Jonatan Berggren’s breakaway goal with 36 seconds left broke a tie and gave the visiting Detroit Red Wings a 5-4 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.
Alex DeBrincat had a goal and two assists, Dylan Larkin and Patrick Kane each collected a goal and an assist and defenseman Erik Gustafsson also scored for Detroit, which won its third straight under new coach Todd McLellan, who is 3-1 since replacing Derek Lalonde. Cam Talbot stopped 21 shots.
James van Riemsdyk had two goals and an assist, defenseman Zach Werenski tallied one goal and two assists and Sean Monahan got the other marker for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins made 21 saves.
Berggren’s goal came after he came out of the penalty box and took a pass from Tyler Motte after teammate Ben Chiarot had blocked a shot by Columbus defenseman Ivan Provorov.
Berggren had been serving a delay of game penalty because McLellan challenged van Riemsdyk’s tying goal with 2:41 remaining for goaltender interference and lost the challenge. Van Riemsdyk poked in a loose puck that was behind Talbot.
Larkin’s power-play goal gave the Red Wings a 4-3 lead with 4:54 gone into the third period. He connected from the front of the net off a pass from DeBrincat.
The Blue Jackets scored twice in the second period to tie the game 3-3.
Werenski beat Talbot with a screened shot from the top inside edge of the left circle with 8:51 left in the middle period for his 12th goal, and Monahan tied it with 1:20 remaining in the second when he tapped in van Riemsdyk’s back-door pass into an open net.
Detroit led 3-1 after the first period.
Columbus took a 1-0 lead 2:42 into the game on van Riemsdyk power-play goal, and Kane tied it at 6:55.
Gustafsson gave the Red Wings the advantage with 5:21 left in the opening period for his first goal with the team. DeBrincat scored a power-play tally 2:30 later.
–Field Level Media
