St. PAUL– The Detroit Red Wings were unable to secure their 22nd win after scoring the first goal of the game tonight as they were upended by the Minnesota Wild in Grand Casino Arena. The Red Wings found themselves with the lead three separate times tonight but were unable to hold on any of them, leading to an overtime loss to Kirill Kaprizov and the Wild.

The Red Wings sorely missed Simon Edvinsson, who tweaked an injury pre-game and sat out for the night, slotting Travis Hamonic into the lineup.

Next generation giving their all

For all the talk tonight by the broadcast of Patrick Kane’s chase of Mike Modano’s all time points record for American players, it was the young guard (mostly) making up the scoresheet. Lucas Raymond had the Red Wings first two goals tonight. His first came on a power play early in the first period to put the Red Wings up 1-0. Kaprizov and the Wild would answer with one of their own to tie things up before the end of the first frame.

The second period was quieter on the scoring front but saw the teams trading blows and penalties until Raymond broke the tie with a goal off a Red Wings turnover on the boards bench-side, putting himself at 5 points in the last 5 games. Elmer Soderblom and Marco Kasper were notable bright spots for the Red Wings, with Soderblom generating several turnovers in the Minnesota zone using his size and physicality.

However, Minnesota would tie the game up at 2 with a goal just 30 seconds into the third period from Matz Zuccarello, who ended the night with three points.

Upended

While the Red Wings did respond with a tip-in goal from James van Riemsdyk a few minutes later, they were unable to maintain a lead as Zuccarello scored his second goal to re-tie the game at 3 within just a minute of play. Emmitt Finnie, who has been relatively quiet since being demoted from the first line, recorded an assist on van Riemsdyk’s goal.

From there, the Red Wings were unable to retake the lead and seemed somewhat deflated as the Wild took the game to overtime and Kaprizov netted the game winner with an assist from Quinn Hughes 45 seconds into the extra period.

It wasn’t a pretty game from Detroit, who haven’t had a regulation win with Cam Talbot in net in over a month. However, the veteran netminder was probably the biggest reason aside from Raymond the Red Wings were even in the game. Talbot had a sequence on the penalty kill where he made a series of saves that led him so far out of net that it was a miracle the Wild didn’t score in the second period. Talbot may not be winning games for the Red Wings, but the defense certainly needed to step up tonight, and did not.

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The Red Wings play the Winnipeg Jets Saturday night at 7PM on Fan Duel Sports Network.