Spend More Time in Offensive Zone - Be more aggressive today. Get traffic in front of Corey Crawford and create multiple opportunities to score and win the game.

Get the Puck Quickly out of Defensive Zone - The defensemen need to get the puck to the forwards. They'll need a good first pass to get them on their way.

Get Solid Goalkeeping - Jimmy Howard played well in Game 1. He needs to be great again in Game 2 against this potent Hawks offense.

On May 18, 2002

Darren McCarty scores a hat trick against the Colorado Avalanche in the 5-3 win in Game 1 of the conference finals.

(Photo by Bill Smith/Getty Images)

After an exhausted Wings team fell to the Blackhawks in Wednesday's Game 1, the team flew back to Detroit looking to regroup. After three days off, they return to The Windy City rested and refocused, looking to split the series in Chicago.

Welcome to the Detroit Red Wings Game Day Blog, where you can get behind-the-scenes information, thoughts from players and staff, and up-to-date news on anything and everything Red Wings on game day.

You can watch today's 1:00 PM game on NBC, or CBC/RDS for our Canadian viewers, or tune in on 97.1 The Ticket.

Jimmy Howard stops Dave Bolland
Dave Bolland has a golden opportunity to break a 1-1 tie on the breakaway attempt, but Jimmy Howard is there to make the sprawling toe save.

Not much went right for the Wings in the series opener. A series of fabulous saves by Jimmy Howard could only hold up for so long on a night where the Blackhawks put up 43 shots.

Thanks for tuning in to our Game Day Blog...we'll see you for Game 2 Saturday.

Stars of the Game powered by Ram Trucks are...

1. Patrick Sharp (1 Goal, 2 Assists)

2. Marian Hossa (1 Goal)

3. Johnny Oduya (1 Goal)

Danny DeKeyser	Darren Helm	Drew Miller	Mikael Samuelsson
DeKeyser (Thumb)	Helm (Back)	Miller (Hand)	Samuelsson (Upper-Body Injury)
Jordin Tootoo	Ian White	Brian Lashoff
Tootoo (Healthy Scratch)	White (Healthy Scratch)	Lashoff (Healthy Scratch)

Henrik Zetterberg	Pavel Datsyuk	Justin Abdelkader
Johan Franzen	Valtteri Filppula	Daniel Cleary
Gustav Nyquist	Joakim Andersson	Damien Brunner
Todd Bertuzzi	Cory Emmerton	Patrick Eaves
Niklas Kronwall	Jonathan Ericsson
Kyle Quincey	Brendan Smith
Carlo Colaiacovo	Jakub Kindl
Jimmy Howard