There’s been a lot of losses this season — and the Red Wings will surely have more these last couple months — but this was a particular galling one.
Twice the Wings had leads in the third period, and for stretches Friday they outplayed the Western Conference-leading Calgary Flames, only to ultimately lose 6-4.
This was fun hockey, a throwback, wide-open game to an era of hockey played long, long ago.
But the Wings would have simply enjoyed to have won, with a lot less fireworks.
The Wings led 4-3 at 8:35 of the third period when Dylan Larkin — who had one of his best games of the season — scored his 20th goal, and second of the game.