Red Wings' skid hit six with loss to Avs
The official game recap Detroit Red Wings vs Colorado Avalanche.Nate MacKinnon, Matt Duchene and Jarome Iginla scored in a nine-round shootout to give the Colorado Avalanche a 2-1 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena on Sunday.
Erik Johnson scored for Colorado (12-13-8), and goalie Calvin Pickard made 34 saves through overtime.
It was Detroit's sixth consecutive loss. Pavel Datsyuk scored for the Red Wings (17-9-8), who fell to 1-7 in shootouts this season. Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar scored in the shootout. Petr Mrazek made 22 saves.
Johnson's power-play goal tied it with 4:15 left in the third period on a one-timer from the top of the left circle. It came 10 seconds after Tomas Jurco went off for interference in the offensive zone.
Datsyuk scored the game's first goal 4:52 into the third period. On a power play, Datsyuk beat Pickard with a wrist shot from the high inside area of the right circle, after taking a cross slot pass from center Riley Sheahan. It was Datsyuk's 13th goal and the Red Wings' first in 95:03.
The goal came 42 seconds after Avalanche defenseman Nate Guenin went off for tripping. Pickard stopped defenseman Niklas Kronwall's tip attempt from the bottom of the left circle 1:33 into the third period. It came off a spinning blind pass from Datsyuk from inside the blue line.
Pickard stopped Tatar from the slot after the latter pulled up on the rush with 5:25 remaining in the second period.
Red Wings defenseman Brendan Smith got a bloody lip after a puck deflected up off his stick and Iginla's stick midway through the second.
The Avalanche killed off a four-minute shorthanded situation that began in the first period and ended 34 seconds into the second. It was the result of Maxime Talbot's high stick to Kronwall's face.
Pickard made an outstanding glove save on Datsyuk's wrist shot from the upper inside edge of the right circle late in the first period during a power play. The shot appeared headed for the short-side corner up high.
Detroit outshot Colorado 10-5 in the first period.
-- by Paul Harris for NHL.com --
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22/12/2014 - 03:15
