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Raymond misses his chance to win it, Macklin Celebrini didn’t miss his. 5-4 loss

Off to overtime. Wings outshot by San Jose 33-19.

DeBrincat ties it. 4-4 with 2:02 to go. Would another Wings goal give Lalonde a reprieve?

Wings with a last gasp powerplay with 3:26 to go.

Sharks take the lead. Just 14 minutes to salvage a disastrous West Coast trip.

Paul Woods said that “both teams are playing at a high level”. I’m not watching, but somehow I doubt that. 3-3 after 2. The Wings have taken the lead 3 times, blown the lead 3 times.

With road wins over AFC South leading Houston (7-4), NFC West leading Arizona (6-4), Minnesota (8-2) and Green Bay (7-3). Plus Dallas, lol

Leading 2-1 after 1 in a late goal by Kasper.

Conference basement.

The hangover effect after playing the Lions is nullified by playing Dallas your next game. 14-0 Texans late in the first.

It’s hard to find positive Wings news to post so there’s this …haha, Abby hauled them right up.

For sure. And the network pundits on Monday morning. "They're the class in the National Football League, that's what they are. They are the best team in the NFL, the Detroit Lions. They have made 100% a reality what the coach said when he first introduced himself ...smart, stout, relentless, heartless. How many times have the Lions been curb-stomped in their time? They are absolutely taking decades of curb-stomping and throwing it back at the NFL".

Slightly off topic, but speaking of coaches, seems like Jesse Minter has done a great job with Harbaugh with the Chargers. The Chargers are comfortably in a playoff spot after going 5-12 last year.

And sounds from others like the "#7 offense" remark I heard might have been based on yardage. For scoring, Lions are #1 now in Points For, with the three teams below them all having played an extra game. 4th best now in Points Against, behind the Chargers Steelers Vikings, or 5th best when you consider that Denver has given up 6 more points but has played one more game.

Chiefs run out of their 9 lives. Lions will be the consensus #1 in all the power rankings this week.

9th win clinches winning season, which means 3 straight winning seasons for only the second time since 1972. The other time being 1993-1995.

Terrible ref call of unnecessary roughness after the Titans appeared to have stopped the Vikings on 4th and goal. Announcer called it “textbook defense”.

How are the Lions only the #7 offense in the NFL? Seem way more prolific than that.

Between the ball being placed at the 30 and kickers increasingly hitting 55-60 yard kicks, FG drives aren’t what they used to be.

That sounds like the Oilers' front office for years and years from around 2000 onwards. Lowe and Mactavish as GMs, other hangers-on within.

Larkin scores a meaningless goal with a couple of minutes to go and the Wings fall 4-1. Looking like a lottery contender.

How many games out of their 17 after tonight had the Wings outshot the opponent? Maybe 3?

Looked like the Wings were going to make it to the 1st intermission scoreless in LA, but 2 goals 20 seconds and it is 2-0 Kings after 1.

I’m not opposed to firing the coach - in fact I was open to during the shocking collapse last March - but not sure it would make much difference. I don’t see oodles of talent on this roster waiting to be unlocked. Lalonde was a Yzerman hire and firing him would be an admission that the Yzerplan isn’t exactly going as planned.

Two unpleasant things to look at that I never asked for last night: