Boston Bruins
Bruins Fall To Red Wings As Jeremy Swayman’s Magic Runs Out
Jeremy Swayman had been on a hot streak. But his magic ran out on Tuesday night at Little Caesars Arena, where he was pulled from the game after allowing five goals on 23 shots as the Boston Bruins fell 5-4 to the Detroit Red Wings.
The Red Wings struck first with a goal from former Bruin James van Riemsdyk at 6:52 of the opening frame. With a long stretch pass from deep in the Detroit zone, Albert Johansson found van Riemsdyk in behind the Boston defense at the attacking blue line, springing him up the boards on a breakaway that he used to fire a shot over the shoulder of Jeremy Swayman.
Moritz Seider doubled Detroit’s lead at 13:49 with a shot from high in the zone that made its way through traffic and past a heavily screened Swayman.
A goal from Alex DeBrincat at added to the Red Wings’ advantage at 1:35 of the second period.
At that point, it seemed the Bruins were down for the count. Or at least they were until Johnathan Aspirot finally put them on the board at 11:09, beating Red Wings goalie John Gibson clean with a one-timer from the point for his first career NHL goal.
Boston brought itself to within one at 15:38 when Alex Steeves banged a rebound off into the back of the net for his fourth goal of the year, only to fall back behind by two when Ben Chiarot scored for the Wings less than a minute later.
After Lucas Raymond scored the fifth goal of the night for the Red Wings at 3:55 of the third while on the power play, the Bruins pulled Swayman.
Joonas Korpisalo entered and finished the game in net for Boston by making nine saves on nine shots.
Boston cut the deficit back down to two when Marat Khusnutdinov scored his fourth goal of the season with just over five minutes left to play. The Bruins pulled Korpisalo for an extra attacker, and brought the game to within one when Steeves scored his second goal of the night with 11 seconds remaining, but that was as close as they would get.
With the loss, the Bruins’ record drops to 15-13-0. They will face the St. Louis Blues Thursday night at TD Garden.
This story will be updated
Rick W Murray
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 am
Swayboy and the entire team stunk Vik Aardvark’s return did nothing Elias was waste of a signing …just tank. Get a high draft pick this teams going no where.
Bruinsfan4
December 3, 2025 at 12:53 pm
Vik aardvark. Hahahaaaaaaaaaaaa! I call him Arvidshit but I like yours better. Waste of $$.
Sr
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 pm
Mad Dog can t put 2 games together. Looks like they have found something in Steeves who is now tied with Zacha and Lindholm in goals. Team could use a legitimate top 4 D Man. Peeke exposed last night when playing to much. Do you need to spend 8.5 million on a goali. Minnesota goalie Wallestadt making 2.2 million has 4 shutouts his last 6 games.
Bruinsfan4
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 pm
SR you are right. Even though swayman wasnt the best last night we don’t need to be paying Korpicardboard $3mill. Even if we have to add a 4th just to get rid of him do it. DiPietro comes up at $850k? And yes we definitely need a rock solid dman like Kevin Miller was back in the day.still this isn’t a playoff team and aardvark, peeke, lohrei, kuraly and others should be moved in march. Free up $ get a good pick and see what happens next season in free agency
Cable
December 4, 2025 at 8:11 am
The Korpisalo trade wasn’t needed unless the Senators demanded the Bruins take him or no trade which could very well have happened ..The guy stunk with the Senators and stinks here with the Bruins and soon with be complaining about ice time ..I’m willing to bet that the B’s have been trying to move him since the offseason but nobody wants him so they are stuck with his bad play and $3 million .. Agree bringing in a top 3 Dman isn’t going to change much with this team the way to go is with the playoffs not in the cards at trade deadline move out players other teams might want to…. As far as Big ticket UFA players coming to Boston I don’t see it happening .. there’s a past track record that Sweeney has built
Joe
December 4, 2025 at 9:12 am
Geez ….Bruins get no respect from the oddsmakers
Blues ..9-11-7 vs Bruins 15-13 at TD Garden
Blues are -$136 favorite