After a promising loss to the Blue Jackets to start the season in which a young Wings team was outplayed by Columbus but found a way to get to OT thanks to some carefully-measured aggression, Detroit earned another promising loss to Los Angeles on Sunday by outplaying a team not as good as Columbus and getting a... worse result?
Hey, when expectations are that rookie mistakes are better from actual rookies, you take what you can get. I was hoping to get farther into the season before I had to do one of these for a Red Wings’ mistake rather than doing them for Detroit goals, but to be honest, both of the Wings’ goals in this game were flukey power play tallies and the only other real noticeable plays worth breaking down involved lessons for Michael Rasmussen and Christoffer Ehn in keeping their sticks on the ice around the net-front.