6-2.

That sucks. But all we had to do was wait one more night to get that satisfaction. The Red Wings beat the Anaheim Ducks in a Game 7 when a goal was scored with just over 3 minutes remaining. The Ducks had just scored two unanswered goals to tie the game and nearly put this game into overtime. But the Daniel Cleary goal ended all that talk.

But that wasn't the best of the night. The Carolina Hurricanes, who once held a 3-1 series lead over the Boston Bruins, scored a goal with just over a minute left in overtime to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals. What made this exciting was the way the final goal was scored. Just like everyone fears, a mistake made on a seemingly meaningless play allowed Scott Walker to poke in the game winner in front of a stunned Boston crowd.

So now we get a very interesting Final Four. The Cardiac Canes will take on the starry Penguins while the favored Red Wings take on their rival Blackhawks.

Let's hope both go seven!

BYE BYE DUCKS

Fri, 15 May 2009 07:26:07 -0500

If I read one more thing about Dan Cleary's goal being controversial, I'm going to flip out

Cleary's dream realized

Fri, 15 May 2009 02:00:00 -0500

As a kid, the Red Wings forward envisioned scoring the winning goal in a pivotal Game 7. So it wasn't exactly the way Dan Cleary envisioned it as a kid on skates, dreaming big dreams, picturing scoring the winning goal in a pivotal Game 7.

Cleary Sends Wings To Conference Finals

Thu, 14 May 2009 22:21:47 -0500

Dan Cleary gets the game winner in Game 7 for Detroit. The Red Wings advance to the Western Conference Finals to play another Original 6 team in the Chicago Blackhawks.
Enjoy...
((HT: FS Red Wings))

You can't spell "principle-less" without "Principe"

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:23:19 -0500

Allo all;I’m taking a few moments away from my busy day to comment on a few random notes from the sports world:What a Gene-ius.The above is an example of the type of pun Gene Principe would use on an Oilers broadcast. They don’t necessarily have to make sense (“The Oilers hope to… Xcel-erate their playoff hopes at Xcel Energy Center… next!”) or be funny (and I can say this with absolute certainty, Principe has never said anything funny). Gene uses his bes...

Week 15 Frozen Waiver Watch

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:23:47 -0500

One of FIO's weekly fantasy hockey columns, staff writer Rob Edwards clues you in on some possible fantasy free agents to lookout for in Week 15 - check to see if any of these guys are on your league's waiver wire.