Red Wings-Bruins quick take: 40 good minutes won’t win you a game vs. the Bruins

The Detroit Red Wings may have glimpsed their future as they eyed the 9-9-and-3 Boston Bruins on Saturday night. The Bruins fired coach Jim Montgomery on Monday, and are beginning to revise their roster under coach Joe Sacco.

As the Atlantic Division continues to pull away from the Red Wings, there’s definitely urgency for the 8-9-and-2 Red Wings to sort out their difficulties internally, lest they share the Bruins’ fate.

On Saturday night, the Red Wings played a really great 40 minutes of hockey, but they lost their “oomph” in the 3rd, and that was enough to drop a 2-1 decision to the Boston Bruins.

Detroit went 0-for-3 on the PP, which did not help, but Cam Talbot stopped 27 fine saves, Raymond got a goal and Larkin got his 300th assist, and the Wings should not have been out-shot 13-4 in the third period in which they had a power play and a lengthy stretch of 6-on-4 time, in which they hit two crossbars behind Jeremy Swayman.

But there is progress here, and the Islanders await on Monday.

In the pregame warmups, Jeremy Swayman led the Bruins out to the ice at Little Caesars Arena…

While Cam Talbot led the Wings out, and Ben Chiarot wore the “A” for Detroit…

The Bruins posted their lineup at 6:56 PM…

The Wings lined up with the following group (posted at 7:01 PM)…

The starters and scratches were as follows:

In the 1st period, Larkin and Zacha drew in for the opening faceoff at center ice, with Raymond and Tarasenko on Larkin’s flanks, and Edvinsson and Seider matched up against the Pastrnak line. Talbot and Swayman started in goal.

Larkin tied up the draw and Seider chipped and Detroit chased, but Boston cycled out of the zone and Edvinsson was the last man back.

Boston regrouped at center, dumped, chased, and Seider gave it up to Pastrnak, but Talbot made a HUGE STOP in the slot, and Detroit pushed back the other way to force Swayman to make a stop.

Kasper mucked up the next faceoff and Kane and Petry exchanged, Kane fired off a Bruins leg, Petry and Chiarot tried to send a puck on net but it went wide, and Detroit regrouped at its blueline 1:10 into teh game.

DeBrincat, Kane and Compher cycled with Gustafsson, Motte fed Berggren Gustafsson nearly scored and the B’s cleared their zone.

Detroit dumped in on Swayman, but the B’s pushed the Wings out to their blueline, and the Wings regrouped again…

Chiarot and Compher could not connect and the B’s broke out, Talbot reversed flow to Motte, Boston took over and backed into its zone, and the B’s chipped and changed at 2:30.

Chiarot walked to center, dumped, Lohrei and McAvoy reversed, Pastrnak carried in but Seider bumped him and skated out to center, Fischer got a shot off on Swayman, Edvinsson pinched, and Tarasenko dropped to a Bruin, and Raymond took over, reversing and finding Larkin behind the net. He saw Edvinsson back door and he tried to feed Tarasenko in front, but he could not.

Raymond then skated in and fired a shot on Swayman at 3:34.

The Wings lost the offensive zone faceoff, and the B’s negated their own icing play, forcing Kasper, Chiarot and Petry to battle down low before the B’s couldn’t hold the puck in.

At center, Kasper and Kane had trouble, so the B’s chipped and chased, centered teh puck to the blueline, and Talbot stopped Lindholm from the point.

Detroit then drew in for a defensive zone draw that Copp lost, Boston pushed the puck out front, and Rasmussen, Gustafsson and Holl back-checked, Copp fed Rasmussen for a break but Rasmussen was held up by Carlo, and Copp helped as did Fischer, but the B’s pushed the puck around the back boards and into center ice.

Holl and Berggren worked the puck deep into the B’s zone, but it rolled out of play, and Detroit regrouped at center, with Motte losing a faceoff and the B’s regrouping as they went offside;

So Chiarot carried the puck to the B’s line, they reset and skated into Detroit’s zone, and Petry iced the puck at 5:32.

The start to the game was rather mucky and somewhat sleepy.

Compher won a d-zone draw, Chiarot chipped and the B’s retained, with Talbot stopping a point shot with his glove.

Compher lost the next draw and the B’s cycled vs. Seider and Edvinsson, reversing to the point, but Detroit was able to clear the zone, and Boston regrouped as Detroit changed lines.

