The Red Wings totally made up for their rough loss Tuesday capping a big victory at the PPG Paints Arena. Detroit held off the Pittsburgh Penguins in the late stages of the game winning 5-2 on Wednesday night. Jared Coreau scored a big victory stopping 30 of 32 in what was a complete game for the 24 year old
With three games left in the preseason, the Red Wings need to put up a strong showing against the Penguins who are one of their biggest rivals in recent memory. Detroit has been dealing with a full week that led to their 6-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday. With the match against Pittsburgh playing as their second of three back to back, the Red Wings had to prove themselves to be strong opponent even away from home.
They held the Penguins to a pair of goals in their 4-2 win. With a new name and the home advantage weighing heavily for the Stanley Cup champions, they had the most to accomplish on ice.
Things were tight for both teams with Pittsburgh taking a stance on shots to the net. They gained a slight advantage but fell at the wrong moment. A shift change for the Red Wings turned into a good move to take control of the puck. It was there that Gustav Nyquist made a push for the Pittsburgh net with Marc-Andre Fleury in goal. The Red Wings took time to move the puck around before a shot that Ryan Sproul took ended near the pads of Fleury leaving the net wide open for Nyquist to score.
They made it 2-0 later in the period playing their first power play to their best. Tyler Bertuzzi earned credit for the goal shoving the puck on his move toward Fleury. Detroit outshot Pittsburgh 9-5 with an improvement on offense that boost them further against some of the best Penguins who had only taken a shot in the last several minutes. The period came to an end with Detroit on a mission to show their strength in all their lines for a 12-6 run.
The Red Wings consolidated their success in the first and took off with a rush of offense to begin the second. They quickly gained time and shots on the Pittsburgh net but Fleury did everything to stop them from scoring anything further. The Penguins worked to get something going and got lucky on a shot from Carter Rowney who fired the puck watching it redirect off the stick of Detroit’s Riley Sheahan.
The lucky break allowed them to gain leverage to their benefit leveling with Detroit with eight shots apiece. The score was tied eight minutes later with the Penguins finding the Red Wings vulnerable on the power play. Pittsburgh was shorthanded with Kris Letang scoring a great one behind Coreau that looked to level the playing field.
Detroit had other ideas and regained the lead just a minute later with a three man passing play in front of Fleury ending with Martin Frk scoring his second. Detroit returned to a two goal margin with Matta putting too much screen in front of the Penguins goalie that allowed Defenseman Brendan Smith’s shot to go in the net.
Detroit had everything going for them in the third and made sure to keep things tight for Pittsburgh while taking every chance to increase the gap. The Penguins showed plenty of want for the game to be closer on the scoreboard but failed to get anything done on two power play chances given up by Detroit.
Time ran out for Pittsburgh still sitting down two goals on the Red Wings. Pittsburgh went for the empty net but couldn’t get much done even when they had a 6 on 4 advantage. An easy steal for Detroit gave Steve Ott a chance to skate away with the puck and score an empty netter to win the game 5-2. Coreau picked up his first complete game win with a .938 save percentage. He and the Red Wings would celebrate the win before prepping for a final back to back series against the Toronto Maple Leafs beginning Friday.
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