Red Wings open road trip with wild, 6-5 shootout loss to Blue Jackets

Ted Kulfan, The Detroit News on Dec 4, 2025

Published in Hockey

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a wild and exciting game that saw plenty of highlights, the Red Wings couldn't get the last one.

Columbus scored two goals in the shootout, none for the Wings, as the Blue Jackets defeated the Wings, 6-5, in a shootout.

The Wings dropped to 14-11-3 while opening this season-long six-game road trip.

Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat scored goals 2 minutes, 3 seconds apart midway in the third period, sending the Wings to a 5-4 lead.

Adam Fantilli scored his second goal of the game and 11th of the season, at 18:29, with the goaltender pulled, tying the game 5-5. Fantilli's shot through the slot got through a maze of bodies and goaltender Cam Talbot.

Kane tied the game 4-4 in the third period. Fighting a nine-game goal-scoring slump, Kane scored his fourth goal at 9:35, cutting into the slot and snapping a shot past goaltender Elvis Merzlikins.

DeBrincat then broke the tie with his 14th goal, at 11:38. DeBrincat cut through the slot and blasted a shot past Merzlikins to give the Wings the lead.

It wasn't easy getting there.

Fantilli, the former Michigan standout, broke a 3-3 tie with a power-play goal at 13:50 of the second period. Fantilli's blast from the low circle was his 10th goal, and capped a second period with five power-play goals (three by the Wings).

Dylan Larkin (15th goal), Lucas Raymond (10th) and James van Riemsdyk (fifth) all had second-period, power-play goals.

The Jackets took a 3-1 lead with goals from Kirill Marchenko (power play, ninth goal) and Kent Johnson (third) 1:53 apart early in the second period.

But goals from Raymond and van Riemsdyk, while the Wings were enjoying a four-minute power play on a high-sticking to Columbus' Dmitri Voronkov, tied the game 3-3.

Raymond scored his third in three games, lining a shot from near the hashmarks at 9:08. The Wings tied it when van Riemsdyk scored his fifth, and fourth in five games, scooped a loose puck net-front past Merzlikins at 10:20.

Ivan Provorov (fourth goal) opened the game's scoring, with a point shot through traffic in front of goaltender Cam Talbot, at 17:55 of the first period.