Lucas Raymond could have shot from the right faceoff circle. He could have fired it from the left circle. He could have tried a wraparound. He could have passed the puck.

He instead circled behind the net, skated into the slot, got goaltender Jonathan Quick to slide to the side and buried the puck with 3:47 remaining in regulation to snap a tie. It was what’s called a goal-scorer’s goal, and it lifted the Detroit Red Wings past the New York Rangers 2-1 Sunday at Madison Square Garden.

The solid 60-minute effort was a strong response to Saturday’s 5-4 overtime loss to Buffalo, when the Red Wings squandered a three-goal lead.

What made Raymond decide to hold onto the puck during that late rush?

“Ask myself that sometimes, too,” he told media in New York. “I just try to hold on to it,

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