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Recap: Double-Leafed: Wings lose in Toronto, 6-3

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Oh boy, that game was a doozy. Talk about a tour from terrible town to cautiously optimistic city to desperation central. Here’s how the Wings’ game against the Leafs went down.

The rivalry matchup started out with the ice tilting in favor of the Red Wings. Through the first four minutes of play the Red Wings crashed the Leafs in their zone, but play started to shift when Toronto began employing the stretch pass the move through the neutral zone and beat Detroit’s aggressive forecheck.

The use of the stretch pass allowed Toronto’s Nazem Kadri beat the Wings on a bad line change and belted the puck past Howard on the blocker side at 14:40 to put the Leafs .