When considering a seven-game series, the general consensus is: a series isn't a series until the road team wins a game.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a series.
After shooting themselves in the foot (the bullet being a terrible penalty-kill) in Game One, the Detroit Red Wings used a seven goal onslaught to earn a Game Two victory in Arizona on Friday night.
The Phoenix Coyotes proved to be as dangerous and determined as game one (and their entire season to date for that matter) suggested they were going to be.
They continued their physical attack, used their speed to generate offense, and showed not an ounce of awe and only a smidgen of respect for their high profile opponent.
They had designs on heading to Detroit up two games to none, however, after this game, they're likely to draw up a new plan.
The Coyotes were thought to have two things going for them heading into this series that might, just might yield them four wins and a trip to the second round: physicality and goal-tending.
However much this looked to be the case in Game One, the Red Wings all but rendered these things moot in Game Two.< ...
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