Despite Productive Lineup Changes Leading To Numerous Scoring Chances and a Heroic Late Tying Goal Against The Red Wings, The Kings Find Another Way To Lose With Just 4.5 Seconds Left. Photo: Paul Armbruster
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Jimmy Howard did it all for the first 59 minutes Sunday afternoon.
After the Los Angeles Kings struck in the final minute to even the score, the Detroit Red Wings goaltender needed a little help from Jonathan Ericsson to ensure his team a victory.
Ericsson scored with 4.5 seconds remaining and Howard made 45 saves as the Red Wings pulled off a thrilling 3-2 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champions in front of a big crowd at Staples Center and a national-TV audience.
POSTGAME QUOTES
DARRYL SUTTER
“We played a hell of a game again. Disappointing. Remember, I hate to say ‘I told you so,’ but I told you so. Three-two.”
DUSTIN BROWN
“That was probably our best 60 minutes in a long time. Now we’ve got to forget about the last 10 seconds. We’ve got a game tomorrow, and probably, especially in a shortened season we won’t have time to sit here and talk about ‘what-ifs’.”
ANZE KOPITAR
“I would say arguably that was our best game this year. If we play like this, I think there’s a good chance we’re going to win more games than we’re going to lose. It’s a short season and we can’t hang our heads. It sucks for everybody. You can’t look back, you’ve gotta look ahead.”
SIR KEATON ELLERBY III
“It’s always tough jumping into a new team with new systems, and stuff like that, but I thought I caught on and was just trying to play simple tonight. I thought we put in a solid effort tonight. Their goalie made some big saves, kept them in the game. But I think overall we played a really good game. We’ve got to build on that and keep going forward from there.”
JONATHAN ERICSSON
“The funniest thing is actually that one of the linesmen was thanking me after I scored, and he said, ‘Thank you so much, I really had to go pee. I wouldn’t last overtime,’ so that was kind of funny.”
Quotes via Lisa Dillman and Jon Rosen
POSTGAME READING
- Associated Press: Late goal lifts Red Wings to 3-2 win against Kings
- The Sports Network: Ericsson beats the clock, Red Wings beat Kings
- RedWings.com: Datsyuk does it all in Wings’ win
- Detroit Free Press: Ericsson wins it with 4.5 seconds left
- Detroit News: Ericsson’s blast with four seconds left beats Kings
Kings played great today too bad they lost tho..
Was it just me or you were saying NOOOOO on Detroit slow motion goal LOLI was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It really felt like slow motion as the just kind of trickled through JQ’s 5 hole
I doubt you were alone in screaming NOOOOO lol
Well, I hope today extinguished whatever remaining sense of satisfaction the King’s had with their cup win last year. With the amount of talent on our team, winning is really a matter of deciding to do so. Of course, every so often we’re going to run into a goalie having a career night (Howard) but there really is no excuse for 3-5-2 start. Or more importantly, how we looked in those 10 games.
Time to pull our heads out of each others a$$e$ and start caring about this season.
Yet another victim of the SC hangover? If we don’t make the playoffs, people might laugh even harder at the Kings. That’s what’s on the line.
Dude, that picture is pure torture and should be banned forever. Looks like Quick pooped a puck…
I think he did.
Didn’t Quick have 51 saves a couple of seasons ago in Detroit and shutout them out 1-0. I guess turn about is fair. But it really sucks.
That was the game we ended up winning 5 – 0, but it was a 2 – 0 game at the end of the 2nd period. http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2010020441