WINGS POST-GAME: TWO WINS IN A ROW!
By Nick Seguin
5 years agoThe Columbus Blue Jackets may have gotten the best of the Red Wings in their season opener, but Detroit got their revenge tonight while visiting the Nationwide Arena. They beat the Blue Jackets by a score of 5-3.
THE HIGHLIGHTS
- The Wings got off to an amazing start, scoring three goals through the first thirteen minutes of play. They were scored by three different young players and two of them are worthy of showing the highlights.
- The first goal was scored by Michael Rasmussen. It was his first career NHL goal and set-up beautifully by Thomas Vanek on the powerplay. Congrats to Ras on the first of many goals.
- The second goal was scored shorthanded by Dylan Larkin. Larkin beat out Seth Jones in a foot race to pot his fifth of the season on a breakaway.
- By the time Anthony Mantha added the third goal at even strength, the Jackets had had enough and pulled Joonas Korpisalo, putting Sergei Bobrovsky between the pipes for the first time in three games.
- Thomas Vanek left the game late in the first period after a knee-on-knee collision in the neutral zone. There was no penalty on the play and he did not return to the game.
- All was mostly going well for the Wings until the third period when they gave up three goals in 11 minutes. The last one was a beauty by Pierre-Luc Dubois who went end-to-end and snuck it right under the bar to beat Howard.
- Tyler Bertuzzi added the game-winner late in the third off a beautiful offensive zone play by Dennis Cholowski. It was Cholowski’s seventh point of the season.
- Larkin added an empty-netter.
FINAL THOUGHT
The Wings are lucky they escaped with this win. That third period collapse was reminiscent of all of last year. They need to start playing a full 60 minutes of hockey if they want to win more consistently.
That being said, this was a huge game for Detroit’s youth movement as a player 25 or under contributed on every single goal.
Finally, while their penalty killing was admirable, the Wings need to cool it on spending time in the box. Five penalties in a game is unnecessary. They are seventh in the league in penalty kill time with an average of 11:32 penalty minutes-per-game. Like I said, too much time in the box.
At least it was a very exciting game and it’s so much fun watching a win! LGRW!
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