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…

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

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:

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Red Wings-Jets Tweetcap: a little sleepy farewell to 2025 goes Detroit’s way, 2-1 over Winnipeg

The Detroit Red Wings began a set of 3 game to be played over the course of 4 days and nights by hosting the Winnipeg Jets at Little Caesars Arena. Winnipeg’s had a rough season thus far, but the Wings didn’t want to be the team that hosted the start of a season-salvaging victory.

On Wednesday night at LCA, the Red Wings prevailed 3-1 in a real sloppy, sleepy victory over the Jets.

Winnipeg out-shot Detroit 25-19 and out-shot-attempted Detroit an ugly 55-34, but the Wings held on thanks to a 24-stop effort from John Gibson and a superb 18-shot-bock effort by his defense in front of #36.

Dylan Larkin broke open the scoring only 8:22 into the 1st period, on a power play marker from Seider and Raymond, and Mason Appleton gave Detroit a 2-0 lead at 14:48 off a lovely set of passes from Rasmussen and Compher…

Detroit sort of sailed through a 2nd period that wasn’t all that awake, and while the Jets put the hammer down in the 2nd and 3rd, out-shooting Detroit by a 20-9 cumulative total, Logan Stanley was the only Jet to dent Gibson, scoring at 7:04 of the 3rd period, and the Wings killed a power play to Winnipeg at 8:24 and held on from there.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Connor Hellebuyck led their respective teams out to the ice at LCA:

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Red Wings-Maple Leafs Tweetcap: Edvinsson, Red Wings earn 3rd straight over Toronto in a gritty OT affair

The Red Wings looked to rally from Saturday’s loss to Carolina by hosting the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sunday evening.

Toronto came into Sunday night’s game coming off a 7-5 win over Ottawa, and the Leafs had won 2 straight games.

On Sunday night at Little Caesars Arena, well..Wow. Detroit won an electric game in OT, rallying from 1-0 and 2-1 deficits to defeat the Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime on a Simon Edvinsson goal.

The Leafs would open the scoring only 4:25 into the 1st as Matthew Knies took a pass from Auston Matthews and scored a power play marker on Cam Talbot…
Detroit would tie the game on a big booming wrist shot from Moritz Seider at 19:01 of the 1st…

But Nick Robertson would score the go-ahead-marker at 4:53 of the 3rd period on a pass from Tavares…But Mason Appleton would respond right back with a chipper shot, and in overtime…

Simon Edvinsson took a pass attempt from Toronto’s Dennis Hildeby, their goaltender, and skated back into the slot and scored at 1:45 to end the game and cap an unlikely comeback (for him and the Wings alike):

PREGAME: Cam Talbot and Dennis Hildeby led their respective teams out onto the ice at LCA:

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Red Wings-Hurricanes Tweetcap: egg-laying made easy in Carolina’s 5-2 win

As the holiday break concluded, the Detroit Red Wings headed into Carolina on a 3-game winning streak, hoping to add to the Hurricanes’ struggles as the Canes were riding a 3-game losing streak coming out of the Christmas break.

The Canes still stood upon the top of the Metropolitan Division, and Detroit, of course, is in a dogfight for a playoff spot in the highly-charged Atlantic.

On Saturday night in Raleigh, the Red Wings laid an egg, frankly, losing 5-2 in a game in which Detroit was out-shot 38-20 and out-shot-attempted 77-39.

Michael Rasmussen would open the scoring for the Wings, surprisingly, at 12:39 of the 1st, giving Detroit the lead, but Jason Blake (3:22 of the 2nd), Eric Robinson (4:37 of the 2nd) and Shayne Gostisbehere (15:22 of the 2nd) would break the game open with the Canes leading 3-1 after 2 periods…

And while the Red Wings rallied with an Andrew Copp PPG at 3:11 of the 3rd, Svechnikov would take advantage of a Dylan Larkin stumble at 13:09 of the 3rd, and Jordan Martinook would salt things away with an empty-netter at 18:39.

John Gibson gave up 4 on 37 shots, while Brandon Bussi continued his dominant NHL start with 18 stops on 20 shots.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Brandon Bussi led their respective teams onto the ice at the Lenovo Center:

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Red Wings-Stars Tweetcap: Captain Larkin delivers an OT Christmas present against the Star-studded Stars

The Red Wings ended their pre-Christmas schedule with a match-up against the scintillating Dallas Stars on Tuesday evening.

