The Detroit Red Wings offense falls asleep in the 1:4 defeat against the Philadelphia Flyers

PHILADELPHIA – The Detroit Red Wings didn’t make things easy for Cam Talbot in his first game back from injury.

Despite all the talk about building on the offense they showed last game, the Wings instead struggled to get out of their zone again. When they started applying pressure in the third period on Thursday, it was too late and the Philadelphia Flyers cruised to a 4-1 win at the Wells Fargo Center, helped by two unanswered goals.

The Wings (11-14-4) were winless in six of their last seven games, picking up just four points during that span. The idea of using their win in Buffalo on Monday as a building block failed in the second third when the Wings again relied on a weak defense and hardly any offense.

YOUNG TALENT:Why Simon Edvinsson is such a plus for the Red Wings: “Potential through the roof”

Even their power play, a respectable top 10 in the NHL, failed, giving up a shorthanded goal to Scott Laughton early in the third period when Vladimir Tarasenko’s shot bounced off a Flyers defender and Travis Konecny pounced on the loose puck and driving him up ice and firing a puck that Laughton tipped.

Ben Chiarot scored with 3:53 to play in the third period, but Laughton completed a hat trick when he fired into an empty net with 1:07 left – and then added a fourth goal with 12.5 seconds left.

Talbot returns

During warmups, it took Talbot one last time before he was given the green light to return to the start, for the first time since suffering a lower-body injury on December 1st. otherwise he would have supported Ville Husso. It was a busy first period for Talbot, who stopped a dozen shots to go with the seven the Wings sent Aleksei Kolosov’s way. From the latter, Chiarot had a good attempt near the net, and Alex DeBrincat also had a good chance.

Big savings

In the middle of the second period, Talbot saved Matvei Michkov, who demonstrated his speed with a shot from the right circle. The Flyers took the 20-year-old Russian with the seventh overall pick in the 2023 draft. This is his rookie season and with 11 goals on Thursday, he is already a points-per-game player. Soon after, Talbot made back-to-back big saves against Joel Farabee and Sean Couturier.

Sloppy second

Talbot did what he could, but the rest of the team’s sloppy defense was eventually too much, and Laughton scored on a breakaway to make it 13:22. That was part of a barrage that saw the Flyers outscore the Wings 15-4 in the first 15 minutes of the second period. Arguably the best performance the Wings had during this period was when they converted a penalty against Simon Edvinsson; For a team with one of the worst penalty kills in the NHL, that was a positive, even if Talbot needed two saves. The Wings continued to make it difficult for Kolosov, going several minutes without a shot on goal and trailing 29-14 after two periods.

Breaking News

Dellupodisabato

The Detroit Red Wings offense falls asleep in the 1:4 defeat against the Philadelphia Flyers

Leave a Reply Cancel reply