1st Intermission: Basically the perfect period. Physical play. Killed an early power play. Didn’t score on Thornton’s double minor, but broke up the Sharks’ momentum and got a chance to roll their lines. Two fantastic goals by Mikael Samuelsson. Nick Lidstrom covers a Hasek mistake.

2-0 lead for now, but it’s not done. Sixty full minutes, Wings fans. Let’s keep it up.

Gretzky tells a story about when he scored 2 gaols, Messier would grab his ear on the bench and admonish him to “keep sniffing” for that hat trick marker. Never satisfied, always hungry. Worked pretty well for Gretzky.

What can we learn from this? Keep sniffing, Samuelsson. Keep sniffing.