Red Wings miss playoffs despite 5-4 shootout win over Canadiens

MONTREAL (AP) — The Detroit Purple Wings have been knocked out of playoff competition as soon as once more on Tuesday evening, and it hardly might have come in additional gut-wrenching vogue.

Patrick Kane scored the shootout winner in a 5-4 Detroit win over the Montreal Canadiens of their regular-season finale, finishing a comeback after a dramatic game-tying objective from David Perron with 3.3 seconds left in regulation.

However it didn’t matter.

The Purple Wings entered the evening tied with Washington for the East’s second wild-card spot with 89 factors, however the Capitals held the tiebreaker over Detroit with extra laws wins.

In the meantime, Washington was visiting Philadelphia, and the 87-point Flyers wanted a regulation win and a Detroit regulation loss to maintain their playoff hopes alive.

Simply after the Purple Wings celebrated Perron’s heroic, game-tying objective, the Flyers, not realizing that Detroit had pressured extra time and successfully ended their season anyway, pulled the goalie with three minutes remaining in a 1-1 tie with Washington to try a win in regulation.

T.J. Oshie, nonetheless, rapidly scored into the empty internet to give the Capitals a 2-1 lead, and Washington in the end booked its ticket to the post-season.

“The best way it performed out, you’ll be able to’t even make that up,” Purple Wings coach Derek Lalonde stated.

Daniel Sprong had a objective and an help, whereas Moritz Seider, Joe Veleno and David Perron additionally scored for Detroit (41-32-9). James Reimer stopped 29 pictures for Detroit.

The Purple Wings prevailed in a dramatic 5-4 extra time victory over the Canadiens on residence ice a day earlier.

And regardless of pulling off one other jaw-dropping comeback on Tuesday, Detroit will miss the playoffs for an eighth straight season.

“We simply wouldn’t go away, we wouldn’t die. Comeback after comeback,” stated Dylan Larkin, who added the Purple Wings came upon they’d be packing their luggage for the low season earlier than the shootout.

“To listen to the best way it went down, I suppose, that stings. Our group, very resilient, got here again within the recreation and you understand, it’s simply very unlucky.”

Brendan Gallagher and Juraj Slafkovsky had a objective and an help, whereas Alex Newhook and Cole Caufield additionally scored for Montreal (30-36-16). Cayden Primeau made 36 saves.

Canadiens followers acquired a primary glimpse of some up-and-coming blueliners within the group. Logan Mailloux made his NHL debut after spending all the season with the American Hockey League’s Laval Rocket. The 21-year-old produced one help for his first NHL level.

In the meantime, 20-year-old Lane Hutson confirmed his strikes, obtained loud applause and produced an important help enjoying on the Bell Centre for the primary time. He debuted Monday in Detroit, the place he earned one help.

“The group was superior … I form of feed off of it,” Hutson stated. “It’s actually cool. I imply they’re some good followers. They know when a play can occur and also you hear all of it recreation, so it’s actually particular.”

Down 3-2 after 40 minutes, the Purple Wings tied the sport 3:31 into the third interval with a shot from behind the online that banked off Primeau’s pads and into the online.

Slafkovsky put Montreal again forward along with his twentieth of the season, deflecting a degree shot from Hutson at 12:46.

With Detroit’s season on the road and the goalie pulled, Perron equalized with a one-timer off an offensive zone draw after a questionable icing name went in opposition to Montreal with seven seconds left.

It stored the Purple Wings’ season alive, solely momentarily.

“It’s loopy, it stings quite a bit clearly,” Perron stated. “From going to take a look at the clock, there’s seven seconds, after which scoring that objective after which coming again to the bench, you form of hear (we’re out) not too lengthy after that.

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