{"id":385954,"date":"2026-01-02T04:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385954\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:08:14","slug":"penguins-nip-red-wings-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/385954\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins Nip Red Wings in Overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014 Kris Letang marked a milestone with a memorable goal Thursday night, scoring in overtime to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings.<\/p>\n<p>Letang scored in his 1,200th career game, all with Pittsburgh, scoring on a pass from\u00a0longtime Detroit nemesis Sidney\u00a0 Crosby, who scored the first two goals for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Letang\u2019s winning score came 58 seconds into overtime.<\/p>\n<p>By gaining a point in the standings, the Red Wings moved into sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings never led during regulation. They tied the game on a power-play goal by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/det-vs-pit\/2026\/01\/01\/2025020635\/summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex DeBrincat<\/a> with 2:58 left in regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh\u2019s Blake Lezotte broke a 2-2 tie late in the third period\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lezotte banked a shot off Detroit\u2019s Simon Edwinsson with 4:09 left in the third period to give the Penguins the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Crosby\u00a0 scored twice in the first seven minutes of the first period, the first on the power play, while the Red Wings countered with a power-play goal by J<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/det-vs-pit\/2026\/01\/01\/2025020635\/summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ames Van Riemsdyk<\/a> late in the period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/gamecenter\/det-vs-pit\/2026\/01\/01\/2025020635\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Copp<\/a> tied it 1:01 into the second period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DeBrincat\u2019s goal was his first since Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Cam Talbot stopped 26 shots for Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first of three meetings between the teams this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Takeaways<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburtgh\u2019s Erik Karlsoon recorded a p[air of assistsl giving him 900 for his career. ..<\/p>\n<p>Red Wings Key Moment<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings appeared to have scored on a shot by Lucas Raymond midway through the third period after taking a pass from Emmitt Finnie, but the goal was disallowed after replay showed that Finnie was offside.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Red Wings Key Stat<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings had eight power plays, but converted on only two.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Up Next<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings and Penguins play the second half of their home-and-home\u00a0Saturday at noon at Little Caesars Arena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 PITTSBURGH \u2014 Kris Letang marked a milestone with a memorable goal Thursday night, scoring in overtime to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[6017,5339,1511,93,49566,5,4602,4,118,1469,100,5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-385954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-alex-debrincat","9":"tag-andrew-copp","10":"tag-detroit-hockey-now","11":"tag-detroit-red-wings","12":"tag-featiured","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-james-van-riemsdyk","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-penguins","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","19":"tag-pittsburghpenguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115823542543928903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}