In Detroit, Lucas Raymond scored a power play goal with eight seconds left in extra time on Tuesday night to give the Red Wings a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.
“When you have a 4-on-3 power play, there’s so much open ice that you can just keep passing the puck to get a better chance,” Raymond said. “[Assistant Alex Tanguay] reminded us to get the puck on the net and make things happen.”
Alex Nedeljkovic made 27 saves in the Detroit win.
“We’ve stumbled out of the gate in the last few games, but I thought we were good tonight from start to finish,” Nedeljkovic said. “Even when they got the first goal, we kept battling, and when we got a couple of bounces, we capitalized.”
The Red Wings improved to 24-24-6.
“We needed to get back to defending as a five-man unit instead of defending five 1-on-1s,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. “We did a much better job of that tonight, and it created some chances for us.”
The Hurricanes fell to 37-11-5.
“We had a couple of weird things go against us tonight, but you have to give the Red Wings credit,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We were pretty average tonight, and they played hard.”
Sebastian Aho scored for Carolina, his strike gave them a 1-0 lead.
Detroit replied with goals from Carter Rowney and Michael Rasmussen for a 2-1 lead.
Jesper Fast and Jordan Staal put the Hurricanes up 3-2 in the third period.
“We had the lead, and the puck just bounces over Skjei’s stick at the end,” Brind’Amour said. “Just a weird play.”
Dylan Larkin forced the extra session when he tied the game less than a minute after the Canes had taken the lead.
Antti Raanta made 37 saves in the Canes loss.
“I told Teuvo that if hehad scored, we would have been on all of the front pages of the Finnish newspapers,” Raanta said. “But they got a couple of good looks and got a bounce at the end. It’s tough to look up and see eight seconds left on the clock. It would have been nice to get to the shootout.”
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