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Red Wings beat Sharks 4–3 in a shootout: the late comeback, overtime kill and Raymond finish
Detroit erased a 3–1 third-period deficit, tied the game with 1:33 left, killed an overtime penalty and won when Lucas Raymond supplied the shootout’s only goal.
Detroit beat San Jose 4–3 in a shootout on October 17 after turning a 3–1 third-period deficit into a tie. Alex DeBrincat forced overtime with 1:33 left, Detroit survived an overtime penalty, and Lucas Raymond scored the shootout’s only goal.
San Jose built the two-goal cushion
Justin Faulk put Detroit ahead on a first-period power play, but Dmitry Orlov answered for San Jose before the break. Macklin Celebrini then converted a Detroit-zone turnover at 4:55 of the second period to make it 2–1.
Ivar Stenberg finished an Alexander Wennberg feed 2:48 into the third period for a 3–1 Sharks lead. Celebrini finished with a goal and two assists, while Stenberg had a goal and an assist.
Finnie and DeBrincat erased the deficit
Emmitt Finnie answered a little more than two minutes after Stenberg’s goal, tapping in a Michael Brandsegg-Nygard attempt and cutting the deficit to 3–2.
With Detroit’s goalie pulled, DeBrincat tipped the puck in during a net-front scramble with 1:33 remaining. That goal tied the game 3–3 and sent it to overtime.
The overtime penalty became the next test
Detroit took an Andrew Copp penalty in overtime and had to complete the kill to reach a shootout. No overtime goal was scored.
That sequence matters because the comeback did not end with DeBrincat’s equalizer: Detroit still had to survive a short-handed stretch before the skills competition.
Raymond supplied the only shootout goal
Lucas Raymond converted the only goal of the shootout. That made the official final 4–3 for Detroit and gave the Red Wings consecutive wins.
The fixed result is a shootout win, not a four-goal regulation performance: the shootout conversion decides the standings score but is not recorded as an individual regulation goal.
One statistic should be handled cautiously
The Reuters/Field Level Media recap listed 31 saves for John Gibson and 24 for Alex Nedeljkovic. The Associated Press recap carried by CBS listed 32 and 25.
Because the contemporary reports differ by one save for each goalie, this article does not use those totals as a key fact. The score, scoring sequence, tying time, overtime penalty kill and lone shootout conversion agree across the reviewed accounts.
