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Penguins stun Wings 7-6 OT
By TonyH | November 12, 2008
Todays Red Wings Headlines
Red Wings give a game away
“I did that against New Jersey,” Hossa told me earlier this week. “Their defenseman (Colin White) was under pressure and I yelled, ‘Whitey, Whitey!’ and he sends me the puck behind the net.”
Really?
“Yeah. Right on the tape.”
Hmm. I was only joking. But after watching the debacle at Joe Louis Arena on Tuesday night, maybe Detroit should have tried it. Hossa’s first game against his old team, on paper, wasn’t supposed to be that close. from the Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press
Staal scored three goals in the final 11:51 of the third period to key the Penguins’ comeback.
His tying goal came with 22.8 seconds remaining when he located a rebound in the slot after a slap shot from the point hit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom in the chest.
“You can’t give up seven goals and expect to win,” Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “We had this game. That game has to be over (after regaining a two-goal lead with 10:14 left).
“Losing games is one thing, but the way you’re doing it drives you crazy. We can’t let that happen.”
The Penguins had won in similar dramatic fashion the last time they were in Detroit for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals. and this from Dave Dye of the Detroit News
“The turnovers are something we can’t have,” Babcock said. “And the soft plays with the puck, it can’t always be a tape-to-tape pass in this business. Once in a while, you just got to lay it ahead or get it behind the D. In the third period, once they scored, we were unwilling to do that.”
The turning point was Evgeni Malkin’s goal during a five-on-three power play at 6:57 of the third — the sixth goal Detroit has allowed this season while short two men — which cut the Penguins’ deficit to 5-3.
Staal further tightened it with his first goal at 8:09. But the Red Wings responded with Jiri Hudler’s goal at 10:14.
After that, however, it was all Pittsburgh. Staal blasted in a shot from the slot through traffic at 15:51 and scored the tying goal, after the Penguins pulled goalie Marc-Andre Fleury for the extra skater, by banging in the puck during a scramble in front of the net. Ansar Khan of MLive wrote this article