DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Alex DeBrincat scored the go-ahead goal with 3:25 remaining and assisted on Detroit\u2019s two other goals, lifting the Red Wings to a 3-1 victory over the Montreal\u00a0Canadiens\u00a0on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
DeBrincat scored the winner on a backhander after stealing the puck from defenseman Mike Matheson in the\u00a0Canadiens\u2019 zone. J.T. Compher scored earlier in the period and Andrew Copp added an empty-net goal with 16.8 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
John Gibson made 32 saves for the Red Wings, who won for the second straight game following a three-game losing streak. Detroit recorded back-to-back victories for the first time since a three-game winning streak in mid-January.<\/p>\n
The Red Wings also won the season series, 2-1 and pulled even with the\u00a0Canadiens\u00a0in the Atlantic Division standings in the tight Eastern Conference playoff race.<\/p>\n
Juraj Slafkovsky scored the\u00a0Canadiens\u2019 goal on a second-period power play. Cole Caufield, who scored his 40th goal to beat Boston on overtime on Tuesday, assisted and Jakub Dobes made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Detroit captain Dylan Larkin missed his sixth consecutive game due to a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
Detroit came up empty on two power-play opportunities during the second period. Montreal was awarded its second power play of the game with 2:28 left in the period when Moritz Seider was penalized for holding Jake Evans\u2019 stick.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Canadiens\u00a0scored 13 seconds later as Slafkovsky placed a rebound of Caufield\u2019s shot just inside the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Detroit tied it at 2:14 of the third period. Patrick Kane took a shot from the point that fluttered through traffic and bounced off Compher, who was parked at the goalpost.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Canadiens: Host New York Islanders on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Red Wings: Host Boston on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Alex DeBrincat scored the go-ahead goal with 3:25 remaining and assisted on Detroit\u2019s two other…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-548201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}