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With 113 points, the Red Wings took the Presidents' Trophy as the regular-season points leaders and earned home-ice advantage throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Mark Hartigan and Johan Franzen also scored for Detroit, and Dominik Hasek made 20 saves.
Ron Hainsey and Aaron Rome had the Blue Jackets' goals, and Pascal Leclaire stopped 36 shots.
Franzen's power-play goal with 3:27 left tied it at 2. He put in a rebound for his 27th goal, giving him 15 goals and four assists in his last 15 games.
Zetterberg got his winner by banking the puck off Leclaire from behind the net for his 43rd goal.
Rome gave Columbus a 2-1 lead 4:05 into the second period. His shot from the right point went through Hasek's pads for his first career goal.
Hainsey got the game's first goal, 7:13 into the second period, on the power play. He beat Hasek with a slap shot from the slot area for his eighth of the season.
Hartigan tied it just 2:35 later when he put one in from a goal-mouth scramble.
Notes: Detroit signed LW Justin Abdelkader to a professional tryout. He's played at Michigan State the last three seasons and was the Red Wings second-round pick (42nd overall) in the 2005 NHL Draft. The Muskegon, MI., native made his NHL debut Thursday night. ... Hainsey returned after missing a game with a head injury. .. The Red Wings were without LW Kirk Maltby (hamstring), D Brad Stuart (broken finger), C Kris Draper (groin), RW Mikael Samuelsson (groin) and RW Tomas Holmstrom (lower abdominal). ... RW David Vyborny (flu) and C Jiri Novotny (thigh) sat out for the Blue Jackets. ... Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland dropped the puck for a ceremonial faceoff before the game. ... Detroit C Tomas Kopecky limped off the ice 6:48 into the second period after having his legs taken out from under him in a collision with Columbus' Manny Malhotra.
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