With a surprising lack of feistiness, it appears that those people were the only ones still holding on to that memory as the Red Wings seemed content to let this game play out like it was any other game.
The Red Wings entered this game with the memory of Jamie Benn’s hack to Larkin’s neck last season still lingering in the back of people’s minds. Columbus: C- Covid, Stars Make Detroit See Green Next time the Red Wings find themselves with a one-goal lead in the latter half of the third period, I fully expect coach Jeff Blashill to shout “firmly grasp it!” at the boys on the bench and on the ice.įinal Grade vs. Related: 3 Takeaways From Blue Jackets’ 5-3 Win Over Red Wings Then they added an empty-net goal with seconds left on the clock for good measure. Thomas Greiss was playing well, and three goals is typically enough to at least take the game to overtime. After Lucas Raymond scored his seventh goal of the season to make it 3-2, it immediately felt prudent of the Red Wings to lock it down and leave Columbus with little to work with. After going up 2-0 in the second period, the Red Wings yielded the lead by the end of the period and found themselves in a 2-2 tie entering the third period. In this game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Red Wings couldn’t firmly grasp their lead even if it was a butterfly net smashed through their hands. If that’s not clutch, I don’t know what is. With two goals that night, including the game-winner, Detroit’s top line center saw his season totals (at the time) raise to six goals, with half of them being game-winning goals.
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This was also the first time that the Canadiens had faced the Red Wings’ full lineup as Tyler Bertuzzi has been unable to cross the Canadian border due to, well, you know why.ĭespite that fact, it was actually Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin who powered his team to victory. After dropping both games that were played in Montreal, the Red Wings defended Little Caesars’ Arena with an overtime win, the final score reading 3-2. Red Wings Beat Canadiens on Larkin’s Two-Goal Performanceīelieve it or not, this was the Red Wings’ final meeting of the season with the Canadiens. Obviously they didn’t (and for those who may be worried, no such bet was placed.) From a silent power play to an overall anemic offense against a goalie playing in his first game, this is a game that undoubtedly frustrated the head coach just as much as it frustrated the fans across Hockeytown. If you had told me that both of these things were going to be true heading into this game, I would have bet an obscene amount of money that the Red Wings were going to win this game.
On the Red Wings’ side of things, not only were they facing a 26-year-old rookie in net, but they also managed to hold Alex Ovechkin without a shot on net – that was the first time “The Great Eight” was held without a shot since before the pandemic began. Eight years later, Fucale made his NHL debut with the Washington Capitals and made sure it was a night to remember by keeping the Red Wings off the board the entire game. Once upon a time, Zach Fucale was drafted in the second round of the 2013 draft by the Montreal Canadiens, and a lot of people scratched their heads because the Canadiens already had one of, if not the best goalie in the league in Carey Price, so it seemed like overkill to also draft such a highly-touted goaltending prospect. In some ways, this week was a bit of a microcosm of their entire season thus far…. Filip Hronek, Dylan Larkin (The Hockey Writers)Īs usual, we’ll begin this week’s post by looking back at what went right and what went wrong for the Red Wings this week.
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