Red Wings beat Flames 4-2, ending 3-game winless stretch

Dylan Larkin, Brad Richards, Gustav Nyquist and Justin Abdelkader scored for the Wings, who got a 26-save performance from Petr Mrazek in net. New Jersey halted a four-game losing streak (0-3-1) in the series with a 3-2 overtime victory over the Red Wings on December 11.TV: 7:30 p.m. ET, MSG-Plus (New Jersey), FSN-Plus DetroitABOUT THE DEVILS (16-13-5): New Jersey wound up short-handed in its 2-1 shootout loss at Boston on Sunday after forwards Jacob Josefson and Sergey Kalinin each had to leave the game with knee injuries, but both players were back at practice Monday and are expected to play.

The Detroit Red Wings dug out from a three-goal hole to make a game of it.

New Jersey took the game’s first penalty when it was called for delay of game exactly midway through the first period.

“I was embarrassed at the job I did to get our team ready to go out and play (Friday)”, Blashill said.

Calgary’s Dennis Wideman broke a scoreless tie in the first period.

Larkin made it 1-all 7:46 into the second period, scoring off a rebound and ending a five-game stretch without a goal, after the Flames failed to clear the puck.

Coach Bob Hartley tells Flames TV that turnovers were a big difference in this game. The Devils now sit in fourth place in the Metropolitan Division and are led by former Michigan Wolverine Mike Cammalleri’s 12 goals and 32 points. It was Wideman’s first goal of the season. Defensively, the New Jersey Devils are allowing 2.4 goals per game and are killing 82.9 percent of their power play chances. In 25 career National Hockey League games, he has two goals and one assist.

“We were working on a little bit different options there and I wanted to try him on the power play in that spot”, Blashill said. We count non-votes as neutral, so if you don’t think a guy was particularly good or bad, don’t give him a vote (Non-votes are counted as the difference between the number of votes a player gets and the number of votes the most-voted-on player receives).

Comeback attempts dimmed early in the third period, when Jakub Kindl turned the puck over deep in his own zone.

While the Flames have struggled for a few years in St. Louis, they’ve had much better success at the home of the Red Wings, having posted a 6-2-2 mark in their last 10 visits. The Red Wings recalled D Xavier Ouellet and C Tomas Nosek from Grand Rapids of the AHL on Saturday.