Red Wings-Rangers quick take: Panarin’s hat trick powers Rangers to second consecutive win over Red Wings

The Detroit Red Wings battled the New York Rangers for the second time in four days on Thursday night, and the Red Wings probably want the Rangers to go away and not come back after this one.

Detroit surrendered an Artemi Panarin hat trick en route to a 5-2 loss that made Monday’s 4-1 loss to the same Rangers feel like a slap on the wrist by comparison.

The Rangers’ power play went 3-for-4, Cam Talbot surrendered 5 goals on 19 shots–and he was one of the Wings’ better performers…

And Detroit is now 1-and-3, having played one good game and three flat ones (at best) over the course of the first week of the schedule, and the winless Nashville Predators are on the docket for Monday (2 PM EDT start on Bally Sports Detroit).

The Red Wings and Rangers took to the ice at Little Caesars Arena just after 7 PM EDT…

And the Rangers lined up as follows…

While the Red Wings lined up with the following players:

The Red Wings and Rangers’ starters, lineups and scratches are as follows:

In the 1st period, Larkin and Zibanejad faced off and the Red Wings got marginal control of the puck, chipped and chased, and the Wings barely were called offside as DeBrincat brought the puck back into the zone by a few inches.

The Rangers’ first line attempted to chip and chase a couple of times, and Larkin, Kane and DeBrincat circled back and changed some 40 seconds into the game, with Rasmussen, Raymond and Compher affording Panarin some time and space to tip a puck just over Talbot;

Trocheck, Panarin and Lafreniere cycled with help from their defense, and Compher came back to help Seider and Chiarot clear the zone 1:28 into the 1st period…

Berggren, Copp and Tarasenko only earned a short shift before Veleno, Motte and Fischer were hemmed in for the majority of their shift, until Moritz Seider made a couple of moves to chip the puck out of danger…

The Red Wings were being held into their own zone by the Rangers’ heavy forecheck, but Detroit prevented the Rangers from generating a shot, and at 4:07, Patrick Kane fired a puck at the goal and Vincent Trocheck sat for tripping Dylan Larkin.

Detroit started the PP with a unit of Larkin, Raymond, DeBrincat, Kane and Gustafsson, and the unit was a little chaotic, but Raymond walked into a shot, Quick stopped a lateral shot from DeBrincat off his glove, and the Rangers cleared their zone;

Gustafsson centered the puck but Quick chipped the puck away off the defenseman’s rush;

Larkin broke in deep and was stifled wide;

And the Rangers took another penalty as Larkin was hooked with 42 seconds remaining on the first power play, affording Detroit a 5-on-3 power play at 5:25 of the 1st.

DeBrincat won the draw after Larkin was thrown out, and DeBrincat then missed an open-net chance…

The first PP unit continued, and K’Andre Miller was blocked off and Detroit attempted to race back up with a 2-on-1 of their own, but Trouba cut off Larkin…

The 1st unit remained on the ice for a lengthy period of time and they were just too fine to convert, ultimately being replaced with 45 seconds remaining in the PP.

Tarasenko, Compher, Seider, Copp and Berggren worked the second unit, and they flittered with possession for a short period of time, never really got set up, and Berggren jammed a pass to the slot that was attacked by three Red Wings–Copp, Compher and Rasmussen–but nobody was able to chip it into the net.

The power plays expired.

Sadly, when Lafreniere, Trocheck and Panarin took to the ice, Trocheck took a lateral pass to Panarin as Chiarot and Maatta got lost and Panarin fired a puck into a wide-open net past Talbot. Soft goal, 1-0 NYR at 8:30.

Panarin scored from Trocheck and Lafreniere at 8:30 to make it 1-0.

The Rangers then dominated the next minute-and-a-half of play, before the Larkin line returned to the ice and moved the puck into the offensive zone, where Chiarot helped first the Larkin line and then Copp, Compher and Berggren buzzing the Rangers’ zone.

Cam Talbot lost his stick trying to poke a puck away, and the Rangers managed to get a shot off on his blocker side before Detroit was able to push the puck into the other end of the rink.

The shots were 10-3 Detroit at the 11:30 mark of the 1st period, and Detroit just looked choppy and sloppy, if not a little flat.

Commercial breaks marred the middle of the period, but the Rangers’ first line came into the Detroit zone and Trouba blasted a shot through the traffic of Trocheck, which Talbot stopped;

New York managed to get the hang of rush-generating through the 11-13-minute marks of the first period, and Talbot had to make a couple of good stops on Chytil and Lafreniere…

The Red Wings at least steadied themselves as the Rangers pressed hard…

And Tyler Motte got shaken up on a hit with Mancini at 13:52 sans penalty, with Motte falling to the ice after bouncing his head off Mancini’s hip. It appeared that Motte was okay.