Edvinsson sent a puck in for Raymond deep in the offensive zone–too deep for Raymond–and Marchand battled Kasper, Seider battled Pastrnak, the B’s cycled, and Detroit was called for the game’s first penalty. Marco Kasper sat for a “trip” on Marchand at 6:40.

On the penalty-kill, Boston and Detroit drew in for a defensive zone draw and Lindholm was tossed, but the B’s won the draw and Zacha and the B’s D cycled, Talbot made a good stop on a point shot, Zacha was stifled by a Larkin back-check, the B’s cycled again and worked to McAvoy, Seider and Raymond cleared and changed some 30 seconds into the PK.

Motte, Compher, Chiarot and Petry came out as the 2nd unit, lost a blueline draw, and Boston skated in, worked the perimeter, and Motte raced away right wing side, he battled McAvoy and reversed.

Tyler Johnson took over behind his own net and skated out to center, Boston chipped, and chased,d but Seider, Fischer and Edvinsson were able to generate some offensive pressure on the PK.

With 20 seconds left on the PK, Geekie cycled to the line, Johnson sent a shot toward the net and he scored a goal as the puck hit someone in front–Moritz Seider–as the Bruins had 2 players crashing Talbot’s goal.

Justin Brazeau was credited with the goal at 8:33 on the power play. Johnson and Lohrei got the assists…

But Johnson chipped the puck out of play on the bump-up shift, and he gave the Red Wings a power play for delay of game at 8:56.

ON the power play, Seider worked with Raymond, Kane, Larkin and DeBrincat, Kane shot but was unable to score, Seider sent a shot that tipped wide, DeBrincat cycled to Kane, he was separated from the puck, and Larkin was tied up at center so Zacha could clear.

Kane and DeBrincat worked the puck deep, Seider and Raymond exchanged pucks twice, DeBrincat jammed and Swayman held the line with 59 left in the PP.

The 2nd unit came out and Copp lost a draw, Boston cleared and a terrible pass from Gustafsson was regained, Copp and Compher sent the puck in on Swayman for an easy save with 39 left in the PP, and Detroit needed to start winning faceoffs.

Compher lost another draw, however, and the B’s cleared the zone easily.

Talbot, Tarasenko, Kasper, Compher, Copp & company gave the puck up to Marchand, the B’s chipped the puck away, and the power play expired.

Tarasenko then walked the puck into a Bruin and wide, Chiarot and Gustafsson fired pucks into Swayman, and he held on at 11:10.

After a TV timeout, the Wings won the offensive zone draw to Gustafsson, he fired a puck wide, Holl fed Rasmussen, Gustafsson sent another blast toward the goal, but the B’s blocked Detroit off, and the Wings changed lines.

Gustafsson fed Fischer, he was blocked off, Petry reversed for Fischer, Chiarot held the line for Petry, he fired a shot near goal, and Detroit regrouped at center at 12:10.

Detroit pushed the puck deep but Swayman played it around, Boston regrouped, and McAvoy fed Marchand, the B’s chipped and changed themselves, and Larkin was held up, yielding an icing against.

Detroit won the d-zone draw and eventually cleared the zone, DeBrincat got a long shot in on Swayman, and Kane held the line with Kasper, Detroit bumped, Kane regrouped at center, and Seider and Edvinsson worked the puck to center.

Kasper and DeBrincat fed Kane on the right wing for a dump-and-change, Motte helped Gustafsson send the puck deep once, twice, and Detroit went offside with 13:45 gone in the 1st.

The Red Wings lost a faceoff at the offensive zone blueline but skated up and pushed the puck deep anyway, and when the B’s cleared, Detroit regrouped and forced the B’s to defend.

Motte fed Berggren for a pass that nearly became a breakaway…

The B’s chipped and chased,d Edvinsson battled and Copp helped push the puck out tand down, Rasmussen regrouped at center, he lateralled it to Edvinsson via Compher, and Rasmussen couldn’t back-door score.

Edvinsson set up at 5:05 behind his net and worked it up to Seider, then Raymond, Detroit cycled, Chiarot bumped, Tarasenko battled and found Larkin behind the net, Tarasenko’s shot was blocked and out to center it went.

Chiarot fed Larkin at center, but he was blocked off by Lindholm and Marchand worked behind the Red Wings’ goal, a shot went high and wide to the line, Carlo centered for Brazeau and Detroit chipped and changed with 3:50 left in the 1st.

