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- Red Wings
- Updated: Dec. 27, 2025, 9:48 p.m.
- Published: Dec. 27, 2025, 9:44 p.m.
The Detroit Red Wings had an opportunity to return sole possession of first spot successful nan Eastern Conference Sunday, but nan Carolina Hurricanes took nan lead instead.
Carolina scored 3 unanswered goals successful nan 2nd play and outshot nan Red Wings by a wide separator for a 5-2 triumph astatine nan Lenovo Center.
The Hurricanes (23-11-3, 49 points) are unsocial atop nan East. The Red Wings (22-14-3) are 2 points behind, aft having their three-game winning streak snapped successful nan first crippled pursuing nan NHL’s three-day Christmas break.
John Gibson had his career-long eight-game winning streak snapped aft facing 37 shots.
Brandon Bussi, an undrafted 27-year-old rookie, made 18 saves to amended to 12-1-1. He played 3 seasons astatine Western Michigan and 1 twelvemonth for nan USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks.
Former Red Wings defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere and Andrei Svechnikov each contributed a extremity and 2 assists. Gostisbehere has 29 points successful 28 games.
Michael Rasmussen and Andrew Copp scored for Detroit.
Copp’s power-play extremity astatine 3:11 of nan 3rd – he redirected a walk from John Leonard past Bussi – trim Carolina’s lead to 3-2.
But Svechnikov gave nan Hurricanes immoderate breathing room pinch 6:51 remaining. He capitalized connected a turnover successful nan slot by Dylan Larkin, who slipped and fell while circling to walk nan puck.
The Red Wings had a chance to adjacent nan spread pinch a precocious powerfulness play earlier Jordan Martinook sealed nan result pinch an empty-net extremity pinch 1:21 remaining.
The Red Wings big nan Toronto Maple Leafs connected Sunday (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network).
Rasmussen scored nan only extremity of nan first period, his 5th of nan season, astatine 12:39. J.T. Compher stole nan puck from Alexander Nikishin successful nan violative area and group up Rasmussen, who fired a changeable from nan slot past Bussi.
The Hurricanes responded pinch 3 unanswered goals successful nan 2nd period, including a brace 1:15 isolated early successful nan period.
Jackson Blake tied it astatine 3:22 by deflecting successful a changeable from nan bluish statement by Gostisbehere.
Eric Robinson past cleaned up astir nan nett astatine 4:37 during a three-on-two break.
Gostisbehere put Carolina up 3-1 by firing successful a changeable from nan faceoff circle astatine 15:22.
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