Moritz Seider produced a goal and two assists to lead host Detroit to a 5-4 victory over Boston on Tuesday night.
Lucas Raymond and Alex DeBrincat each contributed a goal and an assist. James van Riemsdyk and Ben Chiarot also scored for Detroit to snap a four-game winless streak.
John Gibson made 34 saves as the Red Wings avenged a 3-2 shootout loss to the Bruins on Saturday. Detroit had gone 0-3-1 in its previous four games.
Boston defenseman Jonathan Aspirot scored his first career goal during the second period. Alex Steeves supplied two goals and Marat Khusnutdinov also scored for the Bruins.
Goaltender Jeremy Swayman was pulled in favor of Joonas Korpisalo during the third period after giving up Detroit’s fifth goal. Swayman made 18 saves.
The Red Wings grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first period. Van Riemsdyk got the scoring going on a breakaway. He took a lead pass from Albert Johansson and skated into the left circle, where he rifled a shot past Swayman’s glove. Seider collected the second assist.
Seider made it 2-0 with 6:11 left in the period. His shot from the point squeezed inside Swayman’s stick and the post. Patrick Kane and DeBrincat picked up the assists.
DeBrincat pushed the lead to three goals just 1:35 into the second period. He took a shot from the slot that slipped through Swayman’s pads for his 13th goal this season.
Aspirot put Boston on the board with his breakthrough goal, a slapshot from the point with 8:51 remaining in the period.
Steeves briefly cut Detroit’s advantage to 3-2 when he scored on a rebound with 4:22 left in the period. Elias Lindholm and Morgan Geekie collected the assists.
Chiarot answered less than a minute later as he scored from the slot off a Dylan Larkin feed for a 4-2 Red Wings lead.
Raymond scored on the Red Wings’ first power play to make it 5-2 and end Swayman’s night at the 3:55 mark of the third.
Khusnutdinov and Steeves scored in the final 5:03 — Steeves’ goal came with 11.2 seconds left while playing with an extra attacker — but the deficit was too great.
–Field Level Media
