The game between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins will take place at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday, April 8 at 1:00 PM ET.
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The Detroit Red Wings will welcome the Pittsburgh Penguins to Little Caesars Arena for an NHL game on Saturday. The Detroit Red Wings lost 6-7 in their last game over the Sabres. Larkin, Austin Czarnik, Alex Chiasson, Simon Edvinsson, Jonatan Berggren and David Perron scored in regulation for the Red Wings. Lucas Raymond scored the only shootout goal for Detroit, and Ville Husso made 30 saves. But with Florida and the New York Islanders winning Thursday night, the Red Wings were eliminated from playoff contention.
“This team could have easily — and maybe should have — just quit,” Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde said. “They actually went the other way. That’s points in five of our last six and we’re going through playoff teams, teams that are playing for their lives and a couple of the best teams in the league. “That’s a credit to the guys and I think it’s very important going into next year.” Larkin’s goal was his 32nd, tying his career high, originally set in the 2018-19 season.
“I think there’s certainly more hope for next season,” Larkin said. “Again, tonight’s game we had the message where we’re gonna be battling with these guys. We weren’t good against them this year, but tonight was certainly better. It was certainly a better battle level. We were much more engaged tonight.”
The Pittsburgh Penguins on the other hand won 4-1 against the Wilds in their last game. The pregame hype video that plays inside PPG Paints Arena before every Pittsburgh Penguins home game starts with the lyrics: “Nobody said it would be easy.” A prophetic choice for a team for which things used to come so easily. Dazzling goals. Victories. Playoff berths. Stanley Cups.
Not anymore. Not for this team. Not during this trying season, anyway. Yet with their postseason hopes flickering, the Penguins responded with the kind of responsible, selfless borderline boring hockey they’ll need to rely on if they want to reach the playoffs for a 17th straight year.
Tristan Jarry stopped 27 shots, Kris Letang scored at the expense of good friend Marc-Andre Fleury and the Penguins kept pace in the chase for the Eastern Conference’s two wild-card spots with a 4-1 win over Minnesota on Thursday night. The Penguins bounced back from a miserable performance in a loss to New Jersey on Tuesday by putting together three complete periods, a rarity for most of the last three months.
“If you look at the last game, we didn’t have a start at all,” Letang said. “We never really gave ourselves a chance in Jersey and tonight we started really well. It sets (us) up for success.” Pittsburgh’s second victory in three games kept it one point behind the Florida Panthers and New York Islanders, who both won easily Thursday. All three teams have three contests remaining.
Lucas Raymond – Jonatan Berggren – Dylan Larkin
Moritz Seider – Alex Chiasson – Austin Czarnik
Simon Edvinsson – Matt Luff – David Perron
Jake Walman – Ben Chiarot
Andrew Copp – Adam Erne
Ville Husso – Dominik Kubalik
Olli Määttä – Jordan Oesterle
Pius Suter
Joseph Veleno
Brian Dumoulin – Jake Guentzel – Kris Letang
Rickard Rakell – Jeff Carter – Evgeni Malkin
Drew O’Connor – Jason Zucker – Josh Archibald
Sidney Crosby – Mark Friedman
Mikael Granlund – Danton Heinen
Tristan Jarry – Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Jeff Petry – Ryan Poehling
Bryan Rust
Jan Rutta
Detroit Red Wings: Marco Kasper, Filip Zadina, Robby Fabbri, Michael Rasmussen, Mark Pysyk
Pittsburgh Penguins: Dmitry Kulikov, Nick Bonino, Marcus Pettersson
The game between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins will take place at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday, April 8 at 1:00 PM ET.
The match between the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins will be telecast live on ESPN+, ABC.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | ESPN+, ABC. | April 8 (1:00 PM ET) |
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