AWood40 posted a 14-and-a-half-minute long highlight clip of last night’s game:
2. The Free Press’s Helene St. James posted a subscriber-only article chronicling the Wings’ win over Buffalo, noting that Moritz Seider spoke of relief regarding his team winning (as they continue to play 11 times in 17 nights) instead of patting himself on the back for scoring his first NHL goal:
The Detroit Red Wings are coming off a 4-3 overtime victory over the Buffalo Sabres, and they will get right back at ‘er on Sunday, using that “extra hour” of time* to prepare for a home engagement against the Vegas Golden Knights (6 PM EST start on Bally Sports Detroit/ATT Sportsnet Rocky Mountain/97.1 FM).
Absent a morning skate for both teams, most likely, we’ll examine Vegas’s win over the Canadiens, which was a rematch of last Spring’s Stanley Cup Semifinal.
In terms of video highlights, for those of you who are visual learners, here are Sportsnet’s Vegas-Montreal highlights…
The Detroit Red Wings may or may not have earned their 4-3 overtime victory over the Buffalo Sabres, but they took it nonetheless, and coming into Saturday night’s tilt 0-3-and-1, sometimes you have to just take those “unearned” victories and run with them.
Detroit comes home for a 4-game home stand that begins tonight against the Vegas Golden Knights (6 PM EST on Bally Sports Detroit/ATT Sportsnet Rocky Mountain/97.1 FM). Vegas rallied from a 2-0 deficit and a 20-to-1 shot deficit in their first period vs. Montreal to take the Canadiens 5-2 on Saturday, so it will be interesting to see who comes out and takes Sunday’s affair.
As far as Saturday’s effort is concerned, Detroit rallied from a 3-1 third period deficit on the strength of a pair of Tyler Bertuzzi markers, and Moritz Seider’s game-winning OT goal was his first…
But if the Red Wings had not received fine goaltending from Alex Nedeljkovic, who stopped 29 shots, I’m not sure we would have seen the Wings recover after Pius Suter’s first-shift goal was buried by 2 2nd period goals scored in 1:04, and a 3rd period-marker by a man whose name is legally spelled Arttu Ruotsalainen.
Lucas Raymond had a game of his own, assisting on 3 of the Wings’ 4 goals; Bertuzzi added a helper for a 4-point night, and the pairing of Nick Leddy and Filip Hronek played close to (and over) 25 minutes, so Detroit may have found a 1A/1B pairing on defense…
And the Sabres, who were without several of their own marquee names, sounded quite a lot like the Red Wings in their assessments of Saturday night’s loss, as the Buffalo News’s Lance Lysowski noted:
Of prospect-related note in North America on Saturday:
In the ECHL, the Toledo Walleye held their home opener on Saturday, and Red Wings prospect Kaden Fulcher stopped 22 shots en route to a 6-0 Walleye shutout over the Kalmazoo K-Wings.
Ethan Phillips had an assist, finishing at +1 with 1 shot in the Boston University Terriers’ 6-2 loss to Northern Michigan University. Robert Mastrosimone finished at +1 with 1 shot;
The Grand Rapids Griffins won a tight game on Saturday night, building a 2-0 lead on goals by Tyler Spezia and Taro Hirose, and then hanging on for a 2-1 win over the Rockford IceHogs thanks to a 21-save effort by Calvin Pickard.
The Detroit Red Wings attempted to snap a 4-game winless skid as they took on the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night.
The Detroit Red Wings probably didn’t earn their win, fumbling a 1-0 lead into a 3-1 deficit heading into the 3rd period, but the Red Wings’ talent took over, with Tyler Bertuzzi scoring 2 3rd-period goals, and Moritz Seider scoring his first NHL goal to make it a 4-3 overtime victory.
Detroit is arriving. Seider, Raymond, Bertuzzi, Larkin are high end. They need to hit pretty big on 4 more draft picks to play or use to big game trade hunt; the have enough solid guys to fill out the rest. they are ready to add UFAs. Just got to make the right bet. https://t.co/xRZcZ8F2Eh— Bucci Mane (@Buccigross) November 7, 2021
The Red Wings got going on a first-shift goal by Pius Suter, assisted by Lucas Raymond and Tyler Bertuzzi, but Buffalo crawled back into the 1st period, had a huge second, scoring 2 goals, and by the time Arttu Ruotsalainen had scored the 3-1 marker some 6:08 into the 3rd, it felt like the game was over.
Instead, Tyler Bertuzzi was given two great feeds Danny DeKeyser and then Pius Suter–set up by Lucas Raymond both times–as Detroit scored 2 goals in 1:30, and in overtime, Moritz Seider came off the bench (on a sketchy change) and made no mistake on the feed from Bertuzzi.
That being said, without the play of Alex Nedeljkovic, who stopped 29 of 32 Sabres shots, the Red Wings played far too sloppily and loosely defensively to win. Detroit just earned its luck the old-fashioned way–they lucked their way out to some extent, and earned the rest because the Red Wings were more talented than the Sabres.
In no small part thanks to Bertuzzi, Raymond and Seider.
Forward Lucas Raymond and defenseman Moritz Seider are among the rookie offensive leaders statistically, and both are among the early favorites to win the Calder Trophy (rookie of the year).
The play of both young players has been a pleasant development for the Wings, but Blashill wouldn’t say if they’ve exceeded expectations.
“I don’t necessarily place expectations on guys that haven’t been able to do it yet in the league, not that they won’t or will, but until you prove it, you wait and see,” Blashill said. “I don’t get too wrapped up in the expectations side.
“They’ve both done a good job. They’ve both had quality ice time, good opportunity and they both have done a good job with that.
“We’re going to push them to do an even better job.”