The Stars came into the game having won five straight games, and as Dallas began it’s “Fathers’ Trip,” they were looking to keep the good times rolling.

On Tuesday night, Dallas pushed Detroit to its limits. James van Riemsdyk would open the scoring at 9:23 of the 1st period, scoring off a lovely little pass from Michael Rasmussen at the side of Casey DeSmith…

But Dallas would score a PPG at 10:47 of the 2nd, from Roope Hintz, and Dallas would score a shorty at 19:16 as Jamie Benn ripped home a hard rebound through Gibson…

Emmitt Finnie jabbed a Lucas Raymond pass home from Lucas Raymond at 3:02 of the 3rd, however, and after Wyatt Johnston broke the game open with a 3-2 goal at 11:18 of the 3rd…

Dylan Larkin scored his 19th goal at 15:57 of the 3rd on the PP, and this happened in OT:

Captain Larkin’s 20th goal, at 34 seconds of OT, gave Detroit its 3rd win in a row and gave John Gibson his 8th in a row.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Casey DeSmith led their respective teams out onto the ice at Little Caesars Arena…

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Red Wings-Capitals Tweetcap: sleepy Wings manage to salvage an OT win over the Caps, sweep the weekend series

The Detroit Red Wings looked to earn a series sweep against the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon, having defeated the Caps 5-2 on Saturday in the first game of a two-game “Moms’ Trip.” Detroit entered today’s affair with a 7-2-and-1 record over their past 10 games.

On Sunday afternoon, the Red Wings pulled off an unlikely win, frankly.

Washington out-shot the Wings 14-5 in the 1st period, and Ethen Frank scored walking through Albert Johansson and then going 5-hole on Cam Talbot at 14:17…

But at 8:37 of the 2nd period, on the power play, Lucas Raymond blasted an ASP pass into the goal to tie the game, and, remarkably, John Leonard would leg-score on an Alex DeBrincat’s shot at 13:44, giving the Wings a 2-1 lead…

And it looked like it would end that way, but Frank would sneak onto the ice and blaze a 5-hole goal through Talbot at 10:22 of the 3rd, in which the Caps out-shot a sleepy Wings team 10-4 (Detroit out-shot Washington 12-8 in the 2nd)…

And an OT power play did not work for the Wings, but the last-second regroups by the Caps didn’t pay off as they cycled back to center and back to center again…

And instead, Moritz Seider would benefit from a Copp-and-Finnie 2-on-1 which became Andrew Copp ripping the puck back to Seider, whose snap shot found the back of the net at 4:36 of OT.

PREGAME: Cam Talbot and Charlie Lindgren led their teams out onto the ice at Little Caesars Arena…

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Red Wings-Capitals Tweetcap: a Capitol affair yields a 5-2 Detroit victory

The Detroit Red Wings began a gauntlet of 3 games to be played over the course of 4 nights by playing against the powerhouse Washington Capitals on Saturday afternoon, kicking off a home-and-home matinee series with the Caps. Both teams began the day with 19 wins…

Detroit doesn’t do back-to-back games very well (they’re playing 3 back-to-backs over the course of the next 2 weeks), nor do they play well on national TV (both of this weekend’s Wings-Caps games air on the NHL Network, and Tuesday’s game against Dallas is a TNT exclusive), too, so the Wings face down some demons this weekend as well.

On Saturday afternoon, the Red Wings faced the Capitals and won a tremendous 5-2 effort.

John Leonard would open the scoring at only 1:05 of the 1st period, scoring his first goal as a Wing from Edvinsson and Copp. That would serve a 1st period where the Wings out-shot Washington 17-6…

1:37 into the 2nd period, James van Riemsdyk made it 2-0, and Elmer Soderblom’s deke-and-dangle made it 3-0 at 5:55;

Moritz Seider scored a really cool breakaway goal at 10:05 of the 2nd…

And while Aliaksei Protas made it 4-1 at 10:36 of the 2nd, and Martin Fehervary scored the 4-2 goal at 8:30 of the 3rd, the Wings got a favorable call when Gibson was bear-hugged by Protas at 9:41, negating a Jakob Chychrun goal (though Protas was shoved into Gibson by Ben Chiarot).

