Comment 1:
Detroit dominated the face offs this game winning 51/86 face offs for a 59% win rate compared to Vancouver's 35/86 for a 41% win rate. It wasn't just one person dominating for Detroit either on the dot all 3 of Detroit's centers had great win rates with Kalvins Zvejnieks going 17/29, Mikael Mlynarczyk 16/25 and Raino Kyllonen 14/25. On the Vancouver side Shaquille Derisraka was alright going 11/22 along with Rudy Mentz going 5/11 but Andy Kerr and Borromini Cannellini are where most of the teams struggles on the dot occurred with both going 8/19

Comment 2:
Although Detroit squeaked out the win in this game in a shootout and controlled the play for most of it they had a lot of undisciplined penalties which they need to clean up for future games so they can dominate the play more. In this game they have 2 hooking penalties, a holding penalty and a tripping penalty. Fortunately for the Falcons it did not have a large impact on the game as their penalty kill stepped up gong 4/4 on the night stuffing the Whalers who must regret not getting at least 1 goal on all their power plays to potentially avoid the shootout.

Comment 3:
The 2 stars of the game were clearly the respective goalies as they both had excellent games with Casimir Stevens saving 29/30 for a 0.967 save % and Cedric Robinson of Detroit with 22 stops out of 23 shots for a 0.957 save %. Backdoor Barnacle got third star honors for his game tieing assist, however one player who did not show up on the 3 stars or the score sheet but was a big force during this game was David Fantobens for Detroit. Fantobens was everything in this game peppering the goalie with shots for a game leading 6 shots along with 2 hits and a +1 finish.