The Detroit Red Wings kept digging Tuesday night, and for a few wild minutes in the third period it looked like they might claw all the way out of a 3-0 hole. They got back to even.
They pushed it to overtime. But Seattle had the last word, and the Kraken outlasted Detroit 4-3 in a shootout to open the Wings’ four-game road trip.
Bobby McMann delivered the deciding blow in the fourth round of the shootout, sealing the extra point for Seattle.
For two periods, the Kraken were in control. Mackie Samoskevich put Seattle on the board first with his fourth goal of the season, beating Daniil Tarasov with a wrist shot placed neatly inside the short-side post. In the second, Seattle stretched the lead on the power play when Ryker Evans jumped on a puck that had skidded into the middle of Detroit’s defensive zone after Michael Rasmussen was checked while trying to clear it up the boards.
Later in the period, the Kraken made it 3-0 on another sequence that started with a lost draw. Andrew Copp was cleanly beaten on a defensive-zone faceoff by Berkly Catton, and Brandon Montour finished it off with a quick snap shot past Tarasov.
Detroit’s response finally arrived early in the third. Viktor Arvidsson used Emmitt Finnie as a screen and blasted a shot high past Philipp Grubauer for his fourth goal of the season. Just 59 seconds later, the Red Wings struck again on the power play, with Lucas Raymond jamming in a rebound for his first goal of the season.
The comeback was complete in the final seconds of regulation. With Tarasov pulled for an extra attacker and Detroit on another power play, Alex DeBrincat buried his sixth goal of the season at 19:43 to force overtime.
Seattle still had chances to end it before the shootout, and Detroit’s best moment came when Vince Dunn turned the puck over and helped set up DeBrincat’s tying goal with 16 seconds left.
Tarasov allowed more than one goal for the first time in three starts for Detroit. Arvidsson’s goal marked his 449th NHL point, and it was his first five-on-five goal of the season after scoring three times on the power play.
DeBrincat continues to drive the Red Wings’ offense, leading the team in goals with six, assists with five and points with 11. The last Detroit player to finish a season leading the club in those three categories was Dylan Larkin, who did it in 2022-23 with 32 goals, 47 assists and 79 points.
Seattle had already beaten Detroit 6-3 on October 9, and since then the Red Wings have gone 2-0-3 during a five-game point streak.
Detroit heads next to Vancouver, where the Red Wings will begin a three-game Western Canadian swing Thursday against the Canucks. Game time is 10 p.m.
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