As such, the Wings prevailed in the 3rd, with Dylan Larkin scoring his 18th goal into an empty net at 17:10.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Logan Thompson led their teams out onto the ice at the Capital One Center…But on the road + the moms’ trip = no video thereof…

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Red Wings-Islanders Tweetcap: Detroit escapes the first-game-back trap, earns a measure of revenge vs. the Isles

The Detroit Red Wings opened their pre-Christmas stretch run by hosting the New York Islanders on Tuesday at Little Caesars Arena, facing a team that’s won 3 straight and 6 of their past 7 games.

The Islanders have also pummeled the Red Wings in their first two meetings, defeating Detroit 7-2 and then 5-0, so there was a bit of a revenge factor involved in tonight’s affair.

The Red Wings are also in a situation where they need to accumulate as many wins as possible to remain in the Atlantic Division and/or Wild Card playoff race as the Atlantic division’s stacked with incredible parity at present, so every night is a challenge not to be overlooked.

On Tuesday night at LCA, the Red Wings earned a measure of revenge, winning a 3-2 decision over the Islanders that was very hard-fought.

Emil Heineman would actually open the scoring at 4:27 of the 1st period, and the Wings looked pretty gassed throughout the 1st and part of the 2nd, but the Wings shook off the “First Game Back From A West Coast Swing Sleepies” (FGBFAWCSS) as the 2nd period progressed, and in the 3rd period…

Axel Sandin Pellikka would break Sorokin’s shutout at 2:03, from Lucas Raymond; 1:22 later, at 3:55, Alex DeBrincat would score a power play marker from Seider and Raymond, to break the tie…

And while Scott Mayfield would tie things up at 11:26, a bad penalty by Mayfield would yield Alex DeBrincat’s game-winner, his 20th, from Seider and Raymond, at 17:43 of the 3rd.

Patrick Roy would pull the stellar Sorokin, but the Red Wings spent most of their time almost getting Alex DeBrincat a hat trick instead while the Isles were up 6 skaters to 5.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Ilya Sorokin led their respective teams out onto the ice at Little Caesars Arena…

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Red Wings-Blackhawks Tweetcap: DeBrincat, Kane, Gibson star as Detroit takes a 4-0 decision from Chicago

The Red Wings attempted to close out their 6-game road trip with a victory against the Connor Bedard-less Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday at the United Center. Wrapping up the road trip with a series of 3 games in 4 nights and 4 in 6 wouldn’t be easy, but these road trips always present challenges in terms of the quantity of games played over a short period of time.

On Saturday night, the Blackhawks gave Detroit no inch, out-shooting Detroit 26-24 and an ugly 12-4 in the 3rd period…

But Detroit got a whole bunch of goals early, and John Gibson was up to the task the rest of the way, helping Detroit pitch a 26-save shutout en route to a 4-0 win over the Blackhawks.

Alex DeBrincat would score only 55 seconds into the 1st period, from Copp and Kane, and DeBrincat would return the favor at 4:35, setting up Kane for a 2-0 marker.

After Detroit killed off a couple of Chicago power plays–3, to be exact–Emmitt Finnie scored his 7th from Raymond and ASP, who danced along the blueline to set up the goal, at 14:23 of the 2nd…

And while the Hawks dominated the 3rd, Alex DeBrincat would earn his 3rd point of the night via an empty-netter, despite doing his best to set up Patrick Kane repeatedly for goal #499. Instead, DeBrincat would score his 18th of the season, and Kane would be stuck on #498.

Detroit took 4 of their 6 road games, and while they didn’t quite sweep Western Canada, the Wings won 3 games over the course of 4 nights and 4 over 6 in the final portion of their road trip. Ultimately, the 4-1-and-1 road trip gives Detroit 9 of 12 on the road trip.

Now the Wings go home and play a set of back-to-backs on Tuesday/Wednesday (vs. the Islanders and Mammoth), they get another two-day break on the 18th and 19th, and they play matinees against Washington on the 20th and 21st. A game at home against Dallas will wrap up the pre-Christmas schedule.

PREGAME: John Gibson and Arvid Soderblom led their respective teams out onto the ice at the United Center:

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