Red Wings-Maple Leafs Tweetcap: Detroit sweeps season series vs. Toronto via an OT win

The Detroit Red Wings headed to Toronto to open a 3-games-in-4-nights road trip, facing off against the playoff-desperate Maple Leafs on Wednesday night in Hogtown.

At the Scotiabank Arena, the Red Wings surrendered the game’s first goal, were out-shot 14-7 in the 2nd period, and surrendered a penalty shot to Scott Laughton (who opened the scoring 4:46 in) halfway through the game…

But John Gibson stopped 30 of 31 shots, and while Joseph Woll was equally excellent, stopping 39 of 41 shots, Simon Edvinsson would tie the game at 19:42 of the 1st, and, when regulation time solved nothing…

Dylan Larkin and Moritz Seider combined making fine plays–a stripping of the puck from Easton Cowan via Seider, and a blazing deke-dangle-and-shot move by Larkin–to score the OT winner at 3:08 of OT:

PREGAME: John Gibson and Joseph Woll led their respective teams out onto the ice…

As you might expect, TNT’s panel was waxing poetic about the Red Wings’ trade deadline possibilities…

Alex DeBrincat spoke with noted Leaf fan Paul Bissonette…

Toronto posted its lineup first…

With the Wings following soon after:

1ST PERIOD:

The teams dressed the following starters and lineups:

Toronto is always a hype machine…

GOAL: Toronto got the cycle going and set up Scott Laughton off a play in which the Leafs forward snuck away from Axel Sandin Pellikka’s poor coverage on the right-hand side of the net, affording him a wide-open lateral pass from Jarnkrok and Lorentz at 4:46 of the 1st.

Toronto 1, Detroit 0: Laughton (7) from Jarnkrok (1) and Lorentz (10) at 4:46 1st period.

PENALTY: Easton Cowan mugged a Wings d-man–Albert Johansson–in the left corner, and sat for holding at 5:37 of the 1st.

After the PP, Kane and DeBrincat nearly connected, but Brandon Carlo made a superb stop:

The Leafs almost scored, too, as Edvinsson and Seider got caught too widely-spaced, and Michael Rasmussen missed a back-check:

GOAL: Dylan Larkin was tossed from a deep defensive zone draw, but Marco Kasper tied up the puck, Mo Seider pushed the puck to the boards, where Lucas Raymond blazed up the right wing and saw Larkin standing at the offensive blueline. Raymond gave and went with Larkin, lateralled the puck to Marco Kasper, who drove the net, and then Raymond pumped it back to Simon Edvinsson, whose magical pinch yielded a 1-1 goal with 17 seconds remaining!

Toronto 1, Detroit 1: Edvinsson (6) from Raymond (39) and Larkin (21) at 19:42 of the 1st period.

2ND PERIOD:

PENALTY: Jacob Bernard-Docker tried to clip Matthew Knies and got called for tripping at 4:28 of the 2nd period.

PENALTY: Off a faceoff, James van Riemsdyk tripped Maccelli at 9:31 of the 2nd period.

PENALTY: Calle Jarnkrok gave his stick to Troy Stecher when the Leafs defenseman lost his stick, and then Jarnkrok tried to grab Emmitt Finnie’s stick at 14:49. He sat for holding the stick.

PENALTY SHOT: at 16:41, Simon Edvinsson got tagged for a penalty shot because Scott Laughton made a fuss after having his stick lifted. JOHN GIBSON was up to the task.

That would do it for the 2nd, though Lucas Raymond sustained two heavy hits late in the period from McCabe and Benoit.

3RD PERIOD:

OVERTIME:

GOAL: After much patience, Moritz Seider stripped Easton Cowan of the puck, shoveled it to Dylan Larkin in the Leafs’ end, and Larkin raced in on Joseph Woll and BLASTED THE PUCK INTO THE BACK OF THE NET to give DETROIT A SERIES SWEEP at 3:08 of overtime!

Toronto 1, Detroit 2: Larkin (25) from Seider (27) at 3:08 of OT.

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-Maple Leafs Tweetcap: Detroit sweeps season series vs. Toronto via an OT win”

  1. Hey George, thanks for the update, as always.

    I noticed that the first video in your post is Larkin’s OT winner from a previous game, and not last night.

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