Mostly, the Red Wings were really struggling to generate clean looks on Quick.

At 14:28, DeBrincat was called for tripping Lafreniere, and the Rangers headed to their first power play.

On the power play, the Rangers started their superstar unit of Kreider, Zibanejad, Trocheck, Fox and Panarin, and Artemi Panarin ripped a lateral pass by Fox into the top of the net around Ben Chiarot and over Cam Talbot, who had no chance to stop the shot.

The Rangers led the Red Wings 2-0 at 15:39. Panarin from Fox and Trocheck, who won the faceoff.

The Red Wings attempted to recalibrate and regroup as the period wound down, with Kane, DeBrincat and Larkin working together with Edvinsson and Holl, but very little was heard on the rink other than the shaft of Quick’s goal stick clanking off the goalpost repeatedly as he reset and reset and reset.

New York was dominating on faceoffs, too, which was aggravating as all hell get out.

Compher couldn’t tuck in two pucks, one off the end boards and another via Seider’s elegant back-door pass, so that was the first period.

In the 2nd period, you would have hoped that the Red Wings would come out with more urgency and workmanlike patience…

Detroit opened the 2nd period with the Larkin line, and they won the opening faceoff, but the Rangers made sure to not only chip the puck down the ice, but Vincent Trocheck also took a piece out of Moritz Seider before Seider flicked the puck out of play.

Really, the Red Wings’ first chance came from a simple rush from Simon Edvinsson up the gut, which was gobbled up by Quick with ease.

The Ssecond line of Raymond, Compher and Rasmussen fared a little better, and as Michael Rasmussen kept the puck in at the blueline, Lucas Raymond and J.T. Compher played catch with lateral moves, Compher fed the puck to Seider in the slot, and Mr. Moritz fired the puck over Jonathan Quick to make it 2-1 at 1:27.

Seider from Compher and Raymond. 2-1 at 1:27 2nd.

The Rangers’ Cuylle and Kakko immediately pressured Talbot on the bump-up shift, but Detroit pushed right back, with Tarasenko generating a couple of scoring chances off the outside of the goalpost, and he worked with Berggren and Veleno on a reformed “fourth line.”

The Rangers’ “back half of the roster” did a really good job of pressuring the Red Wings’ “back half of the linenup,” and Detroit got caught running around a bit against the Rangers’ third and fourth lines.

Detroit settled things down a little bit as the Larkin line returned to the ice some 4:30 into the 2nd, and the Compher line did a good job of grinding out pucks down low, but the Rangers’ defense was also very good, and so the Wings had to be careful opposite Trocheck and Zibanejad’s lines.

As play progressed, a bad Simon Edvinsson turnover yielded a couple of big stops by Talbot on Zibanejad, Smith and Kreider;

At 7:59 of the 2nd period, Jonatan Berggren got called for grabbing Reilly Smith’s stick, and the Rangers nearly scored a couple of times on the delayed penalty, but their 6-on-5 advantages were negated by Cam Talbot’s sharp goaltending.

On the penalty kill, the Rangers brought out Panarin, Kerider, Zibanejad, Fox and Trocheck, they won the opening faceoff, and opposite Larkin, Compher, Seider and Chiarot, they cycled, cycled, cycled, Talbot made a good stop on Kreider…

And, sadly, the Rangers fed the puck back to the point, Panarin sent the puck toward the net and Trocheck tipped the puck under Talbot to make it 3-1 Rangers at 8:46 of the 2nd.

The 3-1 goal read Trocheck from Panarin and Fox at 8:46.

Worse, Gustafsson got called for high-sticking at 10:46, and the Rangers headed back to the power play.

On the power play, Detroit at least repelled the Rangers’ first foray, but their superstar unit yielded a hat trick goal for Artemi Panarin, who ripped a shot through Moritz Seider and just past Cam Talbot’s toe to make it 4-1 New York.

Panarin scored the 3-for-3 PPG from Fox and Trocheck, making it 4-1.

If the shit couldn’t hit the fan enough, Victor Mancini took a pass from Kakko and he chipped a loooooooong shot through Talbot’s blocker to make it 5-1.

At 12:20 of the 2nd period, the Rangers led 5-1. Mancini from Kakko.

Alex Lyon replaced Talbot, who had little chance on goals 2 through 5.

Detroit continued to play scatterbrained hockey for most of the next five minutes, and the Red Wings were called for a high stick at 14:04 of the 2nd as Christian Fischer got a Ranger with an inadvertent high stick, but the Rangers were called for a Kaapo Kakko hold.

