Red Wings-Jets wrap-up and overnight report: Finding their stride, perhaps for Earl?s sake

The Detroit Red Wings played nearly letter-perfect hockey in their 7-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets?Save the whole getting scored on on the first shift thing. For a team that was supposed to be exhausted after a late flight into Detroit, it took the Jets all of 35 seconds to score against Pavel Datsyuk?s line and the Lidstrom-White pairing, with a little help from a Bryan Little whiffleball that squeaked through Jimmy Howard?s legs, and the game was on.

Or so the Jets thought, as Kyle Wellwood told the Windsor Star?s Bob Duff:

?Obviously we wanted to have a great start, and we ended up getting the first goal, so we were pretty excited about ourselves,? Wellwood said. ?They really turned up their game, and we weren?t able to play at their level.?

After that, as WinnipegJets.com?s Eric Postma notes, the Wings? ruffled feathers (trust me, by next year at this time, we?ll all have run out of Wings-Jets flight and dogfight metaphors, so indulge me for a moment) shook the frost off and thrust a goal-scoring explosion down upon the Jets:

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