Red Wings-Sharks quick take: AMTV

The Detroit Red Wings faced an important “barometer game” against the San Jose Sharks on Monday night.

Having dropped to 7-9-and-1 and second-to-last in the Atlantic Division, the Wings hoped to predate upon a 5-10-and-4 San Jose Sharks team in order to snap a two-game road losing streak.

On Monday night, the Red Wings kept letting the Sharks tie the game, and it cost them. Dylan Larkin’s 1-0 goal was assuaged by William Eklund’s first, Marco Kasper’s 2-1 goal was assuaged by Eklund’s 2nd, Rasmussen’s was tied by Toffoli, Luke Kunin scored the go-ahead in the 3rd, and while Alex DeBrincat tied the game late to force overtime…

Macklin Celebrini scored an OT winner to push the Wings to 1-2-and-1–1-and-3, really–on their 4-game road trip.

Talbot was excellent despite giving up 5 goals on 34 shots against, but the Red Wings played as if they were out of gas in the 2nd, 3rd, and OT, being out-shot by a total of 22-10.

In the pregame warmups, Cam Talbot and MacKenzie Blackwood led their respective teams onto the ice at the SAP Center…

The Sharks utilized the following lineup…

While the Red Wings tweaked their lineup:

The starters and scratches were as follows:

In the 1st period, Detroit’s “checking line” of returning Michael Rasmussen, Andrew Copp and Fischer were reunited opposite Wennberg, Dellandrea and Ferraro;

A healthy Edvinsson and Seider opposed Ferraro and Liljegren, and in goal, it was Talbot vs. Blackwood.

The puck hit the ice at 10:39 PM EST, and the Sharks won the draw, went D to D and chipped and chased, Edvinsson and Seider worked the boards, had to reverse a Shark shot that went wide of the net, and Rasmussen was unaware of a puck in his feet, so the Sharks chipped, Holl and Gustafsson sent the puck up ice again, and iced it at 1:31 of the 1st period.

As such, the Sharks won the draw and sent a shot wide, with its rebound fired into Talbot by Cody Ceci at 1:38 of the 1st.

Detroit won the next draw, and Seider and Compher sent the puck up to DeBrincat, he battled Granlund and cycled to the line, where Detroit’s Seider sent a puck in on Blackwood;

San Jose broke back up the ice and Eklund and Zetterlund were blocked off as Dylan Larkin raced up 1-on-3, and fired a shot off a defenseman’s stick and into the netting over the glass at 2:17.

Tarasenko, Kasper and Kane took to the ice, won an offensive zone draw, and after resetting at center, the Wings tried to establish possession and control, but instead, Macklin Celebrini and his teammates skated up 2-on-2, and Celebrini fired a long shot in on Talbot that was stifled and held.

The Wings won a defensive zone draw, but Kostin generated a couple of shot attempts on Talbot and the Sharks worked back to their defense, where Grundstrom fired a shot in on Talbot from the point.

Copp drew in for an offensive zone faceoff at 3:09 of the 1st, completing the 4-line rotation, and Petry blocked a Sharks shot, Detroit chipped and chased, Fischer reversed flow for Rasmussen, who was tied up by Ferraro, Fischer worked the LW boards and Rasmussen was pinned again, so Dellandrea and the Sharks worked another puck to the post, and Ceci was stopped by Talbot.

San Jose led in shots 6-0 as the Red Wings’ top line cleared the defensive zone, and Talbot reversed a dump-in behind the net, but he had to stop a seventh attempt before Raymond, Larkin and DeBrincat worked the puck to Seider on the right wing, and he fired a shot off Blackwood’s blocker;

The Sharks regrouped and Eklund circled vs. Chiarot, pushed the puck back to the point for a shot on Talbot, and Detroit regrouped, with Kasper joining the fray and skating into the Sharks’ zone.

Again, the Sharks controlled their own boards, and Chiarot came in from the point to help Kasper set up Patrick Kane for a point-blank opportunity that was stopped by Blackwood.

Kasper won the next draw and Kane turned and fired another puck at Blackwood, who made an easy stop;

Kasper lost the next offensive zone draw, and the Sharks dumped the puck down the ice, regrouped after a Chiarot turnover, and Detroit pushed the puck to the Sharks’ blueline before San Jose regrouped, cycled and sent a shot wide from the blueline.

