Red Wings 5-3 win over Avs in outdoor game

The fake snow surrounding the rink was only intended for decoration. Pat Lafontaine JerseyCertainly made for a nice blizzard, though, when the whipping wind caught hold of the cotton-like substance and sent it flying everywhere. ''It was snowing, right? In the 50s,'' Red Wings goaltender Petr Mrazek cracked. This ''snow'' storm couldn't derail Detroit as Brad Richards scored the winning goal with a minute remaining and the Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-3 at Coors Field on Saturday night in the NHL's warmest regular-season outdoor game. Richards, playing in his fifth NHL outdoor game, flipped a shot over the shoulder of Colorado http://www.officialsabresteamshop.com/Womens_Youth_Pierre_Turgeon_Jersey goaltender Semyon Varlamov. Tomas Tatar, Gustav Nyquist and Justin Abdelkader also scored for the Red Wings. Darren Helm added an empty-netter to seal the win. ''I'd be lying if I told you http://www.officialsabresteamshop.com/Womens_Youth_Rick_Martin_Jersey I was trying to put it in,'' Richards said of his goal that he just tried to put on net after a save from Varlamov. ''But we'll take those.'' Nathan MacKinnon, Tyson Barrie and Alex Tanguay had goals for the Avalanche in the first NHL outdoor game in Colorado. Talk about a heated rivalry: The game-time temperature was an unseasonably Christian Fischer Jerseybalmy 65 degrees at puck drop. The warmest game-time temperature before Saturday in an NHL regular-season outdoor game was 62 degrees on Jan. 25, 2014, when Los Angeles hosted Anaheim at Dodger Stadium. And yet there was a blizzard as the wind lifted strands of cotton into the air in front of a capacity crowd of 50,095. ''The guys did a good job ofhttp://www.officialcoyotesproshop.com/Womens_Youth_Dylan_Strome_Jersey cleaning up when they had to,'' Abdelkader said. ''It really didn't affect the game.'' The wind was a different matter. It was gusting so hard that with 10 minutes left, the teams changed ends so one didn't have an advantage. Asked if the wind bothered him, Richards joked: ''You have to ask the faster skaters how the wind was affecting them. I was the same speed all night.''