Red Wings have off night, blanked by Islanders, 5-0

Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News on Nov 20, 2025

Published in Hockey

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DETROIT — One team the Red Wings haven't had much of an answer to this season are the New York Islanders.

That's two games now the Wings have faced the Islanders, and haven't been close in either, Thursday losing 5-0.

Completing a seven-game road trip with six victories, the Islanders (12-7-2) rolled to a 2-0 lead in the first periods and never trailed, sending the Wings (12-8-1) to their first regulation-time loss in five games.

The Islanders defeated the Wings, 7-2, earlier in the season on Long Island, and this game was almost equally dominating.

Max Shabanov (two goals, two assists) Calum Ritchie, Mathew Barzal and Bo Horvat scored goals, while goaltender Ilya Sorokin stopped 25 shots for the shutout.

Ritchie and Shabanov, on the fourth line, supplied the Islanders' first-period offense and got New York rolling.

Ritchie opened the scoring with his second goal, the impressive rookie converting a nice feed from Shabanov off a rush at 6:46. Shabanov made it 2-0 after the Islanders won a faceoff, and the puck got worked to Shabanov near the slot at 14:54.

Barzal made it 3-0 at 3:19 of the second period, his seventh goal, capitalizing on some tough forechecking by the Islanders. Horvat extended the lead to 4-0 at 5:04, putting him in a tie with the NHL leaders with his 14th goal, after another Islanders faceoff win.

Shabanov scored his second goal of the game, and third of the season, at 6:52 of the third period with a goal that'll appear on all the highlight segments.

Shabanov split the Wings' defense of Moritz Seider and Simon Edvinsson with some nifty puckhandling, then backhanded a shot past goaltender John Gibson.