The Red Wings settled for one point in the OT loss in Boston

The Red Wings collect points in games, but not the full two.

In the NHL, that hurts a team.

For the second straight year, the Wings went to overtime but were unable to secure a victory as Boston’s Pavel Zacha scored a goal in overtime to give the Bruins a 3-2 win.

On the play, Boston’s David Pastrnak escaped and possibly tripped over Alex DeBrincat – DeBrincat appeared to be holding the stick and may have lost his balance – and got the puck to Zacha, who exchanged passes before Zacha hit a one-on-one at 2 minutes and 15. Timer completed seconds.

The Wings (10-11-4) lost for the ninth time in their last 13 games (4-6-3).

“It’s frustrating because we’re doing good things, we keep scoring and scoring in six of the last eight games, but there are times in our game where we’re playing really well but we’re doing things to ourselves,” coach Derek Lalonde said told reporters after the game. “Two bad penalties in the third period and in the end we lost momentum and at times lost our puck game. I felt like we could have played with more quality to get the two points.”

The Wings’ penalty kill, ranked last in the NHL, continued to struggle. Boston’s Justin Brazeau tied the game at 2-2 in the third period when he deflected Mason Lohrei’s point shot past goaltender Ville Husso at 9:32.

Lucas Raymond scored both of the Wings’ goals, giving them nine goals for the season.

Raymond, who will be announced for Sweden’s 4-nation face-off tournament team on Wednesday, showed how dangerous an offensive threat he is becoming. In a game between two teams that struggle to score, there were few good attacking opportunities. But when Raymond had a chance, he converted.

Raymond scored his ninth and second goal of the game to tie the game at 1-1 early in the third period. Michael Rasmussen found Raymond open in the slot and Raymond fired a shot past Bruins goaltender Joonas Korpisalo at 1 minute, 19 seconds.

Raymond and Boston’s Nikita Zadorov traded goals in the first period.

The Bruins couldn’t clear the puck and the Wings capitalized. Simon Edvinsson took the puck and raised a backhand that flew to Raymond, who fired a shot that bounced off a Bruins player and deflected past Korpisalo at 7:31.

Raymond also reached a career milestone: the goal was his 200th career point and he extended his point streak to eight games.

BOX Score: Bruins 3, Red Wings 2 (OT)

“I have confidence in my game and what I’m doing out there,” Raymond told reporters of the hot streak. “You always want to score goals, but sometimes you can’t.”

Raymond felt the Wings did enough positive things to get a win.

“We played pretty well,” Raymond said. “Played good defense and came up big in big situations. It’s a shame we couldn’t get the two points.”

“We are on the right track. Of course we got a point tonight, but we wanted two.

The Bruins responded quickly after Raymond’s first goal.

Jonatan Berggren was unable to clear the puck and Brad Marchand took control of the puck. Marchand found Zadorov in the high position and Zadorov fired his second goal past Husso at 9:15.

Husso made 32 saves in a good start. With goaltenders Cam Talbot and Alex Lyon both injured and unavailable this week, Husso’s performance was promising.

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The Red Wings settled for one point in the OT loss in Boston

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