Month: January 2026

The Red Wings attempted to snap a 2-game losing streak when they visited the Ottawa Senators for the first of four meetings with Detroit’s Atlantic Division rival.

On Monday night in Ottawa, the Red Wings definitely looked like a team in progress, but it was a team that prevailed thanks to John Gibson’s strong goaltending. Gibson stopped 35 of 38 shots against as Detroit blasted its way to a 3-0 1st period lead, held on as the Sens made it 3-2, and raced away, ultimately winning 5-3 over Ottawa, which has 3 games in hand on Detroit.

I’m going to defer to the game summary for a recap thereof, and leave it to you to read what happened instead of summarizing it here…it’s gotten clunky, so, enjoy!

PREGAME: John Gibson and Leevi Merilainen led their respective teams out onto the ice at the Canadian Tire Centre:

Continue reading Red Wings-Senators Tweetcap: Gibson, Red Wings pull out a crucial victory over Ottawa

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…

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

The Detroit Red Wings headed into Pittsburgh for the back half of a back-to-back slate of games and the start of a home-and-home series against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night. The Penguins had won 2 straight and boast 17 wins on the 2025-2026 season.

On Thursday night at PPG Paints Arena, well…The game was weird. The Red Wings lost 4-3 in overtime, but Cam Talbot was excellent despite giving up 4 goals on 31 shots, and the Wings were 2-for-7 on 13:48 of PP time!

Crosby would open the scoring with a pair of goals at 4:08 and 5:46, taking advantage of significant screens on Talbot, but James van Riemsdyk would score the 2-1 marker with a tip of an Emmitt Finnie shot at 17:56, for the Wings’ first of two PP goals…

In the 2nd period,d Andrew Copp would score one of the stranger goals of the entire season off a stanchion bounce at 1:01 of the 2nd, but Blake Lizzotte would score through another double screen at 15:51 of the 3rd…

And while Alex DeBrincat scored off an end-boards-and-in rebound of a Lucas Raymond shot at 17:02, on the PP…

Detroit would lose in OT, with Kris Letang scoring on another weird screen at 58 seconds, from Crosby and Rust, no less, to force the Wings to lose one of two valuable points. At least the Wings got one…

PREGAME: Cam Talbot and Arturs Silovs led their teams out onto the ice at PPG Paints Arena:

Continue reading Red Wings-Penguins Tweetcap: bounces, screens, and Kris Letang yield an overtime loss to Pittsburgh in a weird, sleepy affair