It was a successful return for Larkin after a tumultuous offseason. Larkin asked for a trade away from Detroit, announced that he would no longer be the team’s captain, then sustained an upper-body injury days before the start of training camp.<\/p>\n
He was loudly booed during his first shifts, but that changed when the Red Wings (1-2-0) started scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alex DeBrincat<\/a> had two goals and an assist for Detroit, while Viktor Arvidsson<\/a> and Justin Faulk<\/a> each had a goal and an assist, and Lucas Raymond<\/a>\u00a0had three assists. John Gibson<\/a>\u00a0made 22 saves for the Red Wings in their first win of the season.<\/p>\n Tim Stutzle<\/a>, Drake Batherson<\/a>, and William Eklund<\/a>\u00a0each had a goal and an assist for Ottawa (2-1-0). Samuel Ersson<\/a>\u00a0made 31 saves.<\/p>\n Stutzle gave the Senators a 1-0 lead at 2:44 of the first period. He picked the puck up in his end of the ice, beat Axel Sandin-Pellikka<\/a> and used Ben Chiarot<\/a>\u00a0as a screen for a snap shot past Gibson\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n Detroit only needed 32 seconds for DeBrincat to make it 1-1, beating Ersson from the bottom of the left face-off circle thanks to Nate Danielson<\/a>\u2019s pass from the right side of the crease at 3:16.<\/p>\n Larkin gave Detroit its first lead of the season at 13:14. DeBrincat\u2019s pass found Arvidsson down low, and he flicked the puck to Larkin alone at the top of the crease.<\/p>\n Arvidsson then made it 3-1 with a power-play goal at 2:01 of the second period, snapping in the rebound of Larkin\u2019s initial shot, and then\u00a0Faulk broke through the Ottawa defense thanks to a stretch pass from William Wallinder<\/a>\u00a0with a wrist shot from the high slot to put Detroit up 4-1 at 4:30.<\/p>\n Batherson cut it to 4-2 at 6:08 on the power play. He got a pass from Eklund at the left post and put it up and over the stick of Gibson with an off-speed wrist shot.<\/p>\n