The Red vs. White Game today, held at Centre ICE Arena and streamed on the Red Wings’ YouTube channel, was a little strange in more ways than one.
First, the game was supposed to take place over the course of 2 24-minute periods–with 20 minutes of stoppage time, and then 4 minutes of alternating power play time for one minute apiece (no one scored on any of the 8 special teams sessions)–but the game was tied 1-1 after 2 periods, so a 3rd 10-minute period was hastily added, and, when that resulted in no winner, a 5-man shootout determined the game’s final result.
Long story long, Mitchell Stephens scored a lovely breakaway goal for the red team, but Riley Barber tied the game at 1-1 from Kirill Tyutyayev; after Stephens scored his second goal, on a feed from Taro Hirose, Pius Suter deked his way past Moritz Seider to tie the game at 2-2, and, in the shootout, Lucas Raymond (on a deke-fest) and Vladislav Namestnikov (5 hole on Calvin Pickard) scored what ended up constituting the 3-2 shootout-winning tallies.
Here’s Fox Sports Detroit’s highlight clip from the game:
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