Thomas Vanek still recovering from a lower body injury and Jimmy Howard starting in net were the headliners as the Detroit Red Wings looked to extend their winning streak to 7 games on Saturday night against the Boston Bruins.
Boston entered without two of their top offensive performers, David Pastrnak (suspension) and David Backes (elbow surgery), but get their star netminder Tukka Rask back in action.
It was also Hockey Fights Cancer night at the Joe and the Wings wore some sweet purple warmup jerseys and Howard rocked a really cool purple mask.
1st Period
Steve Ott got the game started by trying to gut Zdeno Chara.