The Red Wings welcomed the high-flying Dallas Stars to the Joe for a Sunday matinee. Andreas Athanasiou made his NHL debut and Mike Green returned to the lineup after being sidelined with a shoulder injury.
After a little bit of confusion with lines and D-pairings before the start of the game, we got word that the fourth line of Miller-Glendening-Helm was starting against the Stars' top line of Benn-Seguin-Sharp. So nice of the Wings to warn us about our impending butt workout with all the clenching we were sure to do.
First Period:
The Wings didn't spend a lot of time in the Stars' zone to start, and shockingly, a lot of time they spent in their own zone was when Glendening's line was out against Seguin's.