Month: November 2024

Red Wings-Flames wrap-up: Wings aren’t adverse to playing defensive hockey in order to win

The Detroit Red Wings defeated the Calgary Flames via a 2-1 overtime decision on Wednesday night, scoring power play goals in both regulation and overtime to defeat a methodical, hard-working Calgary team.

Lucas Raymond’s game-winning goal was almost as much relief as anything else, given that the Wings worked so very hard to earn what turned out to be a single point…

And CalgaryFlames.com’s Ty Pilson reported that the Flames felt that they’d at least earned a point out of what was, at times, a sleepy game, as well…

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Red Wings-Flames quick take: A special teams kind of win

The Detroit Red Wings faced a stiff task in facing the 12-7-and-3 Calgary Flames on Wednesday night at Little Caesars Arena.

Detroit hoped to build upon Monday’s 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders, while the Flames, who hadn’t won a road game since November 5th, planned on rebounding from a Monday loss to the Ottawa Senators.

On Wednesday night, the Red Wings truly won a strange game. The Flames are full of pop-gun offense, but instead, Alex DeBrincat scored a regulation power play goal at 6:33 of the 1st, Connor Zary tied it up at 17:12 of the 3rd on a power play, and Lucas Raymond scored the OT winner at 3:35 of OT on the power play.

In between, Cam Talbot was sterling in stopping 24 of 25 shots, the Red Wings played well against the Flames’ puck possession machine, and the game seemed endlessly boring at times, but exciting at others, and it was most exciting at the right moment.

Detroit has now won 2 games and hopes to win another when the Devils come to town on Friday.

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NHLPA.com on the friendships between the DeBrincat and Kane families

NHLPA.com’s Chris Lomon posted an article which discusses the friendships between both Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane, and their kids, Archie and Patrick III:

Patrick, a three-time Stanley Cup champion and 2016 Ted Lindsay Award recipient, has enjoyed watching the two boys continue to grow their love of the game.

“It’s fun to see Patrick and Archie enjoy coming to the games so much,” said the NHL veteran of over 1,200 regular-season games. “It’s such a great privilege the Red Wings allow them to be outside the locker room when we come back for warmups and give the players fist bumps. I know Patrick enjoys it so much and looks forward to every game he can come to. And the next day when I ask him what his favourite part of the game was, he always says, ‘playing hockey with my friend Archie.’”

Like sons, like fathers. The forwards played together from 2017 to 2022 in Chicago, before Alex was traded to Ottawa in July 2022.

Alex, who was selected 39th overall by Chicago in the 2016 NHL Draft, played an integral role in convincing his former teammate to sign with the Red Wings, which Patrick did last November.

“He’s fun to be around,” said DeBrincat. “He’s a funny guy who is always joking around. As a teammate, he is a good leader he brings that experience and wisdom to the team. There are a lot of different things that he excels at. He’s won almost everything you can win and from my personal experience, it’s cool to learn from him. He is always working on his game and always trying to elevate what he does.”

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Prospect round-up: Kiiskinen 2A in return from injury for HPK

Of Red Wings prospect-related note in Europe today:

In the Finnish Liiga, Jesse Kiiskinen had 2 assists, finishing at +1 in 18:35 played as he returned from injury in in HPK Hameenlinna’s 4-3 overtime loss to KalPa:

In the Swedish Allsvenskan, Maximilian Kilpinen finished even in 7:27 played as Ostersunds IK lost 3-2 to Djurgarden;

Liam Dower Nilsson finished at -1 with 1 shot in 15:28 played as IF Bjorkloven lost 5-1 to Kalmar HC;

And in the Swedish J20 league, Charlie Forslund had an assist in Mora IK’s 3-2 OT loss to AIK:

Many thanks to Red Wings Prospects on Twitter for the highlight clips.

Red Wings and Flames game-day notebooks: Wings hope to buck Thanksgiving playoff trend; Calgary hopes to keep PP humming

Updated at 3:21 PM: The Detroit Red Wings are aware of the fact that most teams which are in the playoff mix at American Thanksgiving make the playoffs. As such, Detroit’s players told MLive’s Ansar Khan and the Detroit News’s Ted Kulfan that they know they have to buck a traditional trend:

“I think the biggest thing about U.S. Thanksgiving – what’s the numbers? It’s like 70-80 percent make the playoffs – and usually that’s the top end of it,” [coach Derek] Lalonde said. “It’s usually that 20 percent that’s battling throughout. Hopefully, we’ll stay in that mix and that battle.”

Last season, 13 of the 16 teams in a playoff position on this holiday qualified. The Red Wings were among the three that didn’t (St. Louis and Seattle the others), and the only one in the Eastern Conference that missed.

“You look at the standings and you don’t want to be too far behind at this time of the year,” Dylan Larkin said. “I don’t think there’s much to if you’re in first place right now, you’re going to finish in first place. They’re not handing out trophies at U.S. Thanksgiving. Twenty games in and our division’s clumped up. We just need to get on a run and we’ll be back in the place we want to be.”

They’ll need to play more like they have the past three games (2-1-0, five goals against) than the three before that in California (0-2-1, 15 goals against).

“I know much of it is goaltending, but as far as the way the team’s playing, our goalies have been really good and we’re still giving up a lot of chances,” Larkin said. “Not a lot off the rush and not much in the slot. But when it has been there, our goalies have answered it. And I think that’s key to playing defense — they can’t be taking slot shots every shift, four, five, six times a period. So, we minimize them and really try and focus on keeping them to the outside. And if they want to float pucks in, we’re going to box out and make a clear lane for our goalie.”

Lalonde and Larkin continued while speaking with the Detroit News’s Kulfan…

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Videos: Larkin and Lalonde speak with the media, and HSJ talks Thanksgiving standings with Larkin, Seider and Petry

The Red Wings face the Calgary Flames this evening (7:30 PM on FanDuel SportsNet Detroit/Sportsnet 360/97.1 FM), and Cam Talbot will be starting opposite Dan Vladar (Ville Husso will be backing up Talbot due to an injury suffered in the morning skate by Alex Lyon), but Patrick Kane remains sidelined with an upper-body injury.

After the morning skate, Dylan Larkin and coach Derek Lalonde spoke with the Wings’ media corps…

And the Free Press’s Helene St. James also posted a video in which the Red Wings’ Dylan Larkin, Moritz Seider, Jeff Petry and coach Lalonde discuss their place in the NHL standings at American Thanksgiving:

Red Wings officially recall Ville Husso under emergency conditions

Per the Red Wings…