Boston dumped and changed, DeBrincat, Kasper and Kane were stifled but regrouped, then lost control again.

Boston walked deep, Kasper flicked the puck off the glass and out, the B’s regrouped and attacked again, and Kasper could not clear, Geekie fed Pastrnak and Talbot made a HUGE stop.

Detroit dumped and chased, Gustafsson battled at center, Holl helped in the Wings’ end, Detroit cleared its zone, Compher, Motte and Berggren cycled, Holl blocked the B’s outlet pass, Larkin came onto the ice but the B’s took over puck possession.

Zadorov skated up and fired a pass to Kastelic, who put a puck off the post;

Talbot tapped to Petry, up the puck went for Rasmussen, who was ran, Boston tapped the puck deep, Detroit regrouped, and the B’s set up with 1:15 left.

Kastelic flicked a puck into the Wings ‘corner, Seider skated out and gave to Larkin, Tarsenko fed RAYMOND AND HE SCORED ON A ONE TIMER.

Raymond scored with 57.4 left in the period from Tarasenko and Larkin (who earned assist #300).

As play continued, Detroit battled through the bump-up shift, the B”s broke in and Edvinsson bumped a B off the puck, Lindholm fed Pastrnak wide, McAvoy was blocked by Edvinsson out to center, Lohrei fed Zacha, the B’s regrouped and fired a shot wide of the net as the period came to a close with Kane 1-on-1 with a Bruins D man.

In the 2nd period, the Red Wings brought out the Larkin line opposite the Pastrnak line, and Larkin won the draw to Tarasenko, Edvinsson and Seider played catch and chipped the puck out of play.

On the next faceoff, Chiarot and Petry cleared the zone, but the B’s pressed hard vs. the Larkin line and hemmed Detroit in their own zone for a bit.
Larkin broke out with Tarasenko and he blasted a shot wide; Petry reversed the flow and fired another shot in on Swayman.

Lohrei and McAvoy cleared their zone and the B’s chipped and chased, but Compher cleared to center.

Copp and Motte helped Compher hold the B’s blueline, and the B’s then iced the puck, but Talbot came out to play it, negating the icing call.

When Jonatan Berggren was tripped at the right wing half boards, Tyler Johnson sat for tripping at 1:35 of the 2nd.

Larkin drew in, Seider and Raymond cycled for Larkin, the puck went wide, Raymond re-set at center and Kane did as well, reversing to Seider, he walked through center to Kane, Kane backhanded for Raymond, who rimmed to DeBrincat, but the B’s cleared down the ice.

Seider set up and skated up ice, dropped to DeBrincat, he fed Kane and the Wings walked in, Larkin dropped to Seider, to Larkin it went and the B’s cleared it off the Wings’ bench.

The 2nd unit came out with 1:03 left on the PP and the B’s cleared the zone, Gustafsson had to regroup with Compher, Detroit’s Copp and Compher cycled to Gustafsson, he worked with Tarasenko, who was stopped by Swayman, and the Wings had to set up with 35 left on the PP.

Detroit lost the next faceoff, Talbot set up Gustafsson, he spun to Compher, Copp helped feed Gustafsson, Tarasenko reversed and Kasper worked it back to Gustafsson, Tarasenko fed Compher to Copp shot stopped, Tarasenko sent one wide and the B’s broke out 3 on 2.

Johnson dropped to Zadorov, Talbot stopped that shot, and Detroit regrouped 4:00 into the 2nd.

Boston swiped two passes at center, Geekie fed Lohrei and the Wings regrouped, Fischer dumped, Detroit chased, but the B’s regrouped as well, and sent the puck deep and chased it.

Edvinsson fed Fischer, Swayman played it to his D and up ice, and Petry took over.

Petry gave the puck to Pastrnak and Petry stopped him very luckily.

DeBrincat and Raymond worked with Larkin and DeBrincat fed Raymond, DeBrincat was stopped by Swayman via a Larkin pass, and Petry sent one in on Swayman that was stopped as well.

With 5:18 gone in the 2nd, Kasper’s line hopped over the boards, and he battled away with Berggren and Kane, Zadorov and the B’s broke in and Talbot made a very good stop on Brazeau.

Detroit lost the d-zone draw and regained control only to give it up to Frederic, who was stopped by Talbot, and Talbot stopped a puck without seeing it on a secondary scoring chance by Lindholm.

