The Vancouver Canucks allowed three goals in just under a 6 minute span in the third period to lose 5-4 to the Detroit Red Wings Tuesday night. Jason Williams scored the winner on the powerplay with 5:03 left in the final frame to put the game away.
Henrik Sedin and Christian Ehrhoff scored softies in the first ten minutes to chase Wings starter Chris Osgood. Jimmy Howard entered the game and earned the win for Detroit who improved to 4-4-2 on the season. Henrik scored his 2nd of the game and Mathieu Schneider with his 1st as a Canuck, completed the scoring for Vancouver, while Pavel Datsyuk with his 1st and 2nd goal of the year, Tomas Holmstrom and Niklas Kronwall scored for the Red Wings.
Our take: Even though they struggled out of the gate, the Detroit Red Wings are still a dangerous team, and they proved that against a Canucks team that once again got outplayed for the majority of the game. You can get away with it against a team like the Leafs, but the Wings will (and did) exploit you if you bring a lackluster effort.
Vancouver were lucky to even be ahead off the bat as Chris Osgood let in two dirty, dirty goals to give the Canucks an early 2-0 lead. Roberto Luongo was solid in net, but it wasn't enough as they were outworked, outclassed and outplayed by a better Detroit Club.
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