The good news for the Bruins on Saturday night in Detroit was that they played their best game of the brutal five-game road trip.

The bad news was that, with the offensive talent (or lack thereof) in the lineup, it just didn’t matter.

With not nearly enough offensive punch, the B’s absorbed their eighth straight loss to the Red Wings, 2-1, at Little Caesars Arena.

With Jeremy Swayman pulled for an extra skater, Detroit goalie Cam Talbot robbed Casey Mittelstadt with a glove save with under 10 seconds remaining.

On their 0-5 trip, the B’s managed only seven goals.

The Wings came into the game with their hopes of ending the franchise’s eight-year playoff drought dimming. Three points out of a playoff spot to start the night, Detroit was just 3-7 in their previous 10 games.

And the Wings began the game with the appropriate desperation.

After he absorbed a big hit into the end boards from Andrew Peeke, Alex DeBrincat went after Peeke and fought him just 1:06 into the game, scoring the take-down at the end.

Just 55 seconds later, Auston Watson used his considerable size advantage to pummel Jakub Lauko, earning an extra 10-minute misconduct, presumably for the way he flipped Lauko at the end of the fight.

The atmosphere was hot, and the B’s didn’t immediately respond well.

Mason Lohrei, who was a game-time decision because of an illness, made a bad pass intended for David Pastrnak in the neutral zone and Marco Kasper picked it off just outside the Boston blue line. Kasper moved down the wing and beat Swayman from the top of the left circle at 5:37, a shot Swayman just whiffed on with his glove.

The B’s settled down after that and actually had a couple of good chances. Patrick Brown had a glorious chance off a set-up by a hustling Lauko but Talbot turned it away. Talbot also made a good pad save on a Fabian Lysell breakaway.

Swayman also settle down and came up with a big save on a Lucas Raymond breakaway.

The B’s started the second on the power play after Nikita Zadorov blasted Jonathan Berggren on a late hit into the boards with 25 seconds left in the period, an obvious call.

It cost the B’s.

On the PP, Raymond did a good job of keeping the puck in the zone on one side of the ice and then ripped a perfect shortside one-timer 53 seconds into the period.

But the B’s got one back when they got their first PP. Morgan Geekie had drawn the holding call on Kasper and then he scored his 27th of the year at 2:12, making a deft redirection of a Pastrnak pass into the slot.

After that, the B’s carried much of the play in the second period but could not pull even. They had to kill off a Pastrnak high-sticking late in the period and did so successfully, getting it to the third period at a workable one-goal deficit.

But in the third, the B’s didn’t get their first shot on net until there was under six minutes left to go and, when they finally got a good chance in the waning seconds, they couldn’t bury it.