5:56 into the 2nd, the Wings won a center ice draw, and Detroit battled the puck deep, but Boston controlled the flow, and skated out to center and dumped the puck in. Talbot and Chiarot could not clear, the B’s fired a shot wide, Coyle battled Kane and Petry and Detroit slid the puck out and down the ice.

Kane stole it and Kasper backhanded the puck into the slot, with Berggren charging the net, pissing Swayman off.

Larkin’s line joined the fray after a TV timeout at 6:44, and took an offensive zone draw vs. Beecher that was won to Raymond, and Tarasenko tipped a puck wide;

Raymond cycled to Edvinsson who fired a shot high and wide, Larkin battled and Coyle lateraled but Detroit could not hold the blueline.

Edvinsson and Seider worked the puck up ice, the B’s took over and sent the puck deep into Detroit’s zone for an icing at 7:27.

Compher took the offensive zone draw, tied it up to Berggren, Chiarot centered it and the B’s cleared it out to Pastrnak 1-on-1 with Petry.

Pastrnak dumped, Geekie chased, Lohrei was blocked and Motte was blocked at center as well, but Compher raced up left wing side, Motte battled deep and Compher fed Gustafsson for a deep shot.

Motte and Berggren battled with Kasper and company down low, Berggren cycled with Seider to DeBrincat and his shot went wide;

Edvinsson gave up a pass and Seider blocked off Geekie, Kane regrouped with Kasper and his shot was blocked, Marchand was stifled by Holl in the Wings’ zone…

Detroit regrouped and pushed the puck away from Talbot, where DeBrincat got a great chance to shoot on Swayman, but he fired it wide…

And Brazeau, Carlo and Wotherspoon were pissed off by a DeBrincat and Kane drive-by, so Lindholm headlocked DeBrincat, and he didn’t give a shit.

9:12 into the 2nd, the Wings tied up a draw that rolled into Swayman, took another offensive zone draw, and Copp was tossed for drawing in early, so Rasmussen lost the offensive zone draw, the B’s chipped and chased, Gustafsson was bumped by Coyle,e and again, Detroit cleared the puck to center ice.

Gustafsson fired a shot in but wide of Copp, so he iced the puck at 9:42.

Copp drew in for a d-zone draw and tied it up, the B’s cycled but Rasmussen cleared the zone and iced it at 9:52.

Copp won the defensive zone faceoff, Detroit chipped the puck out of trouble, regrouped to stop the B”s attack, and Geekie fired a shot off the outside of the goalpost;

McAvoy and Zacha tried to convert on a passing play with Pastrnak, but instead, Talbot gobbled up a gorfed up attempt to send the pass to Pasta.

After a TV timeout, the Larkin line came out for a defensive zone faceoff vs. Lindholm and company, Larkin won it to Chiarot and Petry and the Wings dumped the puck down to Swayman, who played it to his D, and then Raymond, who was blocked by Lohrei…

And Lucas Raymond hooked Lohrei, so he sat at 10:39.

On the penalty-kill, Detroit brought out Larkin and Compher, the Wings lost the initial draw but Compher cleared the zone;

Compher shadowed McAvoy, Zacha battled, but up came Compher and Motte, and Motte flubbed the pass…

Pastrnak, Marchand and the B’s went offside on the regroup and recoil, so Detroit got a little lucky there.

Motte drew in vs. Coyle for a blueline faceoff and Coyle was tossed, so Lindholm lost the draw, and Detroit’s Chiarot cleared the zone.

The B’s skated in 3 on 3, Chiarot and Petry blocked shots and passes, the B’s worked the points, cycled, and Coyle tipped a shot wide;

Geekie and Lohrei were stopped by Talbot;

Johnson sent a shot that was blocked by Motte, who cleared the zone;

And that was the power play for Boston.

Raymond came out vs. the B’s as Zadorov centered the puck for a shot that Talbot stopped, Petry and company battled and Talbot stopped Beecher with 7:05 left in the 2nd.

Detroit lost the next d-zone draw, but Tarasenko chipped, Swayman reversed, Tarasenko was tied up and Seider and Larkin disrupted.

The B’s did chip and chase, but Gustafsson and company helped, then Talbot fed Holl, he found Raymond to tap and change, with 6:15 left in the 2nd, and DeBrincat stole at center, Kane fired it wide, Kasper chased, the B’s cleared, and Seider and Edvinsson worked it up ice for Kasper via Kane, Kane backhanded it to DeBrincat, he and Seider exchanged, and when the B’s cleared, Seider regrouped.

