For the first time in pre-season, the Detroit Red Wings I did not leave victorious.
Pittsburgh’s Penguins responded to what was a first period of 2-0 with three unanswered goals, including a third-time pair, to win a 3-2 return victory at PPG Pains Arena in downtown Pittsburgh.
The former Red Wings striker Robby Fabbri, who accepted a professional test agreement with the Penguins, established the scoring with a goal from the start of the third period, followed by a Power-Play count by Philip Tomasino who finally got up as the winner of the match.
As they did during their first pre-season competition earlier this week against the Chicago Blackhawks, the Red Wings have frozen a program composed mainly of young players, most of whom will play in minors this season.
A player who will probably spend time with the Grand Rapids griffins, but who does not quite correspond to the “young prospect” label at 27, is John Leonard, a former San Jose Sharks recovery choice signed in a one -year contract of $ 775,000.
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Leonard scored twice for the Red Wings in the first 20 minutes of play, which included skating in the right wing on a partial breakaway and the shooting of a shooter after the goalkeeper Tristan Jarry for the opening of the night.
Leonard knows how to score goals, as he did 36 times last season when he played in 72 games for the Charlotte Checkers, the AHL subsidiary of Florida Panthers.
His second count was a float just inside the blue line which somehow escaped Jarry, which may have been partially projected.
The Red Wings goalkeeper John Gibson, who was born in Pittsburgh, received the start and stopped 13 of the 14 shots with which he was confronted before giving way to Michal Postava halfway through the competition.
Postava, making his second appearance in 24 hours for the Red Wings, was beaten twice over the six strokes he faced.
The Red Wings will now go to play Buffalo Sabers as they did Thursday evening, but this time at the Keybank Center in Buffalo on Saturday afternoon (3:00 p.m.).
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