Larkin scores twice, Red Wings defeat Golden Knights

DETROIT -- Dylan Larkin scored twice, including his 200th NHL goal, and the Detroit Red Wings ended the Vegas Golden Knights’ six-game point streak with a 5-2 win at Little Caesars Arena on Saturday.

Larkin extended his point streak to 11 games (15 points; nine goals, six assists).

“We’ve been playing to an identity,” said Larkin, the Red Wings captain. “We’ve won games in a lot of ways. It feels good, and we’ve got a good thing going in the room.”

Jake Walman, Joe Veleno and Andrew Copp also scored for Detroit (26-18-5), which has won six of its past eight. Moritz Seider and Lucas Raymond each had two assists, and Alex Lyon made 28 saves.

“Our goalie tonight was amazing,” Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde said. “I didn’t like his first (period) -- he didn’t look sharp -- and I thought maybe it had caught up to him how much we’ve played him.

“And then he was just a beast in the second and third.”

Ivan Barbashev and Paul Cotter scored, and Alec Martinez had two assists for Vegas (29-15-6), which was 5-0-1 in its previous six. The Golden Knights went 2-1-1 on a four-game road trip that included a 5-2 win against the New York Rangers on Friday.

“This was a good road trip, but we could have made it great if we had won tonight,” Golden Knights captain Mark Stone said. “We just didn’t generate anything on the power play or 6-on-5.”

Logan Thompson made 24 saves.

“Logan looked good tonight, which is big because you need two goalies in this league,” Golden Knights coach Bruce Cassidy said. “We got to see him a couple times on this trip, and it went as well as we hoped.”

Larkin gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead at 5:04 of the first period, finishing a 3-on-1 break with his 200th goal.

“It’s huge and I’m pretty honored to do it at home,” he said. “It’s something you can look back and be proud of, especially doing it against a team like that in a big win.”

Walman made it 2-0 at 7:00, beating Thompson with a slap shot from the top of the left face-off circle.

Barbashev pulled Vegas within 2-1 at 8:02, diving onto the ice to bat in a rebound with one hand, and Cotter tied it 2-2 at 10:55 with a tip of Martinez’s slap shot.

Veleno put Detroit ahead 3-2 with a power-play goal at 18:17.

“I think special teams were big tonight,” Cassidy said. “They got one on the power play and we didn’t. That meant we had to chase the game late and they got one on the rush.”

Copp pushed the lead to 4-2 at 11:47 of the third period with a wrist shot from the left circle that went over Thompson's glove, and Larkin scored into an empty net at 18:30 for the 5-2 final.

NOTES: The Golden Knights are off until Feb. 6, when they’ll host the Edmonton Oilers following the NHL All-Star break. Edmonton has won 16 straight games and can tie the 1992-93 Pittsburgh Penguins for the NHL record with a victory. … Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault had a six-game point streak end. … Forward Michael Amadio returned to the lineup for the Golden Knights after missing five games with an upper-body injury. He had one shot on goal in 13:34 of ice time. … Seider has 100 assists in 213 games and became the third-fastest Red Wings defenseman to reach the mark (Nicklas Lidstrom, 194; Reed Larson, 185).