Red Wings-Jets quick take: Deviled Egg-laying made easy

The 4-4-and-1 Detroit Red Wings hoped to wrap up the first 10 games of their schedule on a high note, while facing an 8-and-1 Winnipeg Jets team which wanted to rebound from its only loss of the regular season.

Detroit came into the game on an 0-1-and-1 winless streak, and the team had to recall Austin Watson due to a “roster emergency” (Vladimir Tarasenko was ill).

On Wednesday evening, Detroit laid an egg, plain and simple. The Wings surrendered a 3-0 lead to Winnipeg’s Kyle Connor, who registered a goal and 2 assists against his hometown team in the 1st period alone, Detroit rallied thanks to a 2-for-2 power play to make it 3-2 going into the 3rd…

And the Wings got run over, losing 6-2 to Winnipeg, ending their first 10 games at 4-5-and-1.

That’s not a terrible record, but it’s not sterling, either, and not acceptable. Detroit’s going to have to get up for Buffalo and run them over this Saturday night, and lean into their 13-game November schedule.

The Red Wings and Jets hit the ice at Little Caesars Arena just after 7 PM EDT…

The starters and lineups were as follows:

In the 1st period, Detroit started checking line vs. checking line, and Marco Kasper lost the opening draw to Adam Lowry, the Jets bounced the puck back to the point and Mason Appleton fired a shot wide whose rebound was blocked by Kasper, and Lowry ripped a shot over the net, affording Detroit a change some 27 seconds in.

Winnipeg was playing aggressive, 2-1-2 hockey from the get-go, and Raymond, Larkin and DeBrinat worked very hard to clear the offensive zone opposite Vilardi, Scheifele and Connor;

The Kane-Compher-Copp line came on the ice and the trio dangled deep before Kane fired a pass over Ben Chiarot, working with Petry, and out to center ice.

Kane generated a second scoring chance when he fed Copp in the slot, but Copp fired it wide once, then twice, and the Rasmussen-Veleno-Watson line came out to complete the four-line rotation some 3:30 into the game.

Sadly, the Jets stole a neutral zone puck, and Kyle Connor and Gabe Vilardi raced in on a 2-on-1 vs. Johansson, and Connor found Vilardi for the 1-0 goal at 2:48.

Vilardi made it 1-0 from Connor at 2:48.

Three days after their last game, the Red Wings looked a little slow off the draw against an amazingly fast Winnipeg team, and off a lost Larkin faceoff, Neal Pionk raced toward the net off a faceoff loss, and Pionk ripped the rebound off Lyon into the goal at 4:02 to make it 2-0.

Pionk scored the 2-0 goal at 4:02 from Connor and Scheifele, who won the faceoff.

A few minutes later, Larkin won an offensive zone faceoff to Raymond, they cycled for DeBrincat, but Perfetti blocked the pass, and Namestnikov helped the Jets chip and chase. Winnipeg regrouped once, then twice at center ice, Petry and Chiarot fanned poking and hoping at passes, and the Jets cycled well, Petry butt-checked Samberg, and the Jets came right back in, with Iafallo and Barron working down low.

Johansson and Petry helped Copp break away for a rush, but the Jets regrouped again and Schiefele fired a shot in on Lyon that he had to stop and let go wide.

The Fischer-Veleno-Watson line generated a good scoring chance–perhaps the best on the young night–but Watson’s one-time rebound blast was blocked off;

Then Rasmussen, Berggren and Kasper spent most of the next shift in their zone;

Logan Stanley sent a shot over the net on a drop pass from Namestnikov;

The Kasper line persisted, however, with Chiarot getting a shot off and a rebound chance cycled deep…

But the Jets cleared and the fans growled.

By the first TV timeout at 10:12, the Jets were out-shooting Detroit 5-3, but the shot attempts were 11-11.

The next shift for Connor and Scheifele yielded Edvinsson getting too cute off a pass from Seider once, then Edvinsson missing a shot on Hellebuyck due to a poke check off a lovely drop from Raymond;

The problem for the Red Wings was simple: Winnipeg was winning faceoffs (they were 8-and-2 at the second TV timeout), and while the Wings were generating some scoring chances that fumbled wide, when the Jets made things happen, they were efficient.

