San Jose Monday night’s back-and-forth 5-4 overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center marked the end of the Detroit Red Wings’ four-game road trip.
After a 1-2-1 trip, the Red Wings (7-9-2; 16 points) gained a point and are returning to Detroit thanks to goalie Cam Talbot’s 29 saves. The Sharks (6-10-4; 16 points) will visit Little Caesars Arena on January 14 for the season series finale, and netminder Mackenzie Blackwood ended with 16 saves.
Derek Lalonde, the head coach of the Red Wings, stated, “I give our guys some credit to hang in there.” When their momentum was waning in the third [period], [Talbot] made some crucial stops there. To give us a point, we got that goal late.
For the eleventh time this season that the team has lit the light,
At 10:28 in the first period, William Eklund’s power-play goal leveled the score at one. Alexander Wennberg’s first attempt was blocked by Talbot, but Eklund sneaked the rebound past to tie the score.
After a point shot by Eric Gustafsson, Marco Kasper cleaned up a rebound from the outside of the right face-off circle to give Detroit the lead again shortly before the first half. At 18:48 of the first quarter, the score was 2-1. On Kasper’s second NHL goal in his career, Vladimir Tarasenko received the secondary assist.
“We were good during the first period,” Larkin remarked. We had some o-zone time after a shot scramble, but it faded once again. didn’t keep it going for an hour, but they did.After a fast feed from Simon Edvinsson, Dylan Larkin, the Red Wings’ captain, put the team ahead 1-0 at 7:28 of the first period with a backhand shot.
