Red Wings top Maple Leafs 4-2 behind two Petry goals

Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News on Dec 14, 2024

Published in Hockey

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DETROIT — The Red Wings defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday behind an unlikely offensive source.

Defenseman Jeff Petry scored his first two goals of the season, including the tiebreaker in the third period, lifting the Wings to a 4-2 victory in front of a loud and enthusiastic sellout crowd at Little Caesars Arena.

Just after Toronto had tied the score 2-2 on a Matthew Knies redirect goal at 1:07, Petry banged in a rebound of Joe Veleno's shot at 1:51, regaining the lead for the Wings.

Goaltender Ville Husso made it stand, making 24 saves. None was bigger than Husso stopping Mitch Marner on a breakaway with about 12 minutes to play and the Wings holding the 3-2 lead.

Lucas Raymond scored his 12th goal into an empty net with 1.6 seconds left.

The win moved the Wings to 12-14-4 and was their second victory in the last eight games (2-4-2). The Leafs fell to 18-10-2.

Moritz Seider broke a 1-1 tie with just 17.8 seconds left in the second period. The Wings capitalized on a sloppy Leafs breakout, and sprung Patrick Kane carrying the puck down wing. Kane found Andrew Copp with a pass through the slot and Copp saw Seider pinching, Seider slamming his fourth goal through a defenseless goaltender Joseph Woll.

Kane's assist ended a nine-game point drought.

Toronto tied the score earlier in the period on Auston Matthews' power-play goal.

Marner patiently controlled the puck, loosened the Wings' penalty kill, and found Matthews just above the goal line, where Matthews fired his 10th goal at 11:40.

Petry opened the scoring with his first goal of the season. Petry snapped a shot from the point that appeared to deflect off a stick and change direction on Woll at 9:07.

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