Kane, Compher and Copp tried very hard to set up some 12:45 in, but the Jets’ checking in their own end was tremendous, and there was one cheer in the game:

Austin Watson running Samberg over, unleashing a couple big hits by the Wings and Jets over the course of Watson’s shift.

On the next Connor-Scheifele shift, Edvinsson and Seider helped Raymond, Larkin and DeBrincat at least generate a shot attempt on Hellebuyck with 5:41 left in the 1st.

The shot attempts were close, the hits were in the Wings’ favor, many stats looked even–save the Jets’ 8-2 faceoff record–but the Jets’ chances went into the back of the Wings’ net.

Adam Lowry, Nino Niederreiter and the Jets’ fourth line attacked the Wings’ net with 4:49 gone in the 1st, and Petry had to extricate Niederreiter from Alex Lyon’s face…

On the next shift, Cole Perfetti hit the crossbar;

Johansson, Holl, Kane, Copp and Compher at least got some zone time, but Winnipeg went the other way, Gabe Vilardi fed Kyle Connor as he blazed behind Moritz Seider, and it was 3-0 in a hurry.

Connor scored from Vilardi at 15:44 of the 1st period. Connor had 3 points.

Winnipeg just kept going as the fans began to buzz with dissatisfaction, and the Wings were just playing too fast and loose–emphasis on loose–while the Jets were precise and deadly.

Connor and Vilardi and Scheifele gave Seider and Edvinsson another rough shift with 1:30 left in the 3rd, with Kasper, Rasmussen and Berggren seeing heavy work…

And Moritz Seider was tripped with 1:21 remaining in the 1st period by Schiefele, and Detroit headed to the power play.

DeBrincat had to take a faceoff after Larkin was thrown out of the draw, and he lost it, but the Jets chipped it into the netting;

The Jets won the next faceoff, however, and made an easy clear;

DeBrincat, Kane, Larkin, Raymond and Seider generated some zone time and shots that went wide, but, mostly, the Wings looked like they were having a hard time calming down and setting up.

They needed an intermission, and the fans agreed, booing the team off the ice.

In the 2nd period, Detroit began with 39 seconds of PP time, and the Wings needed to stop the bleeding in terms of goals against.

Larkin, Raymond, DeBrincat, Kane and Seider started the PP unit, Seider dropped to Kane after the Wings took control of the puck, Raymond and Seider played catch, Larkin dropped to Seider, Larkin dropped to Seider, Kane fired a shot wide, tipped, Raymond fed Kane for a shot that was blocked, and that was the power play, with an icing on Winnipeg to end the soiree.

As Mickey Redmond noted, the Wings had a hard time getting shots (and passes) through the Jets, and Chiarot and Petry at least generated a scoring chance on the next shift;

Copp and Berggren worked on an interim line with Compher as Kane had played on the power play to open the period, and they were worked back into their own zone, Detroit tried to change, Ehlers found Connor, Lyon made a stop, Scheifele was stopped as well, and Lyon had to gobble up a puck from Chiarot to give the tired Wings a line change.

Two-and-a-half minutes in, Holl and Johansson were struggling to cycle to Fischer, Kasper and Rasmussen, and “knob king” Lyon had to make a stop with his stick shaft vs. the Perfetti line.

Winnipeg just kept grinding out the Wings in their own end, and Detroit only seemed to have so much push-back.

Scheifele sat on the puck for a bit to help oppose a stick-free Seider as the Connor line menaced again, this time opposite the Larkin line, and Edvinsson raced in and fired a heavy shot that was blocked by Josh Morrissey some 3:51 into the 2nd.

Then the Copp-Compher-Kane line was held into its own zone for a bit, the Jets regrouped at center, and chipped and chased for an icing at 4:24.

Winnipeg kept winning faceoffs, however, so it was too easy for them to get out of jams in their own end.

Austin Watson at least found Veleno in front, but he was blocked off by Cole Perfetti…

Perfetti almost found Ehlers for a 4-0 goal before things were all said and done against the Veleno line, and that was a dangerous thing.

Seider and Edvinsson were mistake-prone on the next shift, and it afforded Scheifele, Connor and Vilardi an easy time racing around the Wings’ end until DeBrincat and Raymond worked the puck the other way, with Raymond dropping the puck to no one in front.

