RECAP: Red Wings can't hold early lead in 4-3 overtime loss to Capitals

WASHINGTON -- The Detroit Red Wings couldn't hold an early 2-0 lead, eventually falling, 4-3, in overtime to the Washington Capitals on Monday night at Capital One Arena.

David Perron opened the scoring for the Red Wings at 7:30 of the first period, then Oskar Sundqvist's power-play goal about eight minutes later in the same frame put Detroit ahead, 2-0.
After Washington recorded back-to-back tallies 11 seconds apart late in the second, Lucas Raymond's eight goal of the season early in the third reclaimed the lead, 3-2, for the Red Wings. The Capitals found the back of the net just 10 seconds after Raymond did, then scored the game-winner with 22 seconds remaining in overtime.
"I thought our overtime was the most chances we generated," captain Dylan Larkin said. "But they get a shot, it goes in and the game is over. It was a much better, much more productive overtime. We still need to find two points, but we feel it was a pretty good point tonight for us."
Goalie Ville Husso made 38 saves for Detroit (13-11-7; 33 points), which picked up a point but saw its winless streak stretch to six games. With the victory, Washington moved to 17-13-4 (38 points) on the season.
NEXT UP:The Red Wings will welcome the Tampa Bay Lightning to Little Caesars Arena on Wednesday night.

SCORING SUMMARY

Detroit 1, Washington 0 (7:30, 1st period)
Perron, assisted by Michael Rasmussen and Larkin, jumped on a loose puck in front of Washington's crease, then put a nifty back-handed shot past Capitals goaltender Charlie Lindgren for his 10th tally of the season.

Detroit 2, Washington 0 (15:36, 1st period)
With less than 15 seconds remaining on the Red Wings' first power play of the night, Joe Veleno's pass from just outside the left faceoff circle went to Jonatan Berggren below Washington's goal line. After inching closer towards the opposing net, Berggren set up Sundqvist up close for the score to double Detroit's early lead.

Washington 1, Detroit 2 (15:35, 2nd period)
After taking a feed from Alex Ovechkin, Nic Dowd fired from the slot found and twine.
Washington 2, Detroit 2 (15:46, 2nd period)
Nick Jensen's shot from the side boards was tipped past Husso by Dowd for his second tally of the night, marking the fastest back-to-back goals scored by any Capitals player this season.
Detroit 3, Washington 2 (4:49, 3rd period)
Olli Maatta sent the puck all the way down the ice to Andrew Copp, who collected it and skated into the right faceoff circle. Copp quickly fed Raymond in the opposite circle, who scored to put Detroit back in front.

Washington 3, Detroit 3 (5:59, 3rd period)
Erik Gustafsson received a cross-ice pass from Lars Eller, then notched his fourth goal in the past two games.
Washington 4, Detroit 3 (4:38, Overtime)
Dmitry Orlov scored the overtime game-winner for Washington, which has won seven of its past eight contests.

QUOTABLE

Head coach Derek Lalonde on the special-teams battle
"Tonight we win it, and it gives us a chance to get a point on the road."
Larkin on his takeaways from Monday's game
"We really tried to not take as many penalties. We tried to stay disciplined, but it's a hockey game and things are gonna happen."
Larkin on limiting Ovechkin's scoring chances
"He's gonna get his chances. Huss was really good against him tonight. I think they were in our zone a lot and generated a lot of offense tonight. We just tried to stay tight to him, and not give him time or space to shoot the puck."