On the 4-on-4, Raymond worked with Larkin as Edvinsson and Holl played defense together, and Zibanejad nearly connected with Smith, but he fired the pass a bit wide;

Dylan Larkin hit the goalpost himself from the blueline, but tried to deke through 3 players, and was stifled;

The 4-on-4 did not end with much of anything going for either team–and the Red Wings spent about 10 minutes not sending a puck on or through Quick…

So the 2nd period wound down, and Detroit seemed to be doing very little other than firing pucks wide and getting hit and getting hacked and getting out-played.

It’s not like the Wings gave up–their first two lines were still very good, but execution was just poor all around, and things were very, very quiet–except for boos–after the 2nd period of play.

In the 3rd period, the Red Wings went with DeBrincat, Larkin and Raymond to start the 3rd, with Edvinsson and Seider on defense, and Detroit did a nice job jabbing pucks on Quick at the end of their first shift, but the lifted weight from the Red Wings’ shoulders didn’t seem to convert into efficiency.

Compher worked with Rasmussen and Kane on the second line, and they surrendered a shot against as Alex Lyon made a good glove gobble…

Fischer, Motte and Veleno worked together on the 4th line, and Chiarot, skating with Maatta, caused a ruckus as Ben Chiarot and Sam Carrick were called for roughing and slashing, respectively, at 1:47 of the 3rd, yielding a 4-on-4.

On the 4-on-4, Detroit employed Larkin, Raymond, Seider and Edvinsson;

Compher and Kane worked with Maaatta and Edvinsson as Trocheck tried to score a “Michigan” goal;

Ultimately, the defensive pairings were kind of messy, so it was hard to figure out who was with whom.

Chiarot worked with Holl after the 4-on-4 expired, which yields Edvinsson-Seider and Maatta-Gustafsson.

At 7:01, Kaapo Kakko was called for a trip, and Detroit went to its fourth power play.

On the power play, the Rangers won the opening faceoff and dumped it down the ice;

Gustafsson and Kane and DeBrincat worked the puck deep on the “Datsyuk Drop,” DeBrincat and Kane tried to feed the puck laterally and could not, working the umbrella, Kane, Gustafsson and Raymond worked the formation with DeBrincat net-front and Larkin in the “bumper”;

On the second unit, Seider was the D-man, with Tarasenko, Compher, Berggren and Rasmussen the forwards.

Seider did get a shot through traffic with Rasmussen as the screen, but Quick made an astute stop.

Other than that, the power play expired without much of anything happening. Kaapo Kakko came out of the box and charged into the Wings’ zone, where K’Andre Miller was stopped by Lyon with 10:44 left in the 3rd.

Ultimately, the line of Tarasenko, Copp and Berggren generated a little bit of offense, but very little went well otherwise.

The Red Wings at least looked like there was no pressure on their shoulders as they hit the 12-minute mark, and there was that.

With about 7:00 left, Alex Lyon had to make a big stop on Chytil after Lyon lost his stick, and some scrums ensued, but nothing of consequence transpired.

Erik Gustafsson went off at 14:26 due to high-sticking, and the Rangers earned the opportunity to go 4-for-4 on the power play.

On the power play, Rangers started K’Andre Miller, Alexis Lafreniere, Reilly Smith, Filip Chytil and Kaapo Kakko, and they took a penalty 41 seconds in. Kaapo Kakko went at 15:08 for interference.

Some 4-on-4 time ensued, and Veleno, Motte, Edvinsson and Seider worked together, with Seider feeding Berggren coming off the bench for a lateral pass that did not quite work thanks to a Will Cuylle block.

Vladimir Tarasenko sent a shot wide and off a Ben Chiarot rush, J.T. Compher tucked in a 5-2 goal with 3:19 left in the 3rd.

The goal was Compher from Chiarot and Gustafsson at 16:41 of the 3rd. 5-2.

Quick had to make a blocker-glove stop off the post as Seider ripped a heavy shot from the point with 1:03 remaining in the 3rd period, but that was about it for the Red Wings.

Brayden Schneider went to the box for 25.9 seconds when he delayed the game by flipping the puck out of play, but that was the last highlight.

Statistics: Here are the Game Summary and Event Summary:

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George Malik

My name is George Malik, and I'm the Malik Report's editor/blogger/poster. I have been blogging about the Red Wings since 2006, and have worked with MLive and Kukla's Korner. Thank you for reading!

One thought on “Red Wings-Rangers quick take: Panarin’s hat trick powers Rangers to second consecutive win over Red Wings”

  1. Wings on a lot of trouble. This is on Yzerman and his poor signings.

    Copp,
    Eric G,
    Motte,
    Chiarot,
    Tarasenko,
    Talbot

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