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Wings cough up lead 18 seconds into the 2nd.

2nd round pick Albert Johansson with the Wings’ only shot through the first 15 minutes which thankfully is the game’s only goal so far.

She downed that like a seasoned vet.

Oliver Kapanen, the last pick of the 2nd round (#64) by the Habs in 2021 (#36 Shai Buium and #70 Carter Mazur's draft) scored the winner in the shootout tonight to get Montreal to 100 points on the season. He has 22G 15A 37Pts in 76 games, most goals by the rookie in the NHL this year.

Wings, Sens, Jackets and Isles all lose in regulation. Philly is off today. Suddenly it’s a turtle race.

And even more specific, outside of top 6 overall picks in round one … Apart from Finnie (and the departed Soderblom), the only pick to have really outperformed his draft position is Seider at #6. Raymond and Edvinsson are both good picks but not much better if at all than what you’d expect from #4 and #6 overall. I think ASP still has potential to outperform #17 overall. Apart from that, jury is out to say the least. Cossa (#15, 2021j is being passed, not only by Wallstedt but Montreal’s duo of Dobes (5th round, 2020) and Fowler (3rd round, 2023) and Toronto’s Hildeby (4th round, 2022).

Yes, Owen Tippett of the Flyers had one against the Wings last Saturday.

I was only listening on the radio but here is the video which you have already seen.

Guess which team now has the longest playoff drought?

Perron finally gets his first point, a goal, since being acquired by the Wongs at the deadline, lol.

Mighty Gabe Perreault with the natural hat trick. He was drafted #23 in the 2023 draft in which Danielson was drafted #9.

The Wings have won two straight only once since January 19.

3-0. That should do it.

Within the Wings’ past 6 games, there have been four stinkers in which they fell behind Ottawa 3-0 at home, fell behind Philly 4-0 at home, fell behind Pittsburgh 3-0 and have fallen behind the East’ bottom-dwelling NYR 2-0.

Pathetic. NYR makes it 2-0, making it look easy.

Second Wings powerplay of the game, so far as ineffective as the first one.

ABC crew making much of the fact, for good reason, that the Wings are 30th in 5 on 5 goals. NYR looks like a bigger threat to make it 2-0 than for the Wings to tie it 1-1.

Jack keeps his no-hitter and shutout intact through 2 innings.

Strong 150 ft rush by Larkin but results in a shot wide.

Emily Kaplan says Faulk is day to day

Another underwhelming 1st period for the Wings. 1-0 Rangers. Raymond scared to shoot.

ASP up, and in for Faulk.

On a points percentage basis, the Sens and Wings are 7th and 8th in the East. But only one of the two can make it, given the limit of 5 playoff teams per division, and the Sens have a virtually insurmountable 32-28 lead in the Regulation Wins tiebreaker. The Sens play 5 of their final 7 games at home, the Wings play 4 of their final 7 games at home. The Sens' defense is banged up and depleted but so far the Sens have held it together on the scoreboard. Bottom line: the Wings have to play one point better than the Sens the rest of the way PLUS Finish behind no more than one of NYI, Columbus, Philly. Philly leads NYI 3-0 tonight and can pull back into a points tie with the Wings with a win BUT with one fewer game remaining than the Wings and the Wings have the Regulation Wins tiebreaker over Philly locked up, 29-23. NYI is 1 pt up on the Wings BUT with one fewer game remaining than the Wings, two fewer after tonight's game. Columbus is tied with the Wings BUT with one fewer game remaining than the Wings and the Wings have a decent tiebreaker lead over Columbus, 29-27.