Detroit, Mich. — The Detroit Red Wings finally got off the losing track Saturday night, Nov. 14, as goalie Daniil Tarasov stopped all 31 Tampa Bay shots in a 2-0 road win that ended a five-game slide.
The win lifted Detroit to 8-10-3. Tampa Bay fell to 13-5-2 and lost on home ice for the first time this season after an 8-0 start there.
The slump had begun in the same building, with a 4-2 defeat at Tampa Bay on Nov. 3. Tarasov had been winless in four career decisions against the Lightning before this one, and the shutout was his second in nine games with Detroit.
Neither team scored in the first period, when the Lightning outshot Detroit 9-5. Lucas Raymond broke through at 13:12 of the second, taking a feed from defenseman William Wallinder and beating goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy for his eighth goal of the season.
With 43 seconds to play, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard put the puck into a vacant Tampa Bay net to seal it. Raymond finished with a goal and an assist, and Vasilevskiy made 20 saves.
Wallinder was hurt in a knee-on-knee hit early in the third and exited for good; there was no word on his status once the game ended.
Detroit plays its next game Wednesday, Nov. 18, against Boston at 7:30 p.m. at Little Caesars Arena. The date is a milestone: a century earlier, Detroit opened its NHL history with a 2-0 loss to the Bruins.
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