Detroit — The Purple Wings are out of the blue having a troublesome time profitable a preseason sport.
They misplaced their third consecutive sport Monday, falling 2-1 to the Pittsburgh Penguins at Little Caesars Enviornment.
The Penguins dressed a predominately youthful lineup, minus their potential Corridor of Famers, but just about managed the Wings, who dressed a barely extra veteran lineup.
BOX SCORE: Penguins 2, Red Wings 1
Dominik Shine minimize Pittsburgh’s result in 2-1 with a 3rd interval aim at 16 minutes, 20 seconds, placing in a free puck in entrance of goaltender Tristan Jarry. The Wings had sustained stress within the last two minutes after pulling goaltender John Gibson, however could not get the tying aim.
Ben Kindel and Tommy Novak had Pittsburgh’s objectives and Jarry stopped 22 photographs
Gibson made 20 saves for the Wings.
The Wings fell to 2-3-0 for the exhibition season. They play Tuesday in Chicago, earlier than closing out the preseason with two video games in opposition to Toronto.
The Wings had a two energy performs within the second interval however didn’t convert. The Wings killed each Pittsburgh energy performs within the sport.
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