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Why Detroit Red Wings’ Alex Lyon is feeling in mood for holiday re-gifting
Red Wings on goaltending situation with Alex Lyon & Ville Husso
Detroit Red Wings Alex Lyon, Ville Husso & Derek Lalonde, Dec. 17, 2024 in Detroit.
Alex Lyon had a busy day: Practice, prepare to return to the Detroit Red Wings’ lineup – and a bit of holiday re-gifting.
The affable goaltender has been cleared from the lower-body injury that has sidelined him for three weeks. He and Ville Husso are both available for Wednesday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers (7 p.m., TNT), while Cam Talbot is day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
“Feeling good,” he said Tuesday. “Feeling happy, healthy and just excited to get back in and contribute. It’s always a good feeling.”
The Wings (12-14-4) are looking to win consecutive games for the first time since Thanksgiving. They spent quite a bit of time in practice working on special teams, as the power play – still a respectable 24.4%, in the top 10 in the NHL – has gone quiet the last four games. Marco Kasper, back in good health after missing the last game because of illness, was on Dylan Larkin’s unit.
To keep or not to keep
Throughout their struggles this season, goaltending has been the Wings’ most dependable asset. When Lyon, who hasn’t played since Nov. 25, and Talbot both were sidelined earlier this month, Husso handled the majority of the workload. Carrying three goaltenders can have its challenges – making sure all get enough reps in practice; fitting them under the 23-man limit – but it’s been very useful.
“We’ve been able to turn to an experienced goalie that we believe in all year,” coach Derek Lalonde said. “Over two years, good on our management team, thinking outside the box with roster management and being able to carry three goalies.
“It salvaged our season and got us on the brink of the playoffs last year, and it’s kept us in the battle this year. We’ve had four goalies win games for us this year and we’re not even at Christmas.”
Husso is coming off his first NHL win in more than a year, helping the Wings defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs Dec. 14. The Wings called him up Nov. 27 on an emergency basis, so when Talbot is also healthy, they will have to decide whether to carry three or send Husso back to Grand Rapids Griffins.
He knows that can happen, but “I just go day by day,” Husso said. “I don’t think there is any other way. Do my job and I don’t think about that other stuff.
“It’s been nice to be home and hopefully I’ll get to spend Christmas with the family. That will be good.”
Lalonde: Not yet
Lalonde deferred speculation, saying, “let’s get to three healthy goalies first,” and complemented Husso on his professionalism.
“Ville is just a genuinely really good person, very well liked in the room,” Lalonde said. “He’s a guy you root for. He’s worked hard. A lot of the adversity has come through injury, he’s had some lower body injuries he’s dealt with. He keeps working at it.”
Lyon is ready to get back to work.
“Being healthy is directly tied to your livelihood,” he said. “It’s an important factor and important to stay healthy, but at the same time, things happen.”
Things happen, and holidays happen, and it’s good to have gifts on hand. Lyon had some trinkets in his locker that were from past giveaways at games: A Mike Vernon mini goalie mask replica and a mini replica of Dominik Hasek’s stick.
“The Red Wings gave to me in the form of these presents and I just thought I’d give them right back,” Lyon said, smiling. “It’s the holiday spirit giving.”
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Detroit, MI
Cold start to workweek: Flurries, wind chills fall to single digits, dry midweek ahead for Metro Detroit
4Warn Weather – Brutally cold with a few flakes possible Monday night, remaining cold and cloudy for Veterans Day on Tuesday.
Monday night: Decreasing clouds, partly cloudy skies. Low: 23.
Tuesday: Mostly cloudy skies. Continued cold. High: 38.
Tuesday night: Partly cloudy skies. Another cold overnight. Low: 30.
Wednesday: Mostly cloudy skies. High: 46.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy skies. Low: 30.
Teasable elements:
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Wind chills into the single digits and teens out the door on Tuesday Morning
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Well below average temperatures for the next few days
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More clouds than sunshine for Tuesday, more sunshine moves in mid-week
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Dry forecast for most of next week, with warming temperatures by the end of the week
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Next rain chances move in for the upcoming weekend
We’ve seen some snow showers, some clouds, and some sunshine in most locations to start the week, after the snow showers to end the weekend on Sunday.
And we’ve got a few flakes in the forecast for Tuesday before we put winter weather “on pause” for a little while!
As we work through the overnight hours tonight, we will keep some cloud cover in the forecast as we are still dealing with that northwest flow, with snow showers in our Northeastern Communities and a few flurries elsewhere.
Overnight lows dropping into the lower 20s, and expect wind chills into the teens and potentially single digits outside the metro.
We will keep some cloud cover in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, with warmer temperatures starting to move into the region.
High temperatures remaining in the 30s by Tuesday, then into the upper 40s by Wednesday.
Expect a few flurries possible on Tuesday as the northwest flow continues. Gusty winds are expected, gusting upwards of 20-25 MPH on Tuesday as well.
The drier weather continues, looking ahead into the end of next week and the start of next weekend.
We will keep some sunshine and clouds in the forecast for Thursday and into Friday.
High temperatures continue to warm up for everyone. We’re expecting high temperatures into the upper 40s on Thursday, then back into the 50s by Friday.
We will bring more cloud cover into the forecast by the start of next weekend, on Saturday, and high temperatures will continue to warm.
Expect high temperatures into the mid-50s by Saturday afternoon.
Our next chance of rain moves into the region late Saturday night and into the end of the weekend on Sunday.