Detroit just kept struggling to generate any real scoring chances against a Jets team that was feeling their oats, and whether it was time to panic or time to commit Seppuku seemed to depend on where you were on the online spectrum.

Maybe the Wings’ best chance of the 2nd involved Rasmussen blowing a Kasper pass wide of the net;

Lyon then made a big back-door stop on Perfetti–pardon, it was the goalpost–against another lost draw in the defensive zone…

And Detroit earned a power play as Samberg bumped a Wing and sat at 7:07 of the 2nd period, and DYLAN LARKIN SCORED A ONE-TIMER FROM HIS KNEE TO GIVE THE WINGS SOME LIFE at 7:13.

Dylan Larkin scored the PPG from Seider and Raymond at 7:13 to make it 3-1 Winnipeg.

Scott Arniel was less than delighted when he saw the penalty to Samberg, and that’s understandable, but the Wings needed a shot in the arm.

Larkin also raced wide on DeMelo and placed the puck on Hellebuyck’s shoulder–but not past it–as the Jets tried to push back on the bump-up shift.

Kane also raced up the gut and flubbed a drop pass, and then took a Compher pass and blew the slapper wide;

Winnipeg got a deep 3-on-1 as the Kane line exited the zone early, but Detroit held its own some 10:05 into the 2nd, and Lyon made a couple of solid stops as Lowry, Niederreiter, Stanley and company cycled away.

When play resumed after the TV timeout, Rasmussen generated a fine steal to Berggren, and Berggren ripped a heavy shot wide of the net;

Kasper cycled, Holl pinched, Kasper and Rasmussen worked to Holl, up to Rasmussen circling, off the line came Johansson, he was blocked, and the Jets chipped the puck down the ice.

DeBrincat fed Seider for a shot that was blockered away by Hellebuyck, and the Jets came the other way, but Vilardi was stripped of his puck, and Detroit raced up…

Chiarot walloped Appleton on a pinch;

Lowry, Niederreiter and company then generated some zone time before Kane, Compher and Copp worked together to at least give Detroit some breathing room.

Detroit almost gave a goal up when Namestnikov deked and dangled in, Logan Stanley got a fine scoring chance…

And at the other end, Watson ripped a long shot in on Hellebuyck that was easy to stop.

Detroit was at least battling back in the latter stages of the 2nd period.

The Jets just kept winning faceoffs, however, and Larkin, DeBrincat and Raymond cycled as best they could, they endured some checks, and Ben Chiarot fired a shot wide, Raymond was tied up and Detroit generated a power play as Raymond was hooked by Pionk at 16:45.

On the power play, the Larkin unit started the affair, and the Jets won the faceoff, but DeBrincat and Seider held the line, Kane fed Raymond but went wide, Seider and Kane worked for Larkin, but Barron cleared the zone;

Seider and Raymond and Kane walked back in, Kane was hooked, DeBrincat and Seider played catch and Seider had to regain possession in the neutral zone…

Kane, Larkin and Raymond cycled as well, and Raymond was passed the puck by Seider, he set up and ripped a whiffleball through DeBrincat and into the goal to make it 3-2 with 17:40 gone in the 2nd.

DeBrincat scored from Raymond and Seider at 17:40. 3-2 Winnipeg.

As play continued, Lyon had to make a couple of good stops, Kane was hooked in the offensive zone sans penalty, Petry turned the puck over To Namestnikov, but a Jet broke a stick, DeMelo got a replacement from the bench, and Compher, Copp and Kane battled away, but Perfetti and Namestnikov skated the other way, the period wound down to its final 20 seconds, and Samberg shanked a shot through Lyon but wide and Pionk was stopped as well as the “knob king” stifled a 2nd period-ending shot to finish the period out.

In the 3rd period, the Wings started the Larkin line opposite Lowry’s, and the Jets won the opening faceoff…

And Nino Niederreiter put a Jeff Petry bounce off Ben Chiarot’s skate to make it 4-2 Winnipeg at 10 seconds of the 3rd.

Niderreiter made it 4-2 at 10 seconds of the 3rd, unassisted.

Detroit brought out Compher, Copp and Kane with Seider and Edvinsson to face the surging Jets, and Kyle Connor walked in and snapped a shot into Lyon’s glove.

The arena certainly deflated quite a bit, going quiet, but the Red Wings attempted to persist, with Berggren, Rasmussen and Kasper going offside on a play that looked to have some pump some 1:33 into the 3rd.

