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The B’s took the one-goal deficit into the first intermission, but they dodged a couple of bullets in the first. First it appeared that Brandon Carlo may have been hurt when, after diving to break up a Joe Veleno breakaway, he crashed head- and- shoulder first into the end boards. Carlo, who has a concussion history, was slow to get up and went down the tunnel, but returned quickly.

Patrice Bergeron also took a Moritz Seider high stick to the throat that knocked him on his back, but he didn’t miss any time.

But the wheels came off in the second period when the B’s power play went from being merely ineffective to harmful. David Pastrnak, who’d already had a bad turnover on a breakout that could have been disastrous, handed the puck to Seider at the Detroit blue line and the fine young defenseman scored on a pretty

backhand shot at 6:34.

“It was a poor decision,” said Montgomery. “We want that puck to go to the goal line when we don’t have a play and we don’t have time on the entry.”

The special teams meltdown continued. After Tomas Nosek was called for an offensive zone trip, the Wings cashed in with their second power- play goal when a wide open Larkin scored from prime ice in the slot at 10:39.

The B’s had another power play which looked better but was unproductive nonetheless and then the Wings just about put it out of reach when Adam Erne scored off a Jonatan Berggren post shot at 15:08 to stretch the lead to 4- 0. That turned out to be the game-winner.

To their credit, the B’s didn’t concede the game. Matt Grzelcyk got one back at 16:52 when he converted a Pastrnak pass to beat Husso. That gave the B’s life.

“No surprise with this locker room, A ton of resilience,” said Grzelcyk. “It is a