Smith nearly got a second goal later in the period, but Gibson stopped him on a breakaway at 12:59.<\/p>\n
The Sharks took a 2-1 lead at 1:58 of the second period. Nick Leddy<\/a> backhanded a pass toward the front of the crease, and Graf tipped it past Gibson.<\/p>\n Detroit pulled even at 2-2 when Compher put in Kasper\u2019s pass on the rush at 6:55. Kasper intercepted John Klingberg<\/a>\u2019s pass in the neutral zone, then drove past the defenseman at the blue line before feeding Compher.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought (Michael) Misa was coming up on the boards, so I was going to give him the puck,\u201d Klingberg said. \u201cI tried to pinch in and get it back, but I ended up on the outside and he beat me on the inside.\u201d<\/p>\n Larkin put the Red Wings ahead 3-2 at 4:41 of the third, jamming the puck in at the left post as Askarov tried to cover it.<\/p>\n Gibson made 11 saves in the period, including a big stop on Celebrini\u2019s slap shot from low in the right circle at 13:35, one second after a Sharks power play expired.<\/p>\n Kasper then scored into an empty net at 18:28 to make it a 4-2 final.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s always fun to score one, especially after a long time,\u201d Kasper said. \u201cIt was an empty-net goal, but they count the same, so I\u2019ll take it.\u201d<\/p>\n NOTES: DeBrincat reached 25 goals for an eighth season, tied with Kyle Connor<\/a> for the third most by an active United States-born player, behind Patrick Kane<\/a> (11) and Auston Matthews<\/a> (nine). \u2026 Detroit has multiple 50-point scorers prior to its 50th game in a season for the first time since 2007-08 (Henrik Zetterberg<\/a> and Pavel Datsyuk<\/a>). It won the Stanley Cup that season. \u2026 Larkin\u2019s goal was the 266th of his career, moving him past John Ogrodnick<\/a> for 10th place in Red Wings history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smith nearly got a second goal later in the period, but Gibson stopped him on a breakaway at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-418381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}