DETROIT (Michigan News Source) – Pittsburgh scored three goals in the first 32 minutes of the game taking control of their own post season fate topping Detroit, 5-1. Pittsburgh scored two in the first with their third coming at 11:16 in the second.
“That’s a team fighting for their playoff lives. They played a really good game. We just had flashes of being good today, but just some of our egregious mistakes ended up on the wrong players’ sticks and in the back of our net,” said head coach Derek Lalonde.
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Detroit’s goal came at 11:58 in the second period by Pius Suter which was his 14th goal of the year.
Pittsburgh went on to score two more goals in the third period for the 5-2 final.
Ville Husso had 23 saves as Detroit is now 35-34-10 with 80 points. Their final home game is on Monday night against Dallas.
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