Seider fed DeBrincat for a mini-break and he and Zadorov fell, the B’s broke out but Petry denied them, Detroit battled deep and Rasmussen, Fischer and Copp helped Chiarot and Petry hold the puk in deep.

With 4:55 left in the 2nd, Pettry and Fischer fed Rasmussen for a dump, and when Zadorov tried to fight Rasmussen, he did not bite.

Instead, Wotherspoon sat for interference at 15:15.

On the power play, Detroit lost the initial draw, but Kane held the line for Seider ,he and Kane exchanged, Kane walked down low for Larkin and his pass for DeBrincat was blocked by Carlo, who cleared.

Seider set up with Kane, Kane and DeBrincat exchanged at center, and the B’s cleared..

Detroit regrouped, Seider and Kane and DeBrincat worked the perimeter, Larkin took from Marchand, Kane centered, and Marchand skated out vs. Larkin, 2 on 1 came the B’s, Zacha was STONED BY TALBOT, and the 2nd unit came onto the ice.

With 36 left in the PP, Detroit’s Compher worked the puck to Berggren, he was blocked off, Tarasenko and Compher battled the puck in, Gustafsson held the line for a moment, Beecher cycled and Talbot stopped another good stop as the teams evened up their personnel.

So the B’s got 2 scoring chances on the Wings’ PP.

With 2:44 left in the 2nd, Copp drew in for a d-zone draw which he won to Chiarot, Detroit’s Rasmussen dumped, the B’s regrouped, but Chiarot pinched, Pastrnak stole it and the Wings had to defend with Fischer back, he helped Petry and skated up, Copp fed Chiarot for a wide shot in the slot…

Lohrei bounced a puck off Lindholm, the B’s regrouped and skatted deep, Pastrnak battled Chiarot, Zacha battled Motte, Compher could not clear and Zacha cycled with Petry battling him.

Marchand then lost a battle to Motte, once, twice, and Berggren bumped Zadorov at the B’s line.

The B’s regrouped and controlled possession with 1:10 left in the 2nd, but Detroit was resilient, and they did not want to be out-scored late.

Larkin’s line came over the boards and took an offensive blueline draw, Larkin won it to Seider and Edvinsson dumped, Detroit chased, but the B’s broke out, Seider and Edvinsson were pressured, but they cleared it to center, Tarasenko lost it to Coyle, Talbot made one stop, Edvinsson pinned Frederic, Seider battled Coyle, the B’s D McAvoy got a point shot in, and he was stopped with 16.3 left in the 2nd.

The B’s took their offensive zone draw vs. Detroit’s Copp, Pastrnak had to draw in as Zacha was tossed, Copp won it to Chiarot and the Wings did not clear, but the B’s exchange to Zacha was blocked, Copp fired long and the rebound went off Swayman wide of Berggren.

The 2nd period ended.

In the 3rd period, Dylan Larkin’s line started yet again, opposite Pastrnak’s line again.

Larkin lost the draw and the B’s set up, with McAvoy giving the puck up to Larkin, Larkin giving up to Pastrnak, and Seider making a tremendous backcheck to stop Pasta;

Larkin, Tarasenko and Raymond cycled with the D to work the puck deep in Boston territory, and when the B’s broke out, Pastrnak flipped the puck around the back boards, Detroit cleared it easily, and Larkin sent a long shot wide of Swayman;

1 minute in, Detroit changed lines, Kane and DeBrincat worked into the B’s zone and Kane battled Zadorov, but the Bruins cleared to Brazeau, Talbot chipped it around, Brazeau reversed the flow, and Chiarot helped the Wings break out.

The B’s tipped and changed, Chiarot and Gustafsson could not clear, Johnson fed Coyle and he was blocked wide by Compher;

Frederic sent a shot through traffic as well, but Talbot made a great stop.

Detroit lost the defensive zone draw, but McAvoy was stopped by Talbot, Detroit pushed the B’s back as best they could, Beecher and McAvoy were stifled by Talbot, Gustafsson and Berggren battled the puck deep into the B’s zone, and Motte bumped McAvoy, but the B’s regrouped…

Detroit regrouped, too, and Zacha and Peeke were trailed by Fischer and Rasmsusen, up came Zacha and Edvinsson tied him up as Talbot stopped the puck.

