David Guralnick/Detroit News
They're winning with all sorts of bodies in all sorts of ways, tight game or blowout, good foe or bad, Joey or Jimmy. The Red Wings keep lining up and taking numbers, and where it stops, nobody knows.
If it stops here for Joey MacDonald, the accidental streak-saver, well, it's the ride of a lifetime. The Wings just won their 23rd consecutive home game, beating the nemesis Sharks, 3-2, Sunday to push their NHL record slightly past incredible, headed toward unfathomable.
They won with goals from role players Drew Miller and Darren Helm, with a few fisticuffs from Justin Abdelkader, and with a flurry of superb saves from a 32-year-old goalie who knows his way around North America's smaller rinks.
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