Despite their unremarkable lineup, the Detroit Red Wings’ “non-game-day” players defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins’ “mostly NHL’ers” team 2-1 on Tuesday night, affording the Wings a 3-1-and-1 record (despite two losses in Monday night’s “split squad” games).
The game was far from elegant, but the “B Team” committed itself to defensive play, Ville Husso was tremendous in stopping 43 of 44 shot against (though he did receive some help from a couple of goalposts), Amadeus Lombardi scored an elegant deke-and-dangle goal in the slot 2:48 into the 2nd, Nate Danielson scored a breakaway goal at 17:11 of the 3rd, and the Wings killed 5 Penguins power plays, all en route to that 2-1 victory.
The Wings open the 2024-2025 season against Pittsburgh on Thursday, October 10th, and I’m certain that Pittsburgh will remember this game going into the Wings’ home opener. The only question is whether the Wings’ “A Team” will be fully ready to put in the kind of blue-collar effort in checking the Penguins’ stars that earned them (with a lot of help from Husso) a hard-fought victory.
Anyway, the Red Wings’ press corps didn’t travel to Pittsburgh, so what we’re going to get tonight is a lot of summaries, and a few quips and quotes.
MLive’s Ansar Khan kept his recap short and sweet…
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