Trending: Svechnikov gets another game-winner

DETROIT -- Youth was served for the Detroit Red Wings Saturday night at Little Caesars Arena.
All four Wings who scored in the 4-3 overtime preseason victory over the Boston Bruins were 21 or younger.

Filip Zadina (power play), Dennis Cholowski, Vili Saarijarvi and Evgeny Svechnilkov (overtime) scored for Detroit while Cameron Hughes, Daniel Winnik and Axel Andersson (power play) scored for Boston.
Jimmy Howard played the entire game, making 23 saves for the Wings.
Zane McIntyre also played the entire game, making 21 saves for the Bruins.
The Wings improved to 3-0 in the preseason while the Bruins fell to 4-0-1.
1. Evgeny Svechnikov: Luke Glendening did the hard work on the forecheck during overtime and found Svechnikov in the slot at 1:42 of overtime. Svechnikov did not miss, scoring his second game-winning goal in as many games. He also scored a tie-breaking third period goal on Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks, who brought a good lineup to Detroit. Svechnikov finished with one shot in 14:14. He also had a takeaway, a blocked shot, was 3-for-4 in face-offs and was plus-1.
Quotable: "I guess Glennie went for it, forecheck it, unbelievable job. He did everything with the one guy and the other guy came in so dangle him and then I was just kind of coming slow in the slot and waiting for a pass and great pass by him. Just got to put in." -- Svechnikov

Quotable II: "Part of his responsibility is to make sure there's 12 spots open to him on the forward group, so he's got to make sure he's got great depth in his game, so if it is a fourth-line spot that's open then you got to beat less guys out. To be top nine you got to beat more guys out and there's less room for error. I think he needs to make sure he's responsible, that he's heavy on the puck and that he adds offense without giving up a whole bunch of chances. He did a good job of that tonight. I thought he played well." -- Wings coach Jeff Blashill
2.Filip Zadina: The youngster had mixed emotions after his first preseason game Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks. He was very pleased that the team won, 4-2. But he was less than thrilled with his own performance, in which he did not get a shot in 16:12 of ice time. His line mates that night, Thomas Vanek and Andreas Athanasiou, both scored. So it was an auspicious beginning for Zadina in his second game when he scored at 2:32 of the first period on Detroit's first power play. Niklas Kronwall and Joe Veleno picked up the assists. Zadina finished with 18:34 in ice time, had three shots, a blocked shot and was minus-1.

Quotable: "I thought he was much better tonight than the other night. It was definitely a step in the right direction. The one-time shot, I think it was three in a row on the power play. He's very willing to shoot it. It's a different lineup, too, it's not quite the lineup we faced (vs. Chicago) in terms of regular NHL players. But I thought it was a good step in the right direction and shows good confidence by him." -- Blashill
3. Dennis Cholowski: The Wings have already expressed how happy they are with the progress that Cholowski has made since they drafted him in the first round, 20th overall, of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Cholowski has gone from 170 pounds to a muscular 195 and has learned to assert himself on the ice, commanding the puck and making good decisions with it when he gets it. At 17:03 of the first period, Cholowski flipped the puck from the left point and it made it past Boston goaltender Zane McIntyre into the net for a 2-0 Detroit lead. For the second time, Cholowski played more than any other Wing with 22:51 in ice time, 2:59 of that on the penalty kill. He had three shots, a hit, a giveaway, a blocked shot and was minus-1.
Quotable: "The awareness, the speed, it's really everything. Everything is just a little bit faster. Everybody is a little bit bigger and stronger, so make quicker reads and you have to be aggressive, too. You can't let anybody have any time and space, that's the biggest thing." -- Cholowski

Quotable II: "He's obviously trying to fight for a power play spot, too, but our PK needs to be better, so whoever we get, we don't use (Kronwall) tons on the PK anymore, so we got to make sure other guys are real good killers. We don't use (Mike Green) much. So if you're in our lineup, if Greener is in the lineup and Kronner - not to say those guys can't because they certainly can and Kronner has done it lots in his time but we don't use him as much as we used to - you got to show, like I said with Svech, where there's 12 spots open, that if you have depth in your game and if you can be a penalty killer and power play guy, both, it gives you way more opportunity to win those jobs." -- Blashill