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 Anaheim scored four goals in the first period after falling behind
1-0 a little more than three minutes into the game en route to a 5-2
victory over the Detroit Red Wings at the Joe Louis Arena.
Detroit right winger Tomas Jurco scored his first career goal 3:15
into the game, but right winger Jakob Silfverberg tied it just 25
seconds later and center Nick Bonino scored 5:29 into the game to
make it 2-1.
"When Silfverberg scored, I think it deflated them a little bit,"
Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "But when Bonin (Bonino) scored, it
really deflated them."
Right winger Corey Perry and defenseman Sami Vatanen, who led the
way with a goal and an assist,
also scored in the first. It was the Ducks sixth straight win.
Center Saku Koivu also scored and center Andrew Cogliano had three
assists for Anaheim (24-7-5). Goaltender Jonas Hiller made 16 saves.
It was the first game between the two teams since the Red Wings
upset the Ducks in seven games in the first round of the Stanley Cup
Playoffs last spring.
"I don't know if it was a big game for us after last spring but it
was big game for us to have a good start on the road trip," Hiller
said.
Right winger Danny Cleary also scored for Detroit (15-12-9), