Lucas Raymond smashed his stick in frustration after the Red Wings fell 5-4 to the Panthers in Florida on Thursday night.
It was a rough ending for a Detroit team that scored four times on the road and still left with nothing. Raymond did his share, too.
A fan on X asked whether anyone else noticed the moment.
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The reaction makes sense once you look at how the night went. Raymond scored, put three shots on goal and played 19:26, and the Red Wings still came up one goal short.
He also wasn't alone on the scoresheet. J.T. Compher, Andreas Englund and Marco Kasper scored the other Detroit goals, so the offense showed up from several spots in the lineup.
Anton Lundell was the problem on the other side. He scored twice for Florida and one of them was the game-winner, while Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe kept the Panthers on the attack all night.
Verhaeghe finished with three assists and a +3 rating. Reinhart fired four shots on goal.
Is Detroit's frustration about more than one loss?
Look at the goaltending line. John Gibson made 24 saves on 29 shots and allowed five goals, and the opposite crease wasn't much better: Akira Schmid stopped 24 of 28 for the win.
A 5-4 game that even is decided by who finishes the sequences, and Florida did. When you score four on the road and lose, the frustration usually points at your own end of the ice.
That's the part that should worry Detroit more than a broken stick. Raymond now sits at 7 goals and 12 assists through 20 games this season, and he's producing. The wins aren't coming at the same pace as his points.
Moritz Seider logged 26:31 with two assists, the heaviest workload of any skater in the game. That's a lot of minutes for a top defenseman in a loss where the team still allowed five.
The Red Wings will be looking at how those goals against happened, because nights like this pile up quickly. Florida, for its part, heads to St. Louis on Saturday.
This article was written with the help of artificial intelligence, based on public reports and official sources.
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