Larkin lost a defensive zone draw, but Dettroit broke out and Raymond battled Zadorov, the B’s cleared it down the ice and Detroit regrouped.

A terrible turnover by Edvinsson was flubbed by the B’s…

And Tarasenko and Larkin fired shots on Swayman before the B’s regrouped.

Lohrei fed McAvoy in the slot, but he was not quite ready; the B’s cycled again, taking over possession, but Copp kicked to Fischer, Rasmussen and Copp pushed it into the B’s end and Copp could not finish;

Holl set up at center for Gustafsson, Detroit battled but the B’s pushed the puck back to center and into Detroit’s end, where Holl and Gustafsson cleared the zone, and the B’s regrouped again.

Talbot helped Gustafsson but Frederic and Carlo were stopped, Detroit pushed it out to center and the B’s regrouped yet again.

Dump and chase Boston, Coyle was bumped by Edvinsson, who skated out to center, Kasper could not push the puck further, and the B’s regrouped again, chipping and chasing but icing the puck.

A faceoff at center ice ensued, so Chiarot was hit hard and Petry chipped the puck away from the Wings’ end…

Detroit tried to keep the puck in deep, but the B’s iced it instead with 13:59 left in regulation time.

Larkin drew in vs. Kastellic for an offensive zone draw that the Wings tied up, Edvinsson blasted a shot into the netting, and there was a TV timeout with 13:53 left.

When play resumed, Lindholm won the draw from Larkin in the offensive zone, Marchand cycled vs. Raymond, and the puck hit Larkin up high, but he was okay;

Chiarot chipped, Detroit chased, Raymond battled for Larkin but Zadorov cleared it down ice, Detroit’s Petry came out to center and Kane, DeBrincat and Kasper worked with Gustafsson and pushed the puck to the B’s blueline, but no further;

A bad turnover by the Wings yielded a TREMENDOUS TREMENDOUS TREMENDOUS STOP BY TALBOT on Morgan Geekie.

McAvoy chipped off a Wings faceoff win, Edvinsson surrendered the puck to Zacha, but Compher and Berggren pushed the puck deep for Motte, Swayman played it to McAvoy, and Boston changed.

Seider fed Motte, he dumped, and Berggren chased vs. Swayman, with 11:50 left, Detroit changed and Holl reversed vs. Holl, he blocked Coyle off, and Rasmussen, Fischer and Copp cycled deep, Boston came out and chipped it off the linesman, Johnson, Frederic and company cycled for Carlo on the point, Wotherspoon worked it deep, but Rasmussen stole the puck as Kastellic hit Ras.

Kastellic skated up 3-on-2 and Detroit cleared its zone with 10:43 left, and at center, bodies were flying.

Larkin set up and chipped a puck in on Swayman from the blueline, the B”s set up, and Larkin touched a hand pass to stop play with 10:18 left.

The B’s won the blueline draw, chipped, Marchand chased, Chiarot and Compher worked well and Motte, Compher and Berggren battled, but Talbot had to make another big stop to yield a TV timeout with 9:54 left in regulation.

Kasper took the d-zone draw and won it as the play resumed, Seider chipped for Kasper at the B’s line, but Boston regrouped, Detroit dumped as Edvinsson sent the puck deep, Lohrei gave it up to Kane, Edvinsson and the Wings battled deep, cycled, but the B’s broke out.

Geekie reversed, Coyle walked up 3 on 3 and sent it wide of Talbot;

Frederic and Coyle cycled but Edvinsson and Raymond worked with Larkin and Tarasenko who could not negate an icing with 8:47 left 3rd.

So the Wings took a defensive zone draw, Larkin vs. Lindholm, and the B’s won it again, swept it to the slot, and Tarasenko was there, the B’s regained control, and Marchand scored top shelf with 8:30 left.

Pastrnak dumped to Geekie, he fed Marchand and he snapped the shot top shelf with 8:30 left in the 3rd. 2-1 Boston.

Detroit’s Copp won the puck to the D, Detroit dumped, but Boston chased, Copp fed Gustafsson and the B’s regrouped, Copp and Rasmussen could not finish on a 3-on-1, and Swayman grabbed Fischer no call there…

Fischer, Rasmussen, Copp and the Wings battled down low, Holl and company tried to center the puck over Fischer’s stick at the blueline, and Detroit regrouped, but so did Boston, which chipped and chased.

