Red Wings end 6-game skid, Alex Nedeljkovic has 47 saves vs. Bruins

Jakub Vrána had a objective and an help, Alex Nedeljkovic made a season-high 47 saves and had an help, and the Detroit Purple Wings defeated the Boston Bruins 5-3 on Tuesday evening.

“It felt just like the puck wasn’t going to go in,” Purple Wings coach Jeff Blashill stated. “That’s when you understand your goalie is on high of his sport. It felt like he was undoubtedly on high of his sport.”

The victory snapped a six-game dropping streak for Detroit and halted Boston’s three-game win streak.

“We simply sort of made errors we couldn’t overcome,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy stated.

Dylan Larkin, Michael Rasmussen, Filip Zadina and Sam Gagner additionally scored for Detroit.

The Bruins received objectives from Erik Haula, Brandon Carlo and Patrice Bergeron, and Jeremy Swayman made 24 saves.

Zadina broke a 2-all tie at 11:32 within the second interval. Swayman had moved to cowl Vrána on the left facet of the web and Vrána discovered Zadina for his ninth objective of the season.

Vrána’s objective got here on the ability play at 4:08 of the third, when he fought by means of site visitors and fired the puck from the left dot into the highest left nook of the web.

“I noticed they had been a bit of flat-footed on the blue line so I attempted to get there a bit of sooner and I used to be capable of nonetheless capable of get the shot on web, so I used to be completely happy about that,” Vrána stated.

The Boston Bruins struck first with two objectives within the first interval, Haula at 4:43 and a shorthanded rating by Carlo with about six minutes left.

With Oskar Sundqvist screening Swayman, Larkin scored with 39.3 seconds left within the first, two seconds after the staff’s energy play had expired. It was Larkin’s thirtieth objective of the season, the second time in his profession he has reached the 30-goal mark. He had a career-best 32 throughout the 2018-19 season.

Rasmussen tied the sport at 5:46 of the second interval for his third objective in 4 video games.

The Bruins pulled inside one on Bergeron’s objective with about three minutes left. Charlie McAvoy assisted, extending his help streak to 6 video games.

“I feel it’s consideration to element during,” Bergeron stated. “You possibly can’t put your foot off the gasoline pedal on the finish, particularly late in durations. It provides the opposite staff momentum. Positively have to rectify that.”

Gagner scored the empty-net objective with 47 seconds left.

INJURY LOSS

Boston Bruins defenseman Hampus Lindholm left the sport within the third interval with a lower-body harm.

ROOKIE SENSATIONS

Purple Wings rookie defenseman Moritz Seider and ahead Lucas Raymond assisted on Larkin’s first-period objective. Seider leads all rookies with 40 assists. Raymond is second amongst rookies in factors with 53.

ROSTER MOVES

The Purple Wings recalled middle Kyle Crisculo from the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins underneath emergency situations. Criscuolo was a wholesome scratch. … The Bruins performed with out co-leading scorer David Pastrnak, who aggravated an harm Monday evening in Columbus, and middle Trent Frederic, who suffered an upper-body harm within the second interval Monday. Defenseman Derek Forbort returned to the lineup after lacking one sport with a lower-body harm.

BACK-TO-BACK

The Bruins accomplished their ninth of 10 units of back-to-back video games this season, falling to 4-5 within the second video games.

UP NEXT

Bruins: At Tampa Bay on Friday evening.

Purple Wings: At Winnipeg on Wednesday evening.