PITTSBURGH \u2013 Snagging a point against a fellow Eastern Conference foe in the second half of their midweek back-to-back set, the Detroit Red Wings dropped a 4-3 overtime decision to the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG Paints Arena on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an important point for us to get,\u201d Red Wings head coach Todd McLellan said. \u201cNot easy playing back-to-back in this League, and especially on the road. So, we\u2019ll take the point and try to find a way to play a little bit better [against the Penguins on Saturday].\u201d<\/p>\n
Goalie Cam Talbot stopped 26 shots for Detroit (24-14-4; 52 points), which moved to 10-7-3 on the road this season. As for netminder Arturs Silovs, he had 24 saves to help Pittsburgh (18-12-9; 45 points) win its third game in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreat resilience,\u201d Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin said. \u201cGreat team battle. Great battle by Talbs to get a point there. They\u2019re a good team in this building and this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detroit found itself in a 2-0 hole before the six-minute mark of the first period, surrendering two goals from Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby in a span of 1:38. The 38-year-old forward fired the puck from long range on the power play \u2013 the Penguins’ first shot of the night — past a screened Talbot at 4:08, then struck again at 5:46 with a wrister from the slot.<\/p>\n
Patrick Kane was hit in the mouth by Tommy Novak at 16:19 — he left the game but returned for the start of the middle frame \u2013 and the Red Wings cashed in on the first part of the four-minute power play when James van Riemsdyk tipped in Marco Kasper\u2019s shot from the top of the right face-off circle to make it 2-1 at 17:46. Earning the secondary helper on van Riemsdyk\u2019s 10th goal of the season was Simon Edvinsson, who has collected five points (one goal, four assists) in his last seven contests.<\/p>\n
\u201cA tough start to the game,\u201d Alex DeBrincat said. \u201cYou never want to go down two. The rest of the period was power plays and not much flow 5-on-5. In the second period, I thought we played a little bit better than the first.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2013 Snagging a point against a fellow Eastern Conference foe in the second half of their midweek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-387087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}