NEW YORK (AP) — Pius Suter scored the winner in the sixth round of the shootout, and Thomas Greiss made 37 saves as the Detroit Red Wings beat the New York Rangers 3-2 Thursday night.
Detroit’s Lucas Raymond and the Rangers Mika Zibanjead each scored in the first round of the shootout, abd each team missed its next four chances. Suter beat Igor Shesterkin and Rangers forward Filip Chytil failed to convert.
Troy Stecher and Dylan Larkin scored for Detroit, which won for the fourth time in six games.
K’Andre Miller and Mika Zibanejad scored in regulation for the Rangers, who are 16-4-3 at home and had their three-game winning streak halted. Shesterkin made 31 saves.
The Red Wings were clinging to a 2-1 lead when Zibanejad tied the game with a power-play goal at 11:51 of the third. Adam Fox and Artemi Panarin assisted on Zibanejad’s 19th goal of the season.
Shesterkin made a sterling glove save on Larkin with 40 seconds left to force the contest to overtime.
Greiss stopped Zibanejad twice early in overtime. Shesterkin made an acrobatic stop on Tyler Bertuzzi to keep the action going.
Larkin put Detroit ahead at 13:48 of the second 90 seconds after Miller tied the game for the first time.
Stecher opened the scoring at 2:18 of the first when his long shot from inside the blue line eluded Shesterkin. The goal was the first this season for Stecher. Adam Erne assisted.
Miller, who scored the shootout winner against Boston on Tuesday, tied the contest on a wraparound at 12:18 of the second. The goal was the fourth of the season for Miller. Goodrow registered the lone assist.
Larkin put the visitors ahead again at 13:48 with his team-leading 26th goal. Larkin has 10 goals in his 12 games and 16 goals in his last 22 contests overall. Defense partners Danny DeKeyser and rookie Moritz Seider assisted.
In the third, Greiss denied Alexis Lafreniere’s one-timer two minutes into the stanza and a point-blank shot by Ryan Reaves from the right circle four minutes later, before Zibanejad beat him with a one-timer from the left circle.
STAAL RETURNS
Former Rangers defenseman Marc Staal, who played 892 games for the team over 13 seasons and myriad playoff appearances, returned to Madison Square Garden for the first time since he was traded to Detroit in September 2020. The 35-year-old Staal waved to the Garden crowd from the Red Wings bench following a video tribute and loud ovation early in the first period.
DETROIT MEMORIES
Rangers coach Gerard Gallant, who played nine seasons and scored 30-plus goals four straight seasons with Detroit, has fond memories of his tenure with the Red Wings during the 1980s. “I loved my time in Detroit. I loved every minute,’’ Gallant said before the game. “I was proud to be a Detroit Red Wing, proud to get drafted into that organization. I still have a lot of good friends there, obviously teammates like Stevie Yzerman and some of those guys. It was great.”
NOTES: The teams meet again March 30 in Detroit and April 16 in New York … The Rangers scratched center Morgan Barron and defenseman Libor Hajek, and were without injured forward Kaapo Kakko for the eighth straight game. … The Red Wings scratched former Rangers player Vladislav Namestnikov and defensemen Jordan Oesterle and Gustav Lindstrom.
UP NEXT
Rangers: Visiting Ottawa Senators on Sunday.
Red Wings: Hosting Colorado Avalanche next Wednesday.
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