{"id":540838,"date":"2026-04-04T20:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540838\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:06:26","slug":"red-wings-fall-to-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540838\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wings Fall to Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Red Wings had a chance to enhance their playoff chances on Saturday, but again came up short at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings lost to the last-place New York Rangers, 4-1, hampering their playoff hopes.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit went into the game tied with Ottawa, Columbus and Philadelphia with 88 points.<\/p>\n<p>Philly was idle Saturday, Columbus played Saturday night and Ottawa lost to Minnesota in a day game.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game started like too many have for the Red Wings down the stretch. The Rangers came out and shut down the Red Wings, scoring a goal in each period.<\/p>\n<p>David Perron got the Red Wings on the board by scoring with 32 seconds left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Gibson, starting his 14th consecutive game, stopped 17 of 20 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Gabe Perreault had a hat trick for the Rangers,<\/p>\n<p>Red Wings Takeaways<\/p>\n<p>If or when the Red Wings miss the playoffs, this game will stand outy as a missed opportunity, The upcoming homestand likely consist of four must-win games, a challenge the Red Wings haven\u2019t been able to meet for the last month.<\/p>\n<p>Key Moment<\/p>\n<p>Perreault\u2019s second goal came seconds after <a href=\"http:\/\/j.tl\" rel=\"nofollow\">J.T<\/a>. Compher\u2019s shot at the other end of the rink hit a goalpost. That Rangers score made it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Key Stat<\/p>\n<p>The Rangers\u2019 win clinched playoff berths for Tampa Bay and Buffalo. It ended a 14-year playoff drought for the Sabres. That leaves the Red Wings, at nine seasons, with the longest current playoff drought in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>Tbe Red Wings begin the final homestand Sunday against the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings had a chance to enhance their playoff chances on Saturday, but again came up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[831,1511,93,5,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-540838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-david-perron","9":"tag-detroit-hockey-now","10":"tag-detroit-red-wings","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-new-york-rangers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116348243008034698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540838","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=540838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}