In Detroit, the Carolina Hurricanes’ Pyotr Kochetkov made 27 saves in his second straight shutout on Tuesday night for a 1-0 win over the Red Wings.
“It wasn’t our best game, that’s for sure, but our goalie was great,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “He was phenomenal, and I think that’s the biggest takeaway of this stretch. He’s been great.”
Brady Skjei‘s power-play goal late in the first period was all the offense in the game.
“We’ve had a lot of guys stepping up at different times to help get us these points,” Skjei said. “But the goaltending has been huge. We know we didn’t play our best tonight, and we still came away with two points.”
Carolina improved to 16-6-6.
“The doctor came in and said he’s not playing tomorrow; that’s all I know,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “We’ll go from there, but he’s obviously a big piece for a team that has not produced a ton of 5-on-5 offense.”
Detroit dropped to 13-9-6.
Detroit was scoreless in three power play chances.
“It isn’t just goals on the power play, it is definitely about bringing momentum, and I don’t think we did a good enough job of that,” Detroit forward David Perron said. “The first two were definitely not good enough. The third one, we started building something and couldn’t get one.”
Ville Husso made 26 saves in the Wings loss.
You must be logged in to post a comment.