Yahoo Sports Red Wings Falter in 3-2 OT Loss to Bruins
On Tuesday night in Boston, the Detroit Red Wings didn't trail for 62 minutes and 15 seconds, and then, in an instant, they lost. A give and go from Pavel Zacha to David Pastrnak and back to Zacha left Detroit goaltender Ville Husso down and out, and Zacha's shot was true, ending a game the Red Wings led at 1-0 in the first period and 2-1 in the third. It wasn't a poor road performance from Detroit, but it was a night of cancelled joy and squandered opportunities.
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In the second period, the Red Wings appeared to take a 2-1 lead on the power play, via a high tip from Marco Kasper off a Jonatan Berggren feed. Instead, a Bruins challenge and lengthy ensuing review showed that Erik Gustafsson was centimeters offside as Berggren received the puck from Kasper to enter the zone. Berggren himself did well to keep himself onside in doing so, but it didn't matter. What should've been an uplifting moment of creativity from two emerging talents was rendered moot. That Gustafsson played no role in the non-goal made no difference to the ruling.
However, despite winding up on the wrong end of a narrow review, Detroit didn't deflate. Instead, driving play for the bulk of the remaining seven minutes and change of the second, and carrying that momentum into the third, when Lucas Raymond scored his second goal of the night and seventh in his last seven games just 79 seconds into the period.
Like his first, there was an element of 'right place, right time' to the goal, but Raymond also did well to earn his luck and take advantage. In both cases, the budding star winger operated from the sort of sound defensive positions Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde advocates—staying above and responsible rather than succumbing to the temptation of diving deep into the offensive zone. And in both cases, Raymond received the puck in a dangerous position and wasted no time rifling it past Joonas Korpisalo in the Bruin crease, a sign of a confident marksmen (for good reason, considering his form).
In addition to Raymond's starring performance, Ville Husso delivered the exact sort of steady effort Detroit needed from him with Alex Lyon and Cam Talbot both out injured. Husso made 32 saves on 35 shots in what was unquestionably his best performance to date of the 2024-25 season.
However, neither Raymond's offense nor Husso's solidity in net was enough to secure a victory for the Red Wings. Boston tied the game at the 9:32 mark of the third, when Justin Brazeau tipped a Mason Lohrei point shot past Husso on the power play. Then, after Dylan Larkin struck the post at the other end of the rink in the first minute of overtime, Zacha found the winner for the Bruins.
Coach Derek Lalonde spoke before Detroit traveled to Boston about his team's need to find "traction" after a "missed opportunity" against the Canucks at home on Sunday. Despite moments of absorbing pressure at the hands of the Bruin forecheck, the Red Wings played well enough to win Tuesday, but that qualitative assessment won't find its way to the standings. Instead, Detroit still seeks traction after another missed opportunity, falling to 10-12-3 and reinforcing the sense that even with the standings muddled in the East, the Red Wings place among the hierarchy is clear.
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