{"id":548571,"date":"2026-03-20T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:57:09","slug":"debrincat-breaks-tie-late-in-3rd-red-wings-edge-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548571\/","title":{"rendered":"DeBrincat breaks tie late in 3rd, Red Wings edge Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the second straight three-point game for DeBrincat, who had three assists in a 5-2 win against the Calgary Flames on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/j-t-compher-8477456\" title=\"J.T. Compher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.T. Compher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/andrew-copp-8477429\" title=\"Andrew Copp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Copp<\/a> also scored for the Red Wings (38-23-8), who have won two straight after losing five of six (1-3-2). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-gibson-8476434\" title=\"John Gibson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Gibson<\/a> made 32 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit is tied in points with third-place Montreal in the Atlantic Division and is also tied with the Boston Bruins for the two wild cards into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was definitely a playoff atmosphere,\u201d Red Wings coach Todd McLellan said. \u201cOn the ice, there were a lot of competitive battles and emotion, but you could feel it off the ice as well, there was so much energy in the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/juraj-slafkovsky-8483515\" title=\"Juraj Slafkovsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a> scored for the Canadiens (37-21-10), who have lost three of four. Dobes made 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought we played a decent game,\u201d Slafkovsky said. \u201cWe had many opportunities to score more goals than we did, we needed to do it. It was a nice hockey game to play in, but it just stinks we\u2019re not the ones smiling right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montreal coach Martin St. Louis said, \u201cWe were right there despite a lot of bad luck. We played a mature game and we were in control for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slafkovsky put the Canadiens up 1-0 with a power-play goal at 17:45 of the second period. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cole-caufield-8481540\" title=\"Cole Caufield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Caufield<\/a>\u00a0threw the puck on net from the goal line, and Slafkovsky pounced on the rebound to beat Gibson over the left shoulder with a snap shot that went bar down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was the second straight three-point game for DeBrincat, who had three assists in a 5-2 win against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-548571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}