The Lowry line came back out and battled Fischer, Watson and Veleno, with Chiarot and Petry back out on the ice, and Lyon had to stop a Miller shot from the point, a Stanley shot from the blueline, and when Fischer and Veleno attempted to work a 2-on-2, they were stifled.

The Larkin line at least threatened on the next shift, but the Jets were reinvigorated by their goal, and they were playing stout defense.

That didn’t stop Copp, Compher and Kane from nearly scoring off a weird bounce that went to Holl, and slid into Hellebuyck’s glove as Copp accidentally tripped Hellebuyck;

Detroit did, to its credit, continue bumping and grinding, with Berggren, Kasper and Rasmussen doing their best to put up a fight some 5:00 into the 3rd;

Ehlers walked around Johansson, and Johansson tripped Ehlers with 14:14 left in regulation, affording Winnipeg its first power play.

Winnipeg won the faceoff, but Larkin, Raymond, and Seider raced the other eway and Seider chipped a shot wide of the Jets’ goal;

Fischer joined the fray, and Copp joined him as the Wings’ D rotated, with Petry and Chiarot working vs. Morrissey, Scheifele, Connor, etc. cycling, but Fischer blocked a Connor pass to Scheifele;

But Neal Pionk ripped a shot through traffic and the rippling, ruffling wrister was fanned by Perfetti and fluttered through Lyon to make it 5-2 at 7:19 of the 3rd.

Pionk scored from Iafallo and Namestnikov at 7:19. 5-2 Jets.

Worse, Dylan Larkin was called for a phantom slash with 11:39 remaining/8:21 gone, and the Jets went right back to the power play.

Detroit at least won the first PK faceoff, and Fischer and Compher worked with Seider and Edvinsson to stop Connor and then a rebound from Scheifele.

As play continued, Connor, Scheifele and Vilardi gave the puck up to Copp and Raymond, who blazed the other way, but the Jets shut down the 2-on-1.

The Wings at least killed the penalty, but they won the last PP faceoff, and Colin Miller just beat Lyon up high to make it 6-2 Winnipeg with 8:58 remaining, from Appleton and Lowry.

Miller scored from Appleton and Lowry to make it 6-2.

Detroit put the puck off the outside of the post on the next shift, and Chiarot and Petry tried very hard to generate some offense, but they were shut down by the Jets.

Compher, Berggren and Copp at least had a good shift together, but time was ticking down, and the game was out of reach.

When a game is so far out-of-hand, I at least try to watch for work ethic and details as the game winds down, and while the fan base was breaking its ankles jumping off the bandwagon…

The Red Wings were at least trying to establish some foundation for Saturday’s game vs. Buffalo, grinding against the Jets’ high-octane machine.

Scheifele, Connor and Morrissey broke free on a 3-on-1, but Petry managed to stifle it with about 5:20 remaining in the 3rd;

Kasper, Holl and Rasmussen broke in on a 3-on-2, but Holl was blocked off and both Kasper and Rasmussen were tripped up with about 4:30 remaining;

When Albert Johansson made a bumble, the Jets cycled with Niederreiter, Lowry and Iafallow cycling vs. Seider, Edvinsson and the Watson line…

Veleno, Raymond and DeBrincat were then out-classed with 3:15 left in the 3rd;

Kane, Copp and Kasper at least generated a scoring chance that was blocked out of play with 2:00 remaining;

Rasmussen, Kasper and Berggren then nearly ran into each other on the next shift–well, Berggren and Kasper did…

And the Wings put Watson, Fischer and Veleno out for the final minute, with Fischer generating a scoring chance, Veleno regrouping 1-on-4 to be stopped by Hellebuyck with 21.4 remaining…

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!

2 thoughts on “Red Wings-Jets quick take: Deviled Egg-laying made easy”

  1. Keep playing Petry. Sign him to a 5 year extension. Lol. The guy should be scratched most nights. Tarasenko injured? He has not played 82 games in a while or consistently. Yuck, have him again next year.

    The coach should be changed? In the meantime, keep signing and playing Vets. It is working well and so great.

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  2. The second half of the 2nd was the best 10 min of hockey the boys have played all season. It’ll be nice to see what they’ve got in Johansson, with Maatta off to the Utah Elders.

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