Celebrini fed Smith for a shot that went high and wide and out to center, affording both teams time to change lines.

Detroit regrouped and Compher, Berggren and Veleno needed help from Gustafsson and Holl to clear the zone once, the Sharks pushed the puck back in, and Detroit struggled to clear their zone, with the Sharks going D to D, chipping deep and retrieving for a shot by Gundstrom at 6:14. Talbot stopped it and we hit the first TV timeout.

Detroit was trailing 8-4 in shots and 13-7 in shot attempts.

When play resumed, Fischer drew in for a defensive zone draw that he won to Chiarot, Detroit cleared the zone but had to regroup again as Toffoli and the Sharks tried to set up.

Chairot chipped and Blackwood played the puck up ice, where Liljegren and Wennberg were stifled, the Sharks regrouped, and so did the Red Wings, who were giving up the blueline easily to San Jose.

Edvinsson and Seider worked with DeBrincat, Larkin and Raymond and Larkin scored a backhand goal off a fine feed from Simon Edvinsson.

Detroit scored the 1-0 goal at 7:28 of the 1st period. Larkin from Edvinsson!

The goal was scored off a turnover from Jake Walman.

The Sharks responded on the bump-up shift with a good shot on goal from Will Smith, and after a Detroit icing call, Kasper and Seider combined to work the puck out and down the ice, affording Detroit a change;

Ceci and the Sharks chipped and changed vs. Compher’s line, Compher chased Ceci and Walman, and San Jose regrouped, with Granlund and Zetterlund forcing Detroit into a penalty.

San Jose pulled Blackwood and Granlund was able to center the puck for Toffoli, who was denied by Talbot.

Detroit headed to the penalty box at 9:02. Petry sat for hooking.

ON the penalty-kill, the Sharks won the offensive zone draw, cycled along the perimeter, and Detroit cleared their zone;

Larkin, Raymond, Seider and Edvinsson opposed the Sharks’ top PP unit, and Seider, Larkin and company cleared the puck down the ice again;

San Jose regrouped and reset, sent the puck deep, Eklund, Zetterlund and Wennberg cycled down low, Copp tipped a puck, but Wennberg cycled for Eklund and Zetterlund fired a shot off the crossbar…

And William Eklund took the rebound and jammed the puck into the goal behind Talbot via a wise jam play.

Eklund scored the 1-1 goal on the power play, at 10:26 of the 1st, from Wennberg and Walman.

San Jose nearly scored on the bump-up shift, but Kostin passed up an opportunity to shoot point blank, and DeBrincat, Larkin and Raymond worked together, regrouped at center once, twice, Seider and Edvinsson helped Larkin push the puck deep, and the Sharks regrouped, skated into Detroit’s zone, and they held the line, but DeBrincat broke out, Larkin flittered a shot off DeBrincat, Raymond and DeBrincat cycled together, and Seider helped keep the puck to Larkin, who was stifled by Blackwood on a Grade-A chance.

The Sharks dumped and changed with 7:30 left in the 1st, and Veleno, Berggren and Compher cycled with Petry and Compher, they regrouped, Compher jammed the boards and Berggren was blocked by Celebrini but Berggren blasted a loose puck wide;

Veleno watched Celebrini and Goodrow be stood up by Chiarot, Ferraro regrouped and sent the puck deep for Zetterlund, the Sharks centered for Eklund and he tried to wrap the puck around the goal, but he could not do so.

Seider then worked with the Copp line to cycle for Edvinsson, who lost the puck and held Granlund, who was bumped by Seider away from the puck…

So Edvinsson sat for interference at 14:15.

On the penalty-kill, Detroit lost the opening faceoff, and Jake Walman blasted a slap shot into Talbot.

San Jose tied up the next draw, Walman faked a slapper and the Sharks worked the perimeter, cycling to the bumper, where the Sharks could not convert;

Wennberg, Eklund and company cycled more, and Walman was blocked off by Larkin, who passed the puck to Raymond, and Raymond reversed the puck for Larkin instead of shooting into a near-empty cage.

Walman sat with 15:16 gone in the 1st for holding Raymond up.

