In Detroit, Lucas Raymond scored in the first period, and Robby Fabbri scored in the second to give the Red Wings i 2-0 lead on Thursday night over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
“Goals are great, so I’m not going to complain about that, but I’m just trying to get my game back into shape,” he said. “Toronto has had our number for a while, so it feels good to get a win.”
Ville Husso made 32 saves in the Detroit win.
The Red Wings improved to 18-15-7.
“This is a really good win for us, because we’ve had a lot of games where we played well at 5-on-5 but didn’t execute on special teams,” Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde said. “Tonight, we played a good game at 5-on-5 and executed on special teams.”
Rasmus Sandin scored for the Leafs in the second period to cut the deficit to 2-1, Auston Matthews set up the goal.
“Auston is one of the best players in the world, if not the best, so we’re obviously better when he’s in the lineup,” Sandin said. “We worked hard tonight to try to make up for it, but he’s got big shoes to fill. If he’s out there tonight, he probably puts in a puck if not two, three or four.”
Toronto dropped to 26-10-7.
“I loved the effort from our team tonight,” Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said. “They came at us really hard and got ahead, but we got it back to 2-1 and fought basically to the end. We just didn’t create enough offense.”
Detroit finally got some breathing room when Ben Chiarot scored an empty-net goal at 18:07 of the third.
Moritz Seider added a late power play strike for the 4-1 final, the goal came with 20 seconds left on the clock.
Ilya Samsonov made 19 saves in the Maple Leafs loss.
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