High temperatures in the mid to upper 50s will fall into the upper 40s after that cold front moves through the region late Sunday.
Mostly cloudy skies are expected for the start of next week on Monday.
Find the latest forecast from the 4Warn Weather team here
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Second-half surge lifts Detroit Pistons to 6th straight win
PHILADELPHIA — At halftime of Sunday night’s game at Xfinity Mobile Arena, it looked like the Detroit Pistons would see their five-game winning streak come to a screeching halt.
The hometown Philadelphia 76ers were moving the basketball, hitting shots and playing with a verve that the Pistons — despite being the rested team, having not played the night before, as Philadelphia did — didn’t seem capable of matching.
But then the second half started. And behind a spectacular performance from Cade Cunningham — who scored 24 of his 26 points after the break, including a spectacular dunk over former Piston Andre Drummond in the game’s closing minutes — Detroit secured a 111-108 victory, givingthe franchise its best start to a season in a generation.
“It’s not hard to believe,” Cunningham said when asked whether he was surprised by Detroit’s 8-2 start only two years after its 14-68 season. “Even then, I couldn’t believe that we were in such a low.
“So to be here now, I feel like we’re where we’re supposed to be. We got a lot of guys that have always been big-time players, have always found ways to win at every level, and the NBA is tough. So we got here and we had to figure it out together. We were young, but now we’re getting our foot in and we’re figuring it out.”
It’s a lot easier to figure things out when your team is led by a player like Cunningham, who has backed up last season’s breakout performance — when he made his first All-Star and All-NBA appearances of his career and led Detroit to the playoffs — by leading the league in assists and putting up one impressive performance after another in the early going.
Cunningham had entered Sunday’s game having scored at least 30 points in three consecutive games and in four of Detroit’s last five. But after playing well below his standards in that first half — with just two points on 1-for-9 shooting from the field — he completely flipped things around, allowing Detroit to post its best record through 10 games since starting the 2005-06 season with a 9-1 record.
Cunningham’s 17 points in the third quarter immediately pulled Detroit back into the game after it trailed by as many as 13. And that was before his spectacular dunk over Drummond with just under two minutes to go helped in denying a late push by Tyrese Maxey (32 points, seven assists) and the 76ers (6-4).
“Man, he could get one of those every game,” Jalen Duren(21 points, 16 rebounds) said with a smile. “I don’t know why he doesn’t. But I love it. I mean, I’ve seen a lot of that. His game speaks for itself.
“I continue to say [he’s the] best guard in the NBA, so he going to make plays like that.”
Duren has also taken a massive step forward this season, with Sunday’s game marking the sixth time he has eclipsed 20 points this season. His 19.4 points per game this season dwarfs his averages from last season (11.8) and 2023-24 (13.8).
He has also played a significant role in Detroit’s third-ranked defense through 10 games, and he contributed another two steals and two blocks Sunday while continuing to be one of the league’s most imposing rebounders.
“He’s been dominant,” Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. “The way he helps us protect the rim, the job he does on the boards, the threat that he is in the pick-and-roll and in the pocket … he’s a guy that can connect our group, too. He’s another guy who can facilitate and playmake, and then he’s an elite communicator, which has been a huge growth for him defensively. He’s talking to guys, always in the right spot, so I thought he was great again tonight.”
Cunningham and Duren also share the connection of having lived through that dismal 14-68 season two years ago, when it seemed like the Pistons were miles away from being relevant in the Eastern Conference. But as the league wakes up Monday morning, it will be Detroit looking down at the rest of the conference, and looking up at only one team — the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder — in the league standings.
“I think sky’s the limit,” Duren said when asked about his expectations. “I think we keep following J.B., keep working hard, keep defending, keep playing together … I think sky’s the limit at that point.”
For his part, Cunningham said that even when things were at their lowest ebb two seasons ago, his belief in himself kept him pushing him forward. It is that same belief that won’t allow him to be satisfied with only a good start to the season.
“Yeah, I mean, more than anything, my faith in myself, knowing that I was going to be successful in the NBA, knowing that I was going to do everything it took to be successful,” he said. “And I got lucky and fell into a franchise in the city that has the same mentality that I felt like it took for me to take the next step.
“So it has been a hell of a ride, man. It’s been a lot of ups and downs. It’s still early, though … I’m not above myself because we’re 8-2. I think this [success] is something that we all want, but we want something bigger than this. So we just want to keep our heads down and keep working.”br/]
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5 things to watch: Lions at Commanders
The Detroit Lions are looking to get back to their winning ways today in Washington against the Commanders. Detroit has won their last 12 games coming off a loss and haven’t dropped back-to-back contests since October of 2022.
Here are five things to watch out for in today’s matchup:
Quarterback Jared Goff was sacked a season-high five times last week in a loss to Minnesota and he was hit 11 times total as the Vikings were credited with 26 total pressures in that contest.
Minnesota took advantage of some protection breakdowns and mismatches and to their credit schemed up some nice pressure packages Detroit didn’t handle well. Detroit rushed for just 65 yards and Minnesota also racked up 10 tackles for loss.
“Sunday wasn’t up to our standard at all,” All-Pro right tackle Penei Sewell said this week “One of our worst performances and we just have to be better in terms of throughout the week communications-wise and game-plan-wise and we have to come together at the end of the day and be on the same page.”
Washington ranks 12th in the NFL with 22 sacks but their leading sacker, Dorance Armstrong Jr. (5.5), was recently placed on injured reserve. Edge rusher Jacob Martin has 3.5 sacks on the year.
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