Kasper, Tarasenko, Chiarot and Petry worked a 4-on-4 for 1:00, and the quartet worked the puck up ice after an o-zone faceoff loss, Kasper worked as the last man back and pushed the puck up ice to Tarasenko, Chiarot helped work it deep, and San Jose regrouped, but Detroit retained the puck as the 4-on-4 wound down…

On the power play, which lasted 1:00, Raymond, Larkin, Kane, DeBrincat and Seider cycled, worked the perimeter, and tried to thread the needle to Larkin, who was blocked once, retained for Seider and Kane, Ceci broke his stick, Larkin fed Kane and Ferraro blocked the pass, Detroit continued to pressure and Walman broke in behind Seider and fired a shot wide coming out of the box.

Detroit dumped and changed, and this time another penalty was called as San Jose had too many men on the ice at 17:38 of the 1st.

On the power play, the Wings brought out the top unit again, and they lost the opening faceoff, but Seider worked with Raymond and DeBrincat to cycle, DeBrincat was fought by Ceci for the puck, Larkin was tied up as well, and the Sharks broke out 2-on-1…

Detroit blocked the shot and regrouped, with Seider setting up Kane for a neutral zone carry, Larkin and Kane and DeBrincat exchanged, Seider fed the puck deep to Larkin and there was a pause as the puck hit the netting with 1:07 left in the PP and 1:28 left in the 1st.

Copp & company came out with Tarasenko, Compher, Gustafsson and Kasper, and Kasper jammed at a loose puck, Tarasenko fired a shot toward the goal and the rebound was ROOF DADDIED BY KASPER to make it 2-1 at 18:48.

Kasper scored from Tarasenko and Gustafsson on the power play to make it 2-1 Detroit at 18:48 of the 1st period.

As the period wound down, Detroit pushed the puck away from their blueline once, twice, and Tarasenko, Compher and Berggren were blocked off by Smith, who broke out, but Seider saw the Sharks changing, chipped, and the puck bounced out of play again with 13.9 left in the 1st.

San Jose dumped the puck into the Wings’ zone to end the 1st period.

In the 2nd period, Detroit began the period with Copp, Rasmussen and Fischer, they mucked the draw back to Petry, and his chip-in was called an icing only 9 seconds into the period…

Detroit was ultimately awarded a middle-ice faceoff, and Fischer fired a pass to Copp, who was STONED BY BLACKWOOD.

Raymond joined the fray, Chiarot held the point, DeBrincat also joined, Petry cycled, Larkin and DeBrincat got help from Seider, and DeBrincat fired a shot that was stopped by a Sharks defender.

San Jose iced the puck, but the Sharks were not called for icing, and DeBrincat fired a shot wide, but the Sharks were able to break out, dump and chase as Larkin flicked the puck out to center ice, Walman reversed the flow, Talbot helped Detroit push the puck to the half boards, and Raymond and Larkin worked together, but Blackwood STONED LARKIN as well.

Petry then came back out and chipped and chased himself, Kane fed the point and no one was able to retain the pass, so Detroit regrouped and reset in its own zone.

Kasper, Tarasenko and Kane were unable to penetrate the Sharks’ blueline at first, but Kasper pushed the puck deep, Tarasenko cycled to the point, and the Sharks blocked Gustafsson’s shot.

Detroit entered the zone as Compher’s group came out, Berggren battled away, and the Sharks iced the puck again, and this time, it was called as such at 3:33.

Compher drew in and won the draw to Gustafsson, whose shot was blocked into the netting;

Compher lost the next offensive zone draw, but Detroit mucked along the boards as Berggren fed Compher, and then Gustafsson sent a shot-pass off a body wide of Berggren.

Berggren then iced the puck, and the Wings consulted each other before the d-zone draw that was won by San Jose, Holl and Veleno worked with Compher, but the Sharks got the puck back to Ceci, he was blocked, Berggren escaped, chipped and changed and the Sharks set up at 4:33.

San Jose dumped and chased, Toffoli battled away but Copp and Rasmussen battled the puck deep, Fischer helped retain possession, and Rasmussen wrapped but passed to no one, Seider and Edvinsson played catch, Seider walked the line and fired a puck off a Shark wide…

Fischer was held but Rasmussen wrapped and forced Blackwood to make a big stop.

Detroit then tied up the next draw, and DeBrincat was blocked out at the blueline, Detroit regrouped and Larkin lost the puck at the Sharks’ right wing half baords, but Detroit pushed San Jose into the neutral zone, and their Swedes…

Somehow scored as Cam Talbot was baffled by William Eklund, giving up a soft goal against.

