Red Wings defeat Hurricanes, end skid

DETROIT -- Henrik Zetterberg scored, and Jimmy Howard made 28 saves to help the Detroit Red Wings defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-1 at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday.
Zetterberg's power-play goal in the second period was the 335th of his NHL career, tying Ted Lindsay for fifth in Red Wings history.

"It's special, because that's a number I've been looking at for a while now," Zetterberg said. "I never thought I would play this long with this many great players."
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Danny DeKeyser and Trevor Daley scored for Detroit (25-26-10), which ended a three-game losing streak (0-2-1). The Red Wings are seven points behind the Columbus Blue Jackets for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.
"We need to get on a roll," Howard said. "We've been searching for that all season."

Noah Hanifin scored, and Scott Darling made 19 saves for Carolina (27-25-10), which has lost five straight (0-4-1). The Hurricanes trail the Blue Jackets by three points for the second wild card into the playoffs from the Eastern Conference.
Carolina was outscored 9-2 in back-to-back losses to the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit.
"We've got to find a way to score more goals," Hanifin said. "We were disappointed about last night, and I thought we were able to get off to a good start, but we've got to start putting more chances into the net."
Justin Faulk appeared to give the Hurricanes the lead on the power play at 8:09 of the first period, but after a video review, it was determined he kicked the puck into the net.
"We got traffic and rebounds on that power play, but the goal didn't count, and the power play wasn't good the rest of the night," Faulk said. "It hasn't been very good for a while."
DeKeyser gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead at 15:41 of the first period, skating in from the blue line and shooting off Darling's glove.
Hanifin tied it 1-1 at 12:18 of the second period, taking a pass from Victor Rask and beating Howard with a wrist shot from the left face-off circle.

Hurricanes forward Elias Lindholm was called for a holding penalty 11 seconds after the goal, leading to Zetterberg's power-play goal at 13:22 when he redirected Gustav Nyquist's pass past Darling to make it 2-1.
"I thought the two turning points of the game were losing the goal off the skate, and taking the penalty right after we tied it up," Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said. "They scored on that power play and we didn't do much after that."
Daley made it 3-1 with a 4-on-4 goal at 16:04 on a wrist shot over Darling's glove and under the crossbar.

Goal of the game

Daley's goal at 16:04 of the second period.

Save of the game

Howard's save on Lucas Wallmark at 6:27 of the third period.

Highlight of the game

DeKeyser's goal at 15:41 of the first period.

They said it

"(Zetterberg) has always been an elite player because of his hockey sense. He knows where the puck is and where it needs to be, and he knows what he needs do to make that happen. That's how he's made so many plays over the years."-- Hurricanes coach Bill Peters, who was an assistant coach for Detroit from 2011-14
"When you are down by two goals and you need points as badly as we do, I don't know how we can be deep into the third period and only have five or six shots." -- Hurricanes defenseman Justin Faulk
"Getting two points tonight was huge. We need every game now, but we all think that we're a pretty good team that can compete with anybody. We need to go on a run." -- Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall

Need to know

Dylan Larkin's assist on DeKeyser's first-period goal gave him 45 points (nine goals, 36 assists), tying his career high he set in 2015-16. … Detroit plays 10 of its next 11 games on the road. ... Zetterberg's goal in the second period was the 100th of his career on the power play.

What's next

Hurricanes: At the Boston Bruins on Tuesday (7 p.m. ET; NESN, FS-CR, NHL.TV)
Red Wings: At the New York Rangers on Sunday (7:30 p.m. ET; NHLN, MSG, FS-D, NHL.TV)