Jonatan Berggren’s breakaway goal with 36 seconds left broke a tie and gave the Detroit Red Wings a 5-4 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday night.
Alex DeBrincat scored a goal and had two assists, Dylan Larkin and Patrick Kane each had a goal and an assist, and defenseman Erik Gustafsson also scored for Detroit. The Red Wings won their third straight game under new coach Todd McLellan, who is 3-1 since replacing Derek Lalonde. Cam Talbot made 21 saves.
James van Riemsdyk scored two goals and had an assist, defenseman Zach Werenski had one goal and two assists, and Sean Monahan scored once for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 21 shots in goal.
Berggren’s game-winning goal came after he exited the penalty box and received a pass from Tyler Motte. This followed a blocked shot by Detroit’s Ben Chiarot on Columbus defenseman Ivan Provorov.
Berggren had been serving a delay of game penalty after McLellan challenged van Riemsdyk’s tying goal with 2:41 left, but lost the challenge. Van Riemsdyk had poked in a loose puck that was behind Talbot.
Larkin gave Detroit a 4-3 lead with a power-play goal 4:54 into the third period. He scored from in front of the net after a pass from DeBrincat.
Columbus tied the game 3-3 with two goals in the second period.
Werenski scored with a screened shot from the left circle with 8:51 left in the second period, and Monahan tied it with 1:20 remaining in the middle period when he tapped in a back-door pass from van Riemsdyk into an open net.
Detroit led 3-1 after the first period.
Columbus took a 1-0 lead 2:42 into the game on a van Riemsdyk power-play goal. Kane tied it for Detroit at 6:55. Gustafsson gave the Red Wings the lead with 5:21 left in the first period, and DeBrincat scored a power-play goal 2:30 later.
