Dominance Incarnate

What does it look like to be the better team? We can use this game as a prime example to show what Detroit is made of and why they've been so successful. Shots, check: 40-20, a clear-cut 2:1 ratio showing both offensive prowess and defensive cunning. Penalty Minutes, check: 2-16, another clear-cut example of how to maintain composure and let your maturity guide you to more opportunity. Goals, check: 5-1, you win games when you put the puck in the back of the net, and when you do it as often as Detroit does while taking less penalties and suppression shots and shot attempts at this rate, you'll win games. These are just a few examples of how to be dominant, take notes everyone else, this is how you do it.

Poor Control

When you play a team as good as Detroit, you need to maintain composure and keep your team out of the penalty box. This was a clinic on what not to do put on by the Scarecrows. When you give your opponent 16 penalty minutes to play with, you take opportunity from your team and give it away to what ifs and unfulfilled wishes. You put your team in a do or die situation, and the killer instinct on the Falcons part is going to leave you in the "die" category more often than not. I might be beating a dead horse here, but really, this was poor discipline and it directly contributed to how poorly the Scarecrows played this game. It could have at least been interesting, but they never gave themselves a chance.

On Another Level

You know your team is doing something right when you're leading the league by double digit points in the standings. Detroit appears to have gone into orbit at this point and there's very little anyone can do to bring them down. They've got the depth, they've got the scoring touch, they've got the defense, and the goaltending has held up remarkably. I'll go ahead and say it, if they don't win it all this year, there's something wrong and someone will need to feel real bad about how the team was managed. Realistically, the team could glide on it's own to a cup win rolling over every team as a bump on the road to glory. I'll hope I'm wrong for everyone else's sake, but reality is a hard pill to swallow. This team is the real deal, and they're coming for everyone's cup hopes.