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Live Wings Blog: Fierce battle tied, start of 3rd

The Wings’ Andreas Athanasiou was stopped on a point-blank chance in front of the net by Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop.

Athanasiou, however, drew a penalty when he absorbed a cross-check from Tampa Bay's Jonathan Drouin.

The Wings are on the power play with 17 minutes left in the third period. It’s 2-2.

Spirited period

The Wings unleashed an intense, spirited period.

There were two goals by Mike Green and Justin Abdelkader in a 1:56 span to take a brief lead. Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov scored his second goal of the game to tie it at the 9:29 mark.