Red Wings-Penguins Tweetcap, rematch version: egg on your face, Red Wings

The Red Wings hosted the Pittsburgh Penguins in a Saturday matinee game, hoping to even their home-and-home series after losing in overtime to the Pens on Thursday. Detroit boasted a 24-14-and-4 record going into today’s game, good for 1st in the Atlantic Division and first in the Eastern Conference.

On Saturday at LCA, the Red Wings laid an egg, losing 4-1 to the Penguins, who went 2-and-0 against the 0-1-and-1 Detroit Red Wings.

Bryan Rust opened the scoring with a ripper at 3:44 of the 1st, and Yegor Chinakhov made it 2-0 at 17:30 with a mini-breakaway marker;

Alex DeBrincat would chip away at the Pens lead at 15:06 of the 2nd, zinging an unassisted marker past Stuart Skinner off a big John Gibson rebound…

But nothing was done in the 3rd and Detroit gave up 2 empty-netters, to Rakell and Dewar.

Pittsburgh out-shot Detroit 31-12, and Gibson stopped 27 of 29.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Stuart Skinner led their respective teams onto the ice…

The Penguins posted their lineup first…

And the Red Wings’ lineup Tweet included their starting lineup:

1ST PERIOD:

The teams dressed the following starters and lineups:

GOAL: Off a Emitt Finnie turnover at center ice, the Penguins’ Crosby line raced into Detroit’s zone, and Rust chipped the puck off Finnie’s stick and past John Gibson at 3:44.

Pittsburgh 1, Detroit 0: Rust (16) from Crosby (21) and Wotherspoon (12) and 3:44 1st period.

PENALTY: Brett Kulak got caught holding Andrew Copp’s stick at 7:45 of the 1st.

PENALTY: Moritz Seider high-sticked Dewar at 8:47, giving the Wings 58 seconds of 4-on-4 time and the Pens a 1:02 PP.

GOAL: Ben Kindel saw the Red Wings changing 4 players, including Moritz Seider, who asked for the change, and the ill-advised 4-man change hurt the Wings. Yegor Chinakhov skated in alone off the stretch pass from Ben Kindel and beat Gibson to make it 2-0 Pittsburgh at 17:30.

Pittsburgh 2, Detroit 0: Chinakhov (4) from Kindel (8) and Wotherspoon (13) at 17:30 1st.

2ND PERIOD:

GOAL: At 15:06, John Gibson stopped a shot whose rebound rolled out to center ice. Alex DeBrincat picked up the rebound, blazed in on Stuart Skinner 2-on-1, and fired the puck over Skinner’s shoulder.

Pittsburgh 2, Detroit 1: DeBrincat (22) unassisted at 15:06 2nd period. Should have an assist to Gibson.

PENALTY: Tommy Novak went off for hooking Emmitt Finnie at 16:41 of the 2nd period.

3RD PERIOD:

PENALTY: Simon Edvinsson went for hooking at 34 seconds of the 3rd period.

Their first Tweet in hours:

GOALIE PULL: Gibson sat with 2:23 left in the 3rd, and Raymond was the 6th skater.

GOAL: Rickard Rakell took a puck from Seider and ripped it into the empty net at 19:00 of the 3rd. 3-1 Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh 3, Detroit 1: Rakell (5) from Crosby (22) and Rust (21) at 19:00 3rd.

GOAL: Connor Dewar scored the 4-1 goal into an empty net at `19:28 of the 3rd period. Lizzotte assisted.

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 2: Dewar (7) from Lizzotte (5) at 19:28 3rd period.

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!