Boston cycled in Detroit’s zone with Pastrnak stopped by Talbot, Boston battled again, and Chiarot was hit hard and Talbot bailed Chiarot out vs. Geekie.

Detroit iced the puck again with 6:48 left in the 3rd.

The Wings lost the d-zone draw and Marchand fired a shot wide of the goal into the netting;

Lindholm drew in vs. Larkin at the left faceoff dot with 6:45 left, the B’s won it to the D and Talbot stopped that, and Marchand, and Seider gave the puck away, regained control and pushed it up to center, and deeper went Tarasenko, but Brazeau and Lohrei sent the puck deep, Seider regrouped with 6:11 left, and Raymond walked was tripped and no call was made.

Larkin mucked it up, Frederic chipped it up, he was stood up but the B’s pressed further, and Talbot had to make a stop on Johnson;

Motte was dumped in the B’s end and the Wings had to regroup again with 5:25 left, Chiarot found Motte for a line-changing dump-in, Compher couldn’t hold the zone, Koepeke sent the puck deep, he battled the puck out of his own zone, and Edvinsson and Seider joined the fray.

Berggren fed Edvinsson going deeper, but the B’s took over, DeBrincat found Edvinsson and Kasper battled, but Swayman made a stop and Kane held on Seider went to Edvinsson, the B’s blocked it, DeBrincat could not feed it from Kasper, but the B’s iced it with 4:20 remaining.

Larkin drew in for an offensive zone draw, he lost it, and the Wings stole the puck, Raymond worked to Chiarot to Seider, Raymond reversed to no one, Seider fed Larkin who had to regroup at center, Detroit’s Raymond walked deep, fed Seider to Chiarot shot wide, Raymond deep for Larkin, Larkin was hacked, Tarasenko as well, and the B’s cleared with 3:35 left.

Seider fed Larkin and the Wings changed.

Fischer, Copp and Rasmussen banged and crashed, but Marchand and Brazeau battled deep, the Wings cleared their zone, and Boston held possession.

Petry and Edvinsson worked together and fed Copp from Rasmussen, and the puck went off Zadorov and out.

With 2:58 left in the 3rd, the final TV timeout hit.

Having run out of gas…

Detroit drew in for an offensive zone draw where Kasper, Berggren and Compher came together to lose an offensive zone draw, Petry chipped for Berggren, he was hit by Zadorov, CHiarot held the line for Berggren, Zadorov battled Kasper, Petry chipped, Detroit chased, the B’s cleared…

Petry set up with 2:23 left in regulation time, Larkin cycled for Kasper and bak, Kane lost the puck, the B”s flipped on Talbot and Seider walked out.

Larkin gave to Kane, he charged up and Talbot headed to the bench…

And DeBrincat shanked a one-timer high and wide.

The Wings won the offensive zone draw but the B’s iced it as Marchand beat Kane to the puck and flipped it away…

With 1:42 left in regulation, Larkin took a right-side faceoff with Tarasenko, DeBrincat, Kane, Seider and Raymond, the Wings lost it, Zadorov cleared it off Kane, and Raymond was the last man back, held and hooked by Marchand, who was going to be called…

Kane walked in and was stripped so the B’s captain headed to the box with 1:22 left in the 3rd.

On the power play, 6-on-4…

Larkin drew in for the faceoff vs. Lindholm, Lindholm won the draw to Zadorov and he cleared the puck down ice.

Seider and Larkin worked the puck to Kane, he dropped to Raymond, he fed Seider, to Kane rt wing side, blocked, Zadorov cleared down ice, and 50 seconds remained.

Seider fed Raymond to Larkin it went, DeBrincat to Seider to Raymond to Seider it went to Kane to Seider off the crossbar and Swayman held the puck out.

29.5 seconds remained.

The Wings called timeout.

Larkin drew in for what may be the final faceoff vs. Zacha, he lost it, the B’s McAvoy fell, Raymond and Larkin fed Kane, and he hit the post with 17.5 left.

Detroit then lost the draw and Seider cycled with 8 left, DeBrincat fed Raymond, he fed Tarasenko and the B’s won by stifling Tarasenko.

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-Bruins quick take: 40 good minutes won’t win you a game vs. the Bruins”

  1. There has to he a change and i think Lalonde has to go. Simply to send a message that this is not acceptable. You can’t fire 23 players, you can fire 1 coach.

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