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Zetterberg Lays Out Phaneuf

Posted Mar 12, 2009 10:51PM By Matt Saler (RSS feed)

Filed Under: Flames, Red Wings, NHL General

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Buried in Detroit's wild, exciting, disappointing, dominant, pathetic, frustrating and strange shootout loss to Calgary Thursday night was an unequivocal bright spot for Red Wings fans: Henrik Zetterberg's thundering center ice shoulder check on the Flames' Dion Phaneuf.

Zetterberg, not known for physical play, was no doubt looking to exact some revenge for Phaneuf's earlier hit on linemate Dan Cleary. Cleary had to leave the game for half a period with an ankle injury as a result of yet another example of the kind of numbskull play Phaneuf has made his trademark. Whether it was revenge or not, tt was good stuff in a game full of things for Wings fans to be depressed about. Video below:

Tags: Dion+Phaneuf, Henrik+Zetterberg

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-13-2009 @ 7:58AM

hugh g rection said...

thundering? That's a little strong...I dislike Dian as much as the next guy, but thundering? It was a good hit but everyone knows that Dion doesn't like to take a hit (after all he is named after a girl)- even more than most players don't like to take a hit and he rarely does anything too gritty unless it's a chance at a big hit.