Red Wings-Penguins super quick take: Wings surprise the Pens with competitive effort, big win

The Detroit Red Wings managed to get the Pittsburgh Penguins on an “off” night, and the result of a superb effort by the Wings and a not-so-superb effort by the Penguins was a 4-1 win for Detroit.

I’m quite ill, so I tried to watch the game as as spectator, and I can’t say that it made me any smarter or wiser to the means by which the game’s result is authored than I am when I’m nervously typing instead. Long story short, I think the rambly game recaps are coming back when my health does.

Here are the game’s goals…

Sidney Crosby opened the scoring only 38 seconds into the 1st, and it looked like it was going to be a long night for the Red Wings…

But Niklas Kronwall tied the game some 15 minutes later, on fine feeds from Larkin and Helm, tying the game at 1…

Frans Nielsen scored an elegant goal 14-and-a-half minutes into the 2nd, on a wise fake-the-shot-and-pass play from Martin Frk (and Joe Hicketts got his first NHL point on the goal), snapping the 1-1 tie…

41 seconds later, Luke Glendening of all people tipped a Nick Jensen blast home, giving the Wings a 3-1 lead…

In the 3rd period, 6:21 in, Darren Helm worked a passing play with Dylan Larkin and Joe Hicketts, making it 4-1…

But the Penguins made things interesting, pulling their goaltender with 4 minutes remaining, and Kris Letang blasted a slapper through a Patrik Hornqvist screen to make it 4-2 at 16:44/with 3:18 remaining…

GOAL! LETANG! Pittsburgh cuts Detroit’s lead to 4-2 with 3:16 left in the game. #LetsGoPens pic.twitter.com/PaaYb2WX6X

— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) March 28, 2018

 And Luke Glendening scored the empty-net marker to put the game away at 18:32/with 1:28 remaining in the 3rd.

 Statistics:

Here’s the Game Summary…

And the Event Summary:

The final shot attempts were 59-48 Pittsburgh on the Wings’ 26-24 shot advantage.