After last season's near playoff miss, the Detroit Red Wings are unfortunately familiar with coming close but painfully short, and they replicated that fate Monday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, falling 2–1 to the Ottawa Senators.

In their first game since the trade deadline and acquiring Petr Mrazek and Craig Smith, the Red Wings lost to Brady Tkachuk and the Ottawa Senators’ trade deadline acquisition, Dylan Cozens. Former Red Wing David Perron had the first goal of the game,

Linus Ullmark demonstrated why the Ottawa Senators traded for him last year as the gifted netminder turned away 48 shots on Monday night in a 2-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings