Red Wings-Bruins Tweetcap: Boston holds Sway in Detroit

The Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins entered Saturday night’s game with identical 38-23-and-8 records, though the Bruins had 2 more regulation wins than Detroit. As such, Saturday night’s affair pretty much defined a “four-point game” in terms of the stakes thereof.

On Saturday night at Little Caesars Arena, the Red Wings had 1-0 and 2-1 leads, but a couple of bad goals against John Gibson and a spectacular performance by Jeremy Swayman–who stopped 41 shots–yielded a 4-2 defeat, empty-net goal for Boston included.

I wouldn’t totally pin this one on Gibson, who was spectacular at times, stopping 22 of 25 and stopping a Lukas Reichel penalty shot late in the 3rd period…

But the Wings had too many chances to score, and did not finish against a hot goalie.

Them’s the breaks. Now it gets harder from here.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Jeremy Swayman led their respective teams out onto the ice…

The Bruins posted their lineup first, with a picture of Marat Khusnutdinov battling now-Penguins forward Elmer Soderblom…

And then the Wings posted their lineup, with Dominik Shine dialing in after witnessing the birth of his daughter, Callie Leigh…

1ST PERIOD:

The teams dressed the following starters and lineups:

PENALTY: Detroit’s Mason Appleton high-sticked Nikita Zadorov at 3:05, shortly after Alex DeBrincat rang a puck off the post on a 2-on-1.

PENALTY: Detroit got one back when Mark Kastelic tripped Shine in the Wings’ end at 15:41 of the 1st period.

PENALTY: Casey Mittelstadt hooked Simon Edvinsson at 18:57 of the 1st period.

NO GOAL: J.T. Compher ripped a puck past Jeremy Swayman, but the puck beat the goaltender–just not the goal line–to bail the Bruins out as the clock hit 0.0 left.

2ND PERIOD:

PENALTY: Hampus Lindholm hacked Emmitt Finnie with a high stick at 3:04 of the 2nd period.

GOAL: The Red Wings scored on their 3rd power play. Off a fine set of exchanges from Seider to Kane and down low to Copp, Copp flittered the puck through Charlie McAvoy’s stick and skate “triangle” and Raymond blasted home his 22nd goal of the year.

Detroit 1, Boston 0: Raymond (22) from Copp (30) and Kane (30) at 3:35 2nd period, PPG.

PENALTY: David Perron took a lazy interference penalty at 4:35 of the 2nd period, hooking David Pastrnak.

PENALTY: Seven seconds into the PK, Moritz Seider sent the puck out of play into the crowd at 4:42. Delay of game.

GOAL: As you might expect, David Pastrnak was who scored off a pass from Charlie McAvoy, one-timing the puck off the crossbar and in at 5:07 of the 2nd, on the PP.

Detroit 1, Boston 1: Pastrnak (28) from McAvoy (43) and Geekie (25) at 5:07 2nd period, Seider with 1:12 remaining in the box.

And the Bruins managed to crank up the physicality in the 2nd period…

But the period ended deadlocked.

3RD PERIOD:

GOAL: Off a stretch of good play at the start of the 3rd period, Moritz Seider kept the puck in the offensive zone, passed to Alex DeBrincat up high, and DeBrincat ripped a shot off the tip of Jeremy Swayman’s glove, through a J.T. Compher screen, to make it 2-1.

Detroit 2, Boston 1: DeBrincat (35) from Seider (39) at 4:06 of the 3rd period.

GOAL: Off a terrible turnover at the Red Wings’ blueline by Faulk and Perron, Mason Lohrei sent it to Morgan Geekie, he slid a diagonal pass to Elias Lindholm, and Lindholm snuck one through John Gibson’s 5-hole.

Boston 2, Detroit 2: Lindholm (13) from Geekie (26) and Lohrei (18) at 6:22 3rd period.

PENALTY: At 7:11 of the 3rd period, Aspirot tripped Marco Kasper.

GOAL: Nikita Zadorov was afforded a lot of ice by Simon Edvinsson, and Nikita Zadorov ripped a shot over John Gibson’s blocker to make it 3-2 at 9:42 of the 3rd period.

Detroit 2, Boston 3: Zadorov (2) from Geekie (27) and McAvvoy (44) at 9:42 3rd.

PENALTY SHOT: Lukas Reichel was hooked by Patrick Kane on a breakaway.

John Gibson made a toe stop.

GOALIE PULL: Detroit pulled Gibson with 2:25 remaining in regulation time.

EMPTY-NET GOAL: Off a bad faceoff loss that Charlie McAvoy got up to David Pastrnak, he spotted Marat Khusnutdinov at center ice and he ripped an empty-netter in to make it 4-2.

Detroit 2, Boston 4: Khusnutdinov (14) from Pastrnak (58) and Lindholm (29) at 18:08 of the 3rd.

Gibson stayed out.

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!