The latter, listed at 6-foot-4 and 197 pounds, held his ground on an early rush by Brad Marchand, who tried to cut inside on the rookie. They drafted Raymond fourth overall in 2020, Seider sixth in 2019. Detroit did bring two of the early candidates for the Calder Trophy: Swedish winger Lucas Raymond (a team-best 5-5-10 in 11 games after scoring Thursday) and German defenseman Moritz Seider (0-9-9, including an assist on Raymond’s score). Larkin, 25, is fourth on the club in scoring (3-5-8 in eight games). The Red Wings (4-5-2) were without captain Dylan Larkin, who missed his second game in a row for what coach Jeff Blashill called personal reasons.

Jeremy Swayman evened his record at 2-2-0, and boosted his goals against (2.28) and save percentage (.900), stopping 14 of 15 shots. “Our schedule will get intense at some point, so that will pay off.” “I don’t think our third periods have been bad necessarily, but we want to make sure we have the juice in our tanks if need be,” Cassidy said. They also focused on conditioning to prepare for the road ahead. They could shoot more (31st in all-situations shot attempts before Thursday, per Natural Stat Trick) and hit the net more. The Bruins spent the week working on power-play puck movement, which has been sluggish (23rd at 15.8 percent prior to Thursday, whose three extra-man goals vaulted them into the top 10). DeBrusk dropped to the ice in pain, though he didn’t miss a shift and the carom off his left leg gave Erik Haula a breakaway.Ĭassidy didn’t see glaring weaknesses to fix in this most recent stretch. John Tlumacki/Globe StaffĭeBrusk hobbled to the dressing room Thursday after blocking a Filip Zadina shot at 13:23 of the second. Connor Clifton collides with Detroit's Carter Rowney in the second period of Thursday's game.

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