Tampa Bay Lightning vs Detroit Red Wings Match Player Stats On Jan 21, 2024

Alex Lyon made 27 saves to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 2-1 win over the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning on Sunday night.

Lucas Raymond and Daniel Sprong each scored a goal for the Red Wings, who are 7-1-1 in their past nine games.

Victor Hedman scored the lone goal for Tampa Bay, which saw a five-game winning streak come to an end.

Detroit took a 2-1 lead with 11:02 left in the second period on a goal by Sprong, who picked up a loose puck at center ice, skated in all alone on the Lightning goal and beat Andrei Vasilevskiy (33 saves) to the glove side.

The game remained that way until Tampa Bay pulled Vasilevskiy with just over 1:30 left. The Lightning then had a six-on-four situation with 12 seconds remaining after a delay-of-game penalty on Detroit's Jeff Petry.

But the Lightning couldn't get the equalizer before time ran out.

Detroit outshot Tampa Bay 31-10 through two periods, but the Lightning got the first 13 shots of the third and ended up outshooting the Red Wings 18-4 in the final period.

For the game, Detroit held a 35-28 shot advantage.

Tampa Bay opened the scoring with 11:15 remaining in the first period on a goal by Hedman, who took a pass from Nikita Kucherov and one-timed a shot from the right faceoff circle past Lyon.

Detroit tied the game at 1-1 with 1:31 left in the first when Raymond fired a shot from in between the faceoff circles that trickled past Vasilevskiy.

The Lightning finished the game 0-for-3 on the power play, while Detroit couldn't score on its two chances with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay blocked 16 shots to nine for Detroit, while the Red Wings had 15 hits to 12 for the Lightning.

--Field Level Media