Eklund tied the game 2-2 at 5:59 of the 2nd, from Ferraro and Zetterlund.

Detroit continued to battle the puck into Blackwood’s grill with Tarasenko, Kasper and Kane battling hard down low in the Sharks’ zone, and when the Sharks borke in 3-on-2, the Sharks shanked their shot wide.

Detroit dumped and tried to change with Edvinsson battling hard, the Sharks pushed back, and Compher blocked a shot and cleared Detroit’s zone, knocked a puck down and Seider fed Veleno for Compher and he was blocked.

Kostin then fed Kunin, but Talbot stopped Kunin on the end-to-end rushes.

Berggren was then held up chasing a puck into Blackwood, and his defenseman chipped the puck into Detroit’s bench, ushering in a timeout.

When play resumed, Detroit won an offensive zone draw, and Rasmussen, Fischer and Copp cycled, pushed the Sharks off the puck at center, and regrouped, re-entered the zone, and utilized Holl and Gustafsson to push the puck up the boards…And Michael Rasmussen put the puck off Henry Thrun and through Blackwood to restore the Red Wings’ 1-goal lead.

Rasmussen scored at 8:11, unassisted.

Detroit’s Larkin line came out and battled the puck through center, DeBrincat walked in and fired a hard shot off Blackwood and into the netting.

The Wings lost the offensive zone draw, San Jose blasted their way up the ice, and both Walman and then Celebrini got shots off that Talbot had to stop;

Compher lost a d-zone draw and Walman’s shot was tipped into the netting at 9:07.

Detroit continued to pressure the Sharks as best they could, but San Jose regrouped and Goodrow, Smith and Celebrini cycled, Veleno blocked a slot shot, Ceci worked it to Walman for a shot that Talbot stopped, Celebrini centered and Detroit was held in it zone…

But Berggren and Veleno broke out and fired a shot in on Blackwood that Compher tapped after it was stopped, yielding a scrum.

The second TV timeout hit at 10:01.

After the timeout, Detroit was pushed back to center, Kostin walked in 1-on-5 and got a pusk to cycle around the boards, and Talbot tried to play a puck off the dasher and nearly got caught out of position.

Detroit cleared its defensive zone once, Kostin was tripped, and Gustafsson laughed as the referee assessed a tripping penalty because Kostin tripped over Gustafsson’s legs at 10:47.

On the penalty-kill, the Sharks won the draw and cycled to Walman and Granlund walked in, reversed to Walman and back, Walman worked the puck to Granlund and back and the #96 from San Jose sent the puck wide, Granlund stole the puck from Raymond and Larkin, but Edvinsson and Seider cleared the zone.

Detroit could not change as Granlund raced back in, and Walman battled Veleno, Talbot made a big stop on Eklund and Detroit cleared for a full change with 1:08 gone in the PK.

Smith, Celebrini and company cycled deep, reversed flow and Talbot held the centering pass off another weird bounce off the back boards.

Talbot gave the Wings something of a timeout as his right goal skate needed to be repaired, and with 39 seconds remaining in the penalty-kill, Detroit lost the draw, Talbot had to stop Toffoli, and Detroit cleared the puck down to Blackwood.

San Jose battled away and regrouped, Compher was able to chase the puck away and he skated in and sent a shot wide of Blackwood, Larkin came out to help Blackwood, and he pushed a Shark away as Liljegren and Larkin got tied up.

The penalty expired and Kasper walked deep, centered for Tarsenko, Kane fed Kasper, and the Sharks’ Kunin picked it off.

Detroit regrouped in its own zone, pushed the puck in and Kasper battled Ferraro, Grundstrom worked the puck to Ceci, he chipped, San Jose chased, and Eklund walked down low, he fired a shot off the goalpost and the Sharks found the puck wide and Eklund got another hat trick chance that Talbot was able to stifle.

After a TV timeout, Edvinsson and Seider could not clear, Zetterlund, Granlund and Eklund were able to push a puck to the point and the shot went wide, Granlund battled Seider, Berggren, Compher and Veleno could not clear, Edvinsson shoved Granlund away from the net, San Jose cycled well, and Edvinsson pushed Granlund out of the zone himself.

San Jose regrouped, Seider and Edvinsson fed the puck to center, Toffoli dumped, San Jose retrieved, Dellandrea and Toffoli cycled, Veleno and Compher and Berggren were still on the ice and Compher cleared it down wide of the net to change.

