Henrique, Terry each has goal, assist, Ducks hold off Red Wings

DETROIT -- Adam Henrique and Troy Terry each had a goal and an assist to help the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 win against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Monday.

Radko Gudas and Pavel Mintyukov scored, and Lukas Dostal made 29 saves for the Ducks (12-19-0), who have won back-to-back games after losing 13 of their previous 14.

“I think being able to win last night (5-1 against the New Jersey Devils), for a lot of us, let us loosen up on the stick a little tonight,” Terry said. “I think guys just had more confidence around the net.”

Alex DeBrincat scored twice, and Patrick Kane and Shayne Gostisbehere each had two assists for Detroit (15-12-4), which has lost six of seven (1-5-1). Ville Husso stopped six of eight shots before leaving with a lower-body injury in the first period. James Reimer made 12 saves in relief.

“We’re fragile right now,” Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde said. “We were coming off two close losses, 2-1 and 1-0, and then two of their first three chances go in and we’re chasing the game.”

Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin, who missed four games after being knocked unconscious in a 5-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Dec. 9, had an assist in 21:13 in his return to the lineup.

The Ducks took a 1-0 lead at 2:23 of the first period when Gudas beat Husso with a wrist shot from the high slot.

Mintyukov made it 2-0 at 8:19 with a wrist shot that deflected off Larkin and over Husso’s blocker.

Henrique pushed it to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 18:49, tipping inCam Fowler’s pass in the slot.

“Obviously, we weren’t really ready to play,” DeBrincat said. “You’re not going to win many games after going down like that. Those are two points we gave up that we shouldn’t.”

Terry made it 4-0 at 1:46 of the second period, tapping in a rebound in front after Reimer saved Urho Vaakanainen’s slap shot from the point.

“We haven’t been in that position many times this year,” Terry said. “The story of our season has been getting a goal or two behind and having to battle back. Today we got the lead early and I liked the way we managed the game.”

Jeff Petry made it 4-1 at 2:29 of the second with a slap shot from the right point. It was his first goal for the Red Wings since being acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on Aug. 15.

DeBrincat cut it to 4-2 on a power play at 7:17 of the third period, finishing a cross-ice pass from Kane for his 400th NHL point. He scored his second power-play goal of the period on a one-timer from the left circle to make it 4-3 at 17:31.

“I loved the first 40 minutes, but the penalty problems caused some extra anxiety at the end,” Ducks coach Greg Cronin said.

Dostal, who scored for San Diego of the American Hockey League in 2022, nearly repeated the feat in the NHL, but his shot hit the outside of the post with 1:14 to play.

“It was a good try,” Dostal said. “I’m not sure if the coaches want me to shoot when it is only 4-3, but I’ve scored once and I thought I could do it again.”

NOTES: Dostal’s AHL goal came against the Colorado Eagles, who were being coached by Cronin. … Red Wings forward Klim Kostin left the game with an upper-body injury after colliding with Gudas in the second period.