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With 16 games left in the American Association season heading into Friday night, the Winnipeg Goldeyes fumbled a great chance to tighten the leagues wild card standings. Winnipeg gave up 16 hits in an 8-3 loss to the visiting Kansas City T-Bones in front of 6,023 fans at Shaw Park. With the loss, Winnipeg remains 2 ½ games behind the Gary SouthShore RailCats in the American Association wild card race. The RailCats lost to the Sioux Falls Canaries last night. Despite giving up two runs in the top of the first inning, Ray Sadler stroked a double off the left field wall in the bottom of the first inning to score Yurendell de Caster and Ryan Scoma and tie the game 2-2. Goldeyes starter Matt Rusch got through the second and third innings unscathed, but found trouble in the top of the fourth. Kansas City strung together three singles to lead off the fourth inning and grabbed a 4-2 lead. In the top of the fifth, the T-Bones tallied four runs on five hits. After giving up a one-run double to T-Bones first baseman Jairo Perez and walking the bases loaded, Rusch was relieved by Brendan Lafferty, who then gave up a two-run single to Kansas City third baseman Brandon Jones. The T-Bones other run came on an infield single. Goldeyes centre fielder Tyler Graham singled in Fehlandt Lentini in the ninth inning to complete the scoring. Offensively, the Goldeyes banged out 10 hits in the game, led by two-hit efforts from Graham, de Caster and Sadler. "Unfortunately, we got beat today by the elements," Goldeyes manager Rick Forney said on the TSN 1290 post-game show. "We hit some balls on the screws to right field and right-centre field that got knocked down by the wind. If it was a north wind or no wind, we might hit five or six home runs. "But, we were sloppy on defence and didnt do enough to win. They played better than we did." Winnipeg has won five consecutive series at home and will need to take the final two games of this three-game series in order to keep the streak intact. Rusch fell to 5-4 on the season after being on the hook for all eight of Kansas Citys runs. It is his first loss since June 21. Lafferty gave up three inherited runs in the fifth inning, but threw a scoreless sixth inning. Kaohi Downing then came in a shutout the T-Bones for the final three innings. He didnt even allow a hit. T-Bones starter Rick Zagone picked up his first win for Kansas City this season. He went six innings. Keith Picht tossed the final three innings for his first save of the season. The Goldeyes and T-Bones meet again Saturday night at Shaw Park. Winnipeg will send newly acquired Jason Jarvis to the hill against Kansas Citys Ethan Cole. 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DETROIT -- Jason Spezza and Bobby Ryan most exemplified the Ottawa Senators transition from the Daniel Alfredsson era. Spezza was tasked with taking over for Alfredsson as captain, and Ryan with filling the void as a scoring winger. In the Senators first game against Alfredsson and the Detroit Red Wings, Spezza and Ryan fittingly spearheaded an impressive offensive display in a 6-1 blowout at Joe Louis Arena. Those performances made it easier to forget about Alfredsson. "Bobby Ryan gets two and Jason gets two, and I thought Erik Karlsson was a force in the game, as well," coach Paul MacLean said. "We played the game tonight and we end up winning it, a big win for us on the road. It had little to do with Daniel." Defenceman Chris Phillips called it "just another game," but there was no denying the added significance of facing the former face of the franchise. Its impossible to fill the Alfredsson void completely, but leave it up to Spezza and Ryan to try. Spezza, who made it clear he understood fans paying closer attention to this game, was rolling offensively. He scored his first goal on the power play by shooting through a triple screen and the legs of Detroit defenceman Brian Lashoff, and later on banked the puck off the glass and corralled it to get his second. "I felt good tonight," said Spezza, who has seven goals and three assists in 10 games. "I thought I moved well, and when I move well usually I play well." It was the eighth regular-season game that Spezza served as captain. Understandably this was the biggest because it came against the man who wore the "C" on his chest for 14 seasons, and Spezza shined in that spotlight. "I think its good to play well in a big game," he said. "I think that taking over the captaincy is just all about learning every day for me and learning how to become a good captain in this league. I was trying to learn under Alfie when he was here, and its always something that I wanted. Now that I have the C, its a matter of trying to learn through different situations and be consistent." As a team, it was the Senators most consistent, complete effort of the season. Mika Zibanejad made an early impact in his first game of the season with an assist on Eric Grybas goal, and Anderson made 31 saves on 32 shots. But someone had to put the puck in the net, and Ryan makes a habit of doing that better than anyone else on the roster. The four-time 30-goal scorer put up his fifth and sixth of the season against Detroit, chasing goaltender Jimmy Howard in the first period and beating Jonas Gustavsson in the third. The Senators softened the blow of Alfredsson signing in Detroit by acquiring Ryan in a trade with the Anaheim Ducks the same day. Ryan knows the comparison will continue to be made, but hes not the one doing it. "I think were two completely different players -- hes leaving at a part of his career where hes winding down and Im kind of enteringg that area where you start to figure yourself out as a player," Ryan said.dddddddddddd "Were completely different dynamics, I think." Although they werent traded for each other like Phil Kessel and Tyler Seguin -- more accurately the draft pick that the Boston Bruins used to take him -- Ryan and Alfredsson are offensive-minded right-wingers, so the connection isnt going to stop. "Its a natural, its an easy comparison for you guys, I understand it," Ryan said. "But nobodys going to do what he did there." Alfredsson spent a lot of time this week addressing what he did in Ottawa, his departure after 17 seasons with the Senators and his fit with the Red Wings. No longer the spokesman for a team, the 40-year-old spoke for himself after a game in which he was generally a non-factor, finishing with two shots and two penalty minutes in 16 minutes 12 seconds of ice time. "It was obviously a different game today, the way it turned out," Alfredsson said. "It didnt feel too crazy. Warm-up was what it was. Once the game going, youre really into it. It was unfortunate the game it was it didnt really turn into a good battle, which I expected." Instead, Alfredsson and the Red Wings were left to lament their third straight loss in which he said the team looked slow. Coach Mike Babcock said his team didnt look very good but didnt know if that was a product of distraction. "Ive got no idea," he said. "Were not going to know the answer to that anyway. We can all speculate. The bottom line is we were no good here today. Its not like I saw it coming, its not like I think our play is falling off or anything. I was surprised to say the least. Disappointed for Alfie that we couldnt have done a better job." By comparison, the Senators did about as good a job as they could have, building off a strong performance in a loss to the Edmonton Oilers and getting rewarded for it. "I think we finally played a full, 60-minute game," Ryan said. "Weve seemed to put parts of it together in the past and gotten away from it, and tonight we didnt. Even when we got up a few, we kept the pedal down, and that was important." It was important for the Senators to put forth a good effort in an Atlantic Division game, even this early in the season. They were smiling much more about that than beating Alfredsson. "To beat the elite teams can give you confidence as a group," Spezza said. "We feel Detroits one of the best teams in our division and to beat them, hopefully we can use this as a bit of springboard to play better hockey." NOTES -- Patrick Wiercioch was a healthy scratch on defence for the Senators, as Joe Corvo played his fourth game of the season. ... Niklas Kronwall was considered questionable to play after taking a puck to the face during Detroits morning skate. 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