The Detroit Red Wings Will Win Against the Minnesota Wild Tonight

Alright, I don't know about you, but I'm getting pretty tired of reading (and writing) the same old game preview and prediction pieces.

Yes, "the Wings need to play desperate", "they need to be hungry", "this is a big one", "they're fighting for their playoff lives", blah, blah, blah...

Really, what more can be said at this point?

Maybe it's the Wings' season to date that has made me a bit punchy, but I thought lightening things up a bit and getting just a little stupid might make my knuckles a little less white as I'm watching tonight's game against the Minnesota Wild. Maybe it'll do the same for you.

So, based on nothing more than wild guessing and uneducated analysis, I'm not only going to gaze into this crystal ball and predict the winner of tonight's game, I'll even give you some pre-analysis, the score, and game-winning goal-scorer!

Yeah, like I said, let's get stupid.

It's one hour before the puck drops, here's what I see:

Red Wings 4, Wild 3 (OT)

The Wings come out tentative, the Wild too, but an early miscue gives the Wild the 1-0 lead.

The second period starts better for the Wings: they tie it up, then go ahead 2-1.

In the third period, the Wings buckle down and get a power-play goal to make it 3-1.

Then things open up a bit. The Wild score, it's 3-2. Then they tie it up, it's 3-3!

We head to OT, not a strong suit of the Wings this year. But we pull through and get the win when Johan Franzen puts one past Niklas Backstrom.

This is just one possible outcome. Tell me what you think!