Ceci dumped and Chiarot flubbed a bouncer that Talbot had to clean up with 4:02 remaining in the 2nd.

Detroit lost the next faceoff, Walman fed Ceci, and his pass shot went wide, but Celebrini and San Jose cycled, Petry fed DeBrincat, he sent a long pass to Raymond, who was held up by Walman, and the Sharks were able to repel the Larkin line with 3:10 left.

Fischer forechecked, Copp and Rasmussen battled at center ice, and Gustafsson backahnded a puck up the boards for Copp, Rasmussen reversed and was bumped off the puck by 2 Sharks, San Jose chipped and chased, Zetterlund and Eklund cycled, Granlund fed the slot and Gustafsson chipped it away.

The Sharks regrouped, reentered the zone and Detroit cleared it down the ice, Kane negated an icing, but the Sharks charged back up as Kostin chipped and chased, Seider bumped Kostin, Edvinsson was hit to make a play, Tarasenko and Kasper were aided by Seider to dump and change, and with 1:24 remaining in the period, the Sharks chipped and changed.

Raymond dumped for DeBrincat, the Wings’ D pinched to help Larkin but instead Chiarot and DeBrincat connected, and the puck rolled into Blackwood with 57.6 left in the period.

Talbot had another pad repair due to a bad skate lace on his right skate, and when the Wings wwent to win the faceoff, DeBrincat was unable to penetrate Shark shin pads.

Toffoli and Wennberg worked to put the puck in the slot and Toffoli tied the game with 41.8 left in the 2nd. Toffoli skated away from both Chiarot and Petry, and he chipped a centering pass in behind Talbot.

Toffoli from Wennberg and Dellandrea. 3-3 at 19:18.

The Sharks then iced the puck with 24.2 seconds left in the 2nd, Veleno tied up a draw deep in the offensive zone, and Edvinsson could not hold the line, but Detroit regrouped, dumped, chased, and San Jose blew clock as Compher’s pass for Berggren was blocked by Zetterlund.

The 2nd period ended tied 3-3.

In the 3rd period, Detroit began with the checking line vs. Wennberg and Toffoli, the Wings won the draw, Petry and Chiarot afforded Rasmussen time for a thundering hit, and the Sharks cleared their zone, charged into the Wings’ end on a chip that was offside, and Detroit broke out…

Chiarot skated to center, dumped, the Sharks iced the puck, and it was waved off, so DeBrincat came back to help Seider and Edvinsson, he charged up for Raymond, and the puck was held by Blackwood on the dump-in.

Larkin drew in 58 seconds into the 3rd and the Wings lost the draw, but Seider ripped a shot wide of the goal, Detroit jabbed and battled their way through center, and Larkin chipped so Detroit could change 1:21 in.

The Sharks regrouped and Ceci ripped a shot over Talbot’s glove–and the net, too.

The Sharks prevented Chiarot from clearing the zone, but Petry fed Tarasenko, Kane and Kasper, who helped center the puck, but they over-committed, so the Sharks charged up 2-on-1, and Talbot stopped a Celebrini shot, stopped a Smith shot, and the Wings chipped the puck into the benches.

Detroit won the d-zone draw and cleared the puck down ice, but immediately iced the puck, affording San Jose another offensive zone draw.

Detroit won the draw and cleared to center, Holl regrouped when the Sharks chipped, San Jose regrouped at center again, and Gustafsson and Holl worked the puck up for Berggren and Veleno, the Wings bumped into each other…

And Compher and Holl, the last men back, foiled a 3-on-2.

San Jose was dominating puck possession and control.

Detroit was able to chip pucks out of trouble, but not much more, until Rasmsusen ripped a shot off Jake Walman’s skates and out of play with 3:39 gone in the 3rd.

Copp drew in for an o-zone faceoff and tied it up, but the Sharks chipped it out to the line, Edvinsson held it in, Fischer and Rasmussen worked with Copp to center it for Seider, and the puck was tipped wide as Rasmussen was held in front of the Sharks’ goal.

No call was made.

Detroit could not gain possession in the Sharks’ end, but the Larkin line got bailed out by the Sharks going offside at the Wings’ blueline.

