PHILADELPHIA — Not only exceeding both their win and point totals from the entire 2024-25 campaign, but the Detroit Red Wings also — most importantly — kept pace in the crowded race for the Eastern Conference\u2019s second Wild-Card spot with a crucial 4-2 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think right from the start, we played hard,\u201d said Alex DeBrincat, who scored two goals for his seventh multi-goal game and 22nd multi-point performance of the season. \u201cWe matched their physicality and intensity. I thought we played pretty well for the whole game. Obviously, third period, they came on us a little bit and it took us a little bit to settle in to that speed. But, overall, right after their goal we score another one and get a big two points.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goalie John Gibson made his 13th straight start and had 32 saves, including a point-blank one on Luke Glendening\u2019s breakaway chance early in the opening frame, for Detroit (40-27-8; 88 points). As for netminder Samuel Ersson, he turned aside 15 shots for Philadelphia (37-26-12; 86 points).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a great, great effort,\u201d said Patrick Kane, who recorded a goal and two assists for his 13th multi-point contest and second three-point showing of the campaign. \u201cObviously, right from the beginning of the game, we knew it was going to be a tough road game. It\u2019s hockey, right? Nothing\u2019s going to go perfect throughout the game, whether it\u2019s them tying it up or pressuring us there in the third. We knew we had to have some momentum shifts go the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0A tripping call on Sean Couturier against captain Dylan Larkin gave the Red Wings their second power play of the night with 1:28 left in the first period, and it didn\u2019t take the long to make it count — just 17 seconds — as DeBrincat accepted Kane\u2019s centering feed and beat Ersson with a snap shot to the glove side for the 1-0 lead. Moritz Seider picked up a secondary assist on DeBrincat\u2019s first of the night, giving the German blueliner seven helpers in his last six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA — Not only exceeding both their win and point totals from the entire 2024-25 campaign, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-538124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-detroit","9":"tag-detroit-red-wings","10":"tag-detroitredwings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-red-wings","14":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538124","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=538124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}