Red Wings-Coyotes Game 3 quick take: respectful play drives Coyotes to distraction

The Detroit Red Wings turned the home-ice tables on the Phoenix Coyotes by scoring two quick goals en route to a 4-2 victory over the Coyotes on Monday night/Tuesday morning Detroit time, and while the Wings lead the series 3-0, I?d argue that there?s quite a bit of room for improvement for Detroit going into Wednesday?s game.

The Wings found themselves making glaring defensive mistakes at times, getting caught flat-footed on too many occasions where Jimmy Howard had to make sensational, ten-bell saves, and while it?s wonderful that Howard?s clearly up to the challenge, the Wings have made his life a little too difficult. The penalty-kill remains a problematic issue, strange bounces on both goals against tonight included, and the Coyotes were able to, for the most part, shut the Datsyuk line down as the Wings continued to display sometimes inattentive efforts, sagging during the second half of the first period and around the 10-minute mark of the third period?

But the Wings? depth is giving the Coyotes fits?if Phoenix focuses on shutting one or two lines down, Detroit?s supplementary players like Valtteri Filppula can dent the back of the net with ease, the grinders and ?depth? guys like Ruslan Salei continue to contribute, and in addition to the fact that the Wings have solved Bryzgalov for the most part and are playing relatively dominant hockey at even strength, the biggest and most important part of the Wings? three wins thus far involves a simple word and a simple concept: RESPECT.

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