Suddenly, the clash on Saturday between the Columbus Blu and Detroit Reed Winjal is more than just an outdoor game.
To surprise many when it was announced, and even on the eve of the season, the battle before more than 90,000 fans in the Ohio stadium have serious effects in the qualifiers.
When the clubs take the ice for the stadiums series, the Red Wings and Blue Jackets will occupy the qualifying positions at the eastern conference.
Given that the red wings and blue jackets are not far from natural competitors, and it hardly has any decisive history in the Stanley Cup-Detroit presented a four-game survey of their only meeting in 2009-you were unable to request a better scenario.
With the league in the last third of the normal season, Detroit and Columbus won 66 points in 59 games. The Red Wings keep the first place in the land cards, as it achieved another victory at the time of the organization. They also have two regulations/additional work, and the second tie.
But the blue jackets have a golden opportunity to make a huge statement in this battle for the inner path during the stalking of a decisive position.
Detroit may have won four consecutive meetings, including the first three of this season, but Columbus sent a message in the first half of the home and house group on Thursday.
Blue Jackets achieved an impressive victory 5-2 in Detroit, not only a 1-0 deficit, but was withdrawn a second period of four goals. The result was sufficient for the Red Wings Todd McLELLAN coach to summon his players, especially Captain Dylan Larkin, to perform Subpar.
By picking up a victory chain in Detroit in two games and got a third consecutive victory, Blue Jackets continues to write one of the best stories of the season. Between the terrible death of the star Johnny Godro before the training camp and the seating rash that affected the first half of the season, this could have been another disappointing campaign in Ohio, the capital.
Instead, the vulnerable are strongly suspended and pushed to capture four -year fate periods, unlike the Stanley Cup qualifiers.
“It was great,” Striker Kent Johnson said. “I am very proud of how this team is playing.”
When talking about the dry off, the red wings make a strong boost to finish their faintness. Detroit, who launched coach Derek Lalond and rented McLillan during the break-up break, has since then published a record 17-5-2 and missed the qualifiers in the past eight seasons.
These teams have been in the steps of Terid since Christmas, and they needed every last point.
The Eastern Conferences Restaurant race has become very narrow, with two perennial forces in New York Rangers and Boston Bruins not far from wild parking. If this is not enough, two of the other teams are on a mission to end long extensions without progressing to the second season of NHL.
There with Rangers and Bruins while recovering the calendar that he turns to March, the Senate members in Ottawa, who last time in the qualifiers in the spring of 2017, and Montreal Canadiens – who have not failed to advance in the last three seasons only since it ended in the Stanley 2021 Cup finals but they have finished in the bottom of the pieces throughout the pieces since that since that Then.
Outdoor games are usually related to fans in the stands. With the high qualifying hunt heating, it will be useful to keep a tab on how to run the next chapter in Buckeye.