Their power play re-ignited, fanning an overall offensive outburst in a rough-and-tumble, penalty filled match.
The Detroit Red Wings rallied twice against the Boston Bruins on Saturday before a lively crowd at Little Caesars Arena, then took over the game in the third period. A two-man power play with 1:12 left helped the Wings hold on to win, 5-4, handing the Bruins their first regulation loss of the season in 11 games.
Lucas Raymond and Jake Walman scored power play goals to even it after the Bruins had taken a 2-0 lead. Raymond set up Dylan Larkin’s goal at 6:50 of the third period — another tying score — and when David Perron scored at 8:56, it gave the Wings their first lead of the game. Andrew Copp padded it at 10:34. Copp was in the box when David Pastrnak scored on the Bruins’ fourth power play. The Bruins had just pulled their goaltender when Pastrnak was called for a penalty with 1:28 to play, eliminating the extra-skater advantage. The Bruins were also assessed an abuse of officials penalty late at 18:48, and Larkin and Hampus Lindholm received 10-minute misconduct penalties in the final seconds as the game deteriorated into scrums.
The Wings (7-4-1) avenged their 4-1 loss Oct. 28 in Boston. The teams meet again Nov. 25 in Boston.
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Bruins grab lead
James van Riemsdyk scored 5:21 into the first period. Goalie Ville Husso attemped to glove the original shot but the puck slid out from under him and van Riemsdyk got to it before any Wing could. The Wings got a power play a minute and a half later but managed just one shot on reigning Vezina Trophy winner Linus Ullmark. The Wings fell further behind when 2022 second-round pick Matthew Poitras was able to drive to the net unfettered by any defenders and score on Husso, making it 2-0 at 9:28.
Power play outage ends
One of the main changes made to re-ignite a power play that had gone scoreless the previous four games was to put Raymond on the first unit. The adjustment paid off at 15:46 of the first period, when Raymond took a pass from Perron and scored on a wrist shot from the right circle. It was Raymond’s first power play goal of the season.
That’s two
Walman one-timed a pass from Moritz Seider to even it in the second — the scoreboard clock said 10:00 but the NHL credited it as being scored at 9:59, so it just squeezed in as a power play goal — after Mason Lohrei was called for boarding Michael Rasmussen at the eight-minute mark. That was the ninth penalty of the game, and the fifth on the Bruins. The even score didn’t last long. Charlie Coyle carried the puck into Detroit’s zone and passed to Jake DeBrusk, who took the puck to the middle and found Coyle down low, where he redirected it into the net before Husso could close the gap. Olli Määttä got caught out of position, watching the play from his own blue line. Walman took a tripping penalty at two minutes later, putting the Wings shorthanded a third time.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Red Wings score 3 goals in 3rd period to beat Boston, 5-4
