Red Wings open western trip with 3-2 shootout win in Edmonton

Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News on Jan 31, 2025

Published in Hockey

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EDMONTON, Alberta— If the Detroit Red Wings are going to make the playoffs this season, they'll have to become a winning road team the rest of this season.

They started off in good fashion Thursday with a 3-2 shootout win in Edmonton.

Dylan Larkin, who was dominant all over the ice, clinched the shootout win after Lucas Raymond scored in the first round.

Goaltender Alex Lyon stopped 44 shots and then stopped two Oilers in overtime.

Starting Thursday, the Wings have 19 of their final 32 games away from Little Caesars Arena, plus having the toughest schedule in the NHL. But it's not been a factor of late, as the Wings stretched their win streak to four games.

The Wings (25-21-5) continue their road swing Saturday in Calgary.

Michael Rasmussen and Larkin scored second-period goals, erasing a 2-0 Edmonton lead.

Rasmussen scored his eighth goal at 9:59. Elmer Soderblom skated the puck down the middle and found Jonatan Berggren on the wing. Berggren fired a shot toward net that Rasmussen got his stick on driving to the net.

Larkin tied it at a little later, at 11:47. Marco Kasper banked a pass off the boards sending Larkin in alone. Larkin got behind the Oilers defense and snuck a shot past goaltender Stuart Skinner, Larkin's 22nd goal.

Leon Draisaitl (power play) and Jeff Skinner had first-period Edmonton goals.

Draisaitl scored his 36th, one-timing a shot on a puck that hopped over Ben Chiarot's stick and straight onto Draisaitl's stick at the dot. Skinner pushed the lead to 2-0 with his ninth goal. Lyon failed to cover the puck, and the puck squirted out front, where Skinner, all alone, tapped the puck into an empty net.