Detroit – The Red Wings have hit their first rough patch of the young season.
Artemi Panarin had a goal and two assists and goaltender Jonathan Quick stopped 31 shots Friday as the New York Rangers beat the Wings, 4-1.
The loss was the third in four games for the sliding Wings (9-6-0), who began a four-game homestand.
Panarin and Alexis Lafreniere scored goals 58 seconds apart midway in the third period, extending the Rangers’ (7-6-2) lead to 4-1.
Panarin scored his third goal, at 7:29, after Mika Zibanejad gathered the puck in the corner and fed Panarin alone near the hashmarks for a one-timer. Lafreniere quickly made it 4-1, with his second goal, as Conor Sheary found Lafreniere skating behind the Wings’ defense, and breaking in alone on goaltender Cam Talbot (21 saves).
BOX SCORE: Rangers 4, Red Wings 1
Will Cuylle (power play) and Northville’s Noah Laba scored the other Rangers’ goals.
J.T. Compher scored for the Wings, who were goalless on four power-play opportunities.
Laba broke a 1-1 tie with his third goal at 4:52 of the second period.
Just after a Rangers power play expired, Lafreniere found Laba in the slot and Laba knocked a bouncing puck Talbot, giving the Rangers lead.
Compher tied the game 1-1 with his third goal, in the first period. Linemates Andrew Copp and Mason Appleton did fine work controlling the puck behind the net, and Appleton fed Compher alone near the post, Compher quickly snapping a shot past Quick at 11:06.
Cuylle opened the game’s scoring, on the power play, for the Rangers.
Zibanejad found Cuylle across the slot and Cuylle, on the rush, wristed a shot past Talbot at 6:46, for Cuylle’s third goal.
The Wings host Chicago Sunday at 1 p.m.
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