DeBrincat drew in for a draw at the Wings’ line, lost it, and Petry and Chiarot lost the puck, but Detroit’s DeBrincat cleared the zone, San Jose regrouped, Larkin swept the puck away to center, Zetterlund worked it around to Granlund, Eklund cycled and centered a puck wide, but Raymond and the Wings broke awa…

Raymond had the puck blocked off his stick and Chiarot and Gustafsson cleared the puck deep so Detroit could change.

Kasper, Kane and Tarasenko worked together, but San Jose broke into Detrit’s end, Celebrini and Smith were blocked off, Tarasenko helped Seider work the puck free to center, and Detroit changed with 6 minutes gone in the 3rd.

San Jose chipped the puck deep but iced it 9 seconds later, and Compher lost his offensive zone draw, San Jose broke in and Luke Kunin skated between the Wings’ defense and chipped a shot through Talbot to make it 4-3.

Kunin scored from Grundstrom and Thrun at 6:19.

Compher lost his check and that was that.

Detroit lost the center ice draw, iced the puck, and Toffoli shot on Cam Talbot, Wennberg cycled to Ferraro and Liljegren, Toffoli and the Sharks bumped teh Wings’ D, and a point shot was blocked wide by Rasmussen, but Detroit struggled, Toffoli fed the line and Wennberg chipped deep for Toffoli, Liljegren was blocked away, and Detroit finally cleared with 12:39 left in regulation.

Holl, Copp, Raymond and the Wings watched the Sharks charge up ice and in, but Larkin repelled them, Seider helped hold the offensive zone blueline, Edvinsson shot a puck off a Sharks skate, and Detroit pushed deep, but the Sharks flipped the puck out of trouble.

With 11:45 gone in the 3rd, Detroit dumped and changed, San Jose regrouped and reentered Detroit’s zone, Goodrow cycled for Smith, he pushed the puck deep off Petry, Goodrow was blocked and Kane battled the puc kinto San Jose’s zone, where Kasper deked, dangled and was stifled by Celebrini.

Smith and Celebrini fired a shot off Talbot’s blocker, Celebrini got the rebound at the blueline and fired another on Talbot;

Celebrini got a third shot attempt and Kostin worked with Celebrini for another shot and stop.

Ferraro to Kostin stopped by Talbot and booted out of play.

With 10:23 left in the 3rd, Detroit looked awful.

The TV timeout hit, and after its expiry, Talbot had to stop another Sharks shot off a lost defensive zone draw. Again.

The Sharks won the next draw, and Kostin chipped deep, Veleno and Berggren could not clear, San Jose cycled to the line, and worked it deep.

Veleno and Berggren helped Gustafsson chip the puck deep into San Jose’s territory, and Detroit regrouped at its own blueline, Gustafsson chipped, Larkin charged into San Jose’s zone, and Raymond battled at center as the Sharks recoiled.

Simon Edvinsson was then hit heavily in the Wings’ end, and Edvinsson hit the boards shoulders first, but he shook off the hit with 9:22 remaining in regulation.

When play resumed after a TV timeout, Detroit had to repel a Sharks invasion of sorts, with Chiarot and Fischer trying to find Rasmussen, but they were blocked off.

San Jose chipped the puck over Chiarot’s stick, Petry, the last man back, charged out to center, and stopped. So Detroit regrouped as the Sharks took control of the puck, dumped and chased.

Fischer took the puck for Tarasenko, he was blocked away, Raymond bumped a Shark, Seider found Tarasenko and Larkin waited for a pass, he got it and battled deep for Raymond, Raymond cycled and fed Larkin for a gorgeous shot stopped by Blackwood with 8:01 remaining.

DeBrincat, Kasper and Kane worked together but they lost the offensive zone draw, the Sharks worked the puck into Detroit’s zone, dumped DeBrincat, Seider worked the puck out of the zone and Edvinsson fed it to Kane for a deke that put the team offside with 7:36 remaining.

Detroit lost the offensive zone blueline draw, but the Sharks iced the puck with 7:29 left.

Larkin came out and drew in vs. Celebrini, the draw was won to Edvinsson, Detroit battled down low, Tarasenko bumped for Raymond, but the Sharks cleared the zone and did not ice it, so Talbot had to play the puck to Edvinsson.

He found Tarsenko who fell, Raymond cycled for Larkin, and up came the Sharks.

Toffoli and the Sharks regrouped, Raymond pushed the puck deep and Detroit changed with 6:30 remaining.

The Sharks chipped and chased, Holl was hit by Kunin, San Jose cycled to the line and Talbot stopped a tremendous shot with Grundstrom in front of him.

Compher drew in with 6:21 left, tied it up and Gustafsson sent it down the ice, but to Walman, who regrouped and dumped it down in on Talbot.

Veleno reversed for Holl, he chipped up for Berggren but was blocked off, Veleno held up a Shark and Veleno headed to the box with 5:54 remaining as Walman sold a holding penalty.

On the penalty-kill, San Jose won the draw, and cycled to the point, Lijlegren fed Celebrini, the Sharks went for Toffoli in the bumper, but they held on despite Detroit’s blocks, Celebrini went to Liljegren and back, Celebrini blasted one wide and Detroit changed its PK.

San Jose SLOWLY moved it to center and went offside with 5:08 remaining.

With 1:15 left in the PK, Detroit lost a faceoff and San Jose slowly worked it up ice, Walman flubbed a dump back but the Sharks retrieved, entered Detroit’s zone, and Petry and Chiarot were tied up, Raymond and Fischer worked hard but Walman found Eklund behind the goal, Eklund fed Zetterlund, Walman got a shot on Talbot that was stopped and Detroit blasted the puck down ice.

Walman fed the puck to Ceci and the Sharks dumped in, Compher and Edvinsson struggled, San Jose cycled, and the PK expired, Veleno worked with Compher and Rasmussen, pushed the puck deep, Kane lost the puck off a change, and the Sharks chipped and chased.

Gustafsson was dumped and San Jose sat with 3:26 left in the 3rd as Dellandrea sat.

On the power play, Detroit went with Kane, Seider, Raymond, DeBrincat and Larkin, Larkin won the draw to Raymond, Seider and Kane fed Larkin, he looked for Seider and he blasted a shot on Blackwood, Larkin and Raymond cycled for DeBrincat, Kane fed Larkin rt wing side, Kane took and shot it off Raymond, Detroit held the zone, Raymond could not hold the zone and with 2:40 left the Wings changed PP units.

DeBrincat, Larkin, Seider, Raymond, DeBrincat, Seider, cycle cycle and Raymond could not find Larkin in front, Ceci was blocked, DeBrincat fed Raymond, he walked, walked down to DeBrincat, and HE SCORED THE GAME TYING GOAL.

DeBrincat scored from Raymond and Larkin at 17:54, PPG. 4-4.

Detroit worked the puck up ice after losing the center ice faceoff, Copp missed a Rasmussen pass and the Sharks cleared to center, CHiarot found Rasmussen whose deke didn’t work on Liljegren, San Jose worked to center, Smith was blocked by Veleno and he fired a shot high over Blackwood.

Tarasenko and Compher worked together, Smith gave the puck away, Edvinsson walked around the goal and fed Seider for a walker and he lost the puck to Eklund, Eklund was stoned by Seider and the Sharks cycled, but Seider bumped Eklund down, Seider fed Veleno, Zetterlund and Granlund cycled instead, Edvinsson couldn’t stop Eklund, San Jose pushed it to the point, Talbot blocked a centering pass, Zetterlund was dumped and Detroit chipped the puck out of trouble.

San Jose worked it up to center, dumped, and Seider held it.

IN OVERTIME…

Larkin, Rasmussen and Seider started vs. Wennberg, Eklund and Ceci.

Larkin won the draw to Seider, Rasmussen exited for Raymond who took the puck, Larkin fed Raymond but he was blocked off and cycled deep walked deked and sent the shot off Blackwood…

San Jose regained possession and growled at the refs…Ceci stood behind his goaltender till he found Granlund and he deked to Celebrini, he walked in and scored.

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One thought on “Red Wings-Sharks quick take: AMTV”

  1. Saltwater in the wound last night, I had to watch on my phone. The boys don’t look prepared. They don’t look organized. They don’t play for 60 min.

    Yakety Sax is playing in my head when I watch Petry. WTAF is he doing out there? He’s a competent NHL Defencemen, how is he blowing so many assignments?

    I love Berger, I just wish he was heavier in his skates. It was depressing to see a bunch of literal children beat the Wings last night. The Wings should have been playing a punishing physical game to introduce Celebrini & the rest of the high draft picks to a MAN’S GAME.

    I sure do miss #16.

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