Let’s get this over with.

First Period

Less than two minutes into the game Larkin drew a penalty to allow the Wings the man-advantage. But of course that went about as well as anyone expected, so no goal.

The game was overall very harmless and uneventful, to the point I was about to start writing about Nielsen being much improved this year over last year, but then Detroit realized Chicago needed a guy to score his first NHL goal, so Bernier gave up a big juicy rebound of a slapper and Pius Suter, fresh from the Swiss League, was in the right spot to scoop up the rebound and fling it past Bernier, 1-0 Hawks.