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After spending the 08-09 season 'banged up,' can Red Wings forward Tomas Holmstrom regain his form?
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... , especially in the playoffs (when he played through a knee sprain that nearly required surgery), but he also missed a significant amount of regular season time with a sports hernia. As such, the Detroit Examiner's Mike Mouat's "scouting report" reviewing Holmstrom's 2008-2009 season notes that the Red Wings forward never really got into his comfort zone: July 11, Detroit Examiner : Holmstrom's season could be characterized as the season interrupted. He started the season hot with six goals in the first six games, before cooling off scoring just one goal in the next eleven ...
Aside from streaky goal-scoring, Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk has few flaws
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... skills he is the league's best defensive forward, and is capable of playing physical, especially in the playoffs. He is a streaky scorer and had 8 multiple-game goal scoring streaks, his longest streak was three games (five times), and on the other end of the spectrum he had a stretch of 10 games without a goal and two streaks of nine games. With the departure of Marian Hossa to the Chicago Blackhawks it is likely that Datsyuk will be reunited with Henrik Zetterberg and Tomas Holmstrom [ Links go to Mouat's other scouting reports--George ] on the top unit.
Dan Cleary and the Red Wings' 'second unit' need to step up offensively
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Thus far, the Detroit Examiner's Mike Mouat's scouting reports have covered the Red Wings' probable top line of Henrik Zetterberg , Pavel Datsyuk , and Tomas Holmstrom , as well as the top defensive pairing of Nicklas Lidstrom and Brian Rafalski . In moving on to the "second line" trio of Dan Cleary (today's subject), Johan Franzen, Valtteri Filppula, and #3 and 4 defensemen Niklas Kronwall and Brad Stuart, he begins a discussion of the Wings who will be counted upon the most to fill in the offensive voids created by the losses of Marian Hossa, ...
