Kane has 3 points, Red Wings recover to defeat Flyers in shootout

DETROIT -- Patrick Kane had two goals and an assist, then scored the deciding goal in the shootout, and the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 7-6 at Little Caesars Arena on Friday.

Philadelphia trailed 5-1 after the first period but took a 6-5 lead with 5:07 left in the third before Dylan Larkin tied it 37 seconds later.

“Obviously, it was a tough first period, but we stuck with it and battled to get a point,” Flyers goalie Carter Hart said. “That’s huge.”

Larkin had a goal and an assist, and Alex DeBrincat had three assists for Detroit (16-13-4), which had lost four in a row and seven of eight (1-6-1). Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider each had two assists.

“This is big for us,” DeBrincat said. “We’ve obviously been fighting it for a little bit, so a win is huge for us. Now we need to keep this rolling and hopefully get another win tomorrow.”

James Reimer made 37 saves for the Red Wings.

“I give Reimer a lot of credit,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “He was obviously fighting it tonight, but he got us through the overtime and won it for us in the shootout.”

Scott Laughton had a goal and an assist, and Hart made 31 saves for Philadelphia (18-11-4), which was coming off a 4-2 loss to the Nashville Predators at home Thursday. Joel Farabee, Travis Sanheim and Egor Zamula each had two assists.

“No one in this locker room is happy that we lost,” Flyers forward Garnet Hathaway said. “I’m happy that we got one point instead of zero. This is a big learning step for us.”

The Red Wings took a 1-0 lead at 4:30 when Kane swept in a rebound after Larkin’s shot hit the post. DeBrincat got his 200th NHL assist on the play.

“Without [Kane] and my other teammates, I would never be at this milestone,” said DeBrincat, who has 33 assists on goals scored by Kane, his former Chicago Blackhawks teammate. “You can see the chemistry we have -- one of those assists hit my skate and went right to him.”

Kane made it 2-0 at 8:16, tapping in a loose puck from the edge of the crease, but Bobby Brink finished off a 2-on-1 to get the Flyers within 2-1 at 9:00.

Daniel Sprong gave the Red Wings a 3-1 lead with a power-play goal at 15:05, tipping in Seider's pass, and J.T. Compher pushed it to 4-0 at 15:38.

Shayne Gostisbehere took advantage of another rebound to give the Red Wings a 5-1 lead at 19:42.

Sean Couturier cut it to 5-2 at 3:37 of the second period by redirecting a Sanheim shot, and Morgan Frost scored the same way 24 seconds later at 4:01 to pull the Flyers within 5-3.

Hathaway tipped in Laughton’s shot to make it 5-4 at 5:51 of the third period, and Laughton knocked in a rebound to tie it 5-5 at 13:30.

It was Laughton’s first goal in nine games.

“[It] feels nice to contribute there, in the third especially, and to get on the board,” Laughton said. “… Obviously [we] would’ve liked to get the two points, but the way we battled back, we can take a lot from it.”

Owen Tippett gave the Flyers a 6-5 lead at 14:53. Reimer stopped his initial shot, but it trickled between his legs and Tippett poked the puck in behind him.

Larkin tied it 6-6 with a sharp-angled shot from below the goal line at 15:30.

Hart stopped Gostisbehere from point-blank range with 10 seconds left in overtime.

“I think sometimes when you’re in a slump you just need something to go your way,” Kane said. “Obviously we had a great start, but it starts becoming maybe 5-3, 5-4, maybe a little doubt creeps in, but I thought we did a great job of hanging in there. Big goal by ‘Larks’ to make it 6-6, and then [we] get another point in the shootout. So, nice to get a win and kind of feel good about ourselves.”

NOTES: Red Wings defenseman Olli Maatta left the game in the first period with an upper-body injury. Lalonde said he will not be available for the game at the New Jersey Devils on Saturday. … Detroit forward David Perron returned from a six-game suspension for cross-checking Ottawa Senators defenseman Artem Zub on Dec. 9. He had no shots on goal and was minus-1 in 13:44 of ice time. … Hart, who had missed five games with an illness, made 23 saves on 24 shots after the first period. … The Flyers also finished the game with five defensemen after Nick Seeler got 27 penalty minutes for a fight with Christian Fischer at 3:01 of the second: an instigator minor, a fighting major, a 10-minute misconduct and a game misconduct.