The Detroit Red Wings won for the fifth time in their last six games, going to overtime to top a divisional rival.

Defenseman Jake Walman scored in the opening minute of the extra period Saturday at Bell Centre to settle the final score at 5-4 in the Wings’ favor over the Montreal Canadiens.

The Wings (13-7-3) scored three times in the first period as they capitalized on special-teams play, but the Habs didn’t let up as they sought to add to their OT victory earlier in the season against the Wings.

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Gustav Lindstrom, a Detroit prospect who was traded to the Canadiens in the deal that brought defenseman Jeff Petry to the Wings this offseason, scored with four minutes remaining in regulation to tie the game at 4-all.

Joe goes early

The Wings seemed in control after 20 minutes.

Joe Veleno put Detroit up, 1-0, near the midpoint of the first period. From his position near the bottom of the right circle, Veleno connected on a pass from Lucas Raymond and fired the puck behind Jake Allen.

Christian Fischer made it 2-0 when he scored shorthanded, finishing a play set up by Michael Rasmussen as he rushed on Montreal’s net while Dylan Larkin was in the penalty box.

DeBrincat gets No. 200

Daniel Sprong, wearing his new No. 17, put the Wings up 3-0 with 40 seconds left in the first period, but Justin Barron scored on Ville Husso 33 seconds later. The Canadiens pulled closer in the second period when Joel Armia scored shorthanded four minutes in, but the Wings used a power play to restore their two-goal lead when Alex DeBrincat scored less than a minute later, giving him 200 goals for his career — 160 with the Chicago Blackhawks, 27 with the Ottawa Senators and 13 with the Wings.

The Habs made it a one-goal game in the third period when Nick Suzuki fired a shot through traffic, taking advantage of Husso being screened.

LANSING, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) – Two men were charged with multiple felonies for allegedly conducting separate criminal enterprises to defraud the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of funds, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced. 

The men charged are David Jeremy Gillespie, 39, of Detroit, and David Holman, 48, of, Metamora. 

The funds were for contractors conducting demolitions for areas hit by the financial crisis, which included the cities of Detroit and Flint, Nessel said.    

“Criminal enterprises target public funding programs, where hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars are awarded in contracts to fulfill public work,” Nessel said. “We must vigilantly defend public funds from abuse and criminal greed, especially when those crimes impact public health and safety. I am grateful for the investigative work of the Detroit Office of Inspector General, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and the investigators in my office for their work to defend public funds and public health.”

Gillespie is charged for allegedly conducting a scheme at the company he operated, Detroit Environmental Solutions, LLC, fraudulently purported to be a distinct entity from another business, BBEK Environmental (BBEK), to satisfy requirements of TARP-funded demolition contracts obtained by BBEK that required air quality monitoring be conducted by an independent third-party business, Nessel said.

The People allege the business was funded by and operated by principals of BBEK, and was to keep air testing expenses within the scope of revenue for BBEK, according to Nessel.    

Gillespie is charged with:

• One count of Conducting a Criminal Enterprise, a 20-year felony
• One count of False Pretenses: $20,000 – $50,000, a 15-year felony
• One count of False Pretenses: $50,000 – $100,000, a 15-year felony
• One count of False Pretenses: $100,000 or more, a 20-year felony
• One count of Lying to a Peace Officer, a 2-year high court misdemeanor

Holman is charged for allegedly operating a scheme that fraudulently billed TARP and the City of Detroit over $1,000,000 collectively for dirt used to fill demolition sites that his company, Den-Man Contracting, obtained for free from prohibited or unknown sources, Nessel said. 

Holman allegedly knew that the backfill material was in violation of the terms of his multiple City contracts and failed to do any testing to ensure the backfill was not contaminated given the source, according to Nessel.

The City of Detroit has experienced more than $3,500,000 in costs to test the sites where Den-Man Contracting’s prohibited-source dirt was used, according to the attorney general’s office. 

Holman is charged with:

• One count of Conducting a Criminal Enterprise, a 20-year felony
• Five counts of False Pretenses: $100,000 or more, a 20-year felony
• Two counts of False Pretenses: $50,000 – $100,000, a 15-year felony
• Four counts of False Pretenses: $1,000 – $20,000, a 5-year felony

“The requirements by contractors to adhere to all State and Federal laws and regulations and use safe and approved backfill materials and substantiate backfill costs are critical to ensuring TARP funds are properly spent for the public’s safety and program requirements in Detroit,” Melissa Bruce, SIGTARP Principal Deputy Inspector General said.