Red Wing’s captain Nicklas Lidstrom said Monday before leaving for Phoenix that he doesn’t mind at all opening the playoffs on the road when Detroit takes on the Coyotes tomorrow night. The Red Wings are a fifth seed in the Western Conference post season lineup but they’re playing like a number-one with a 16-3-and-2 record since the Olympic break.

In the ECHL, the Kalamazoo Wings season came to an end last night in Pennsylvania with the K-Wings losing 3-to-2 in overtime at Reading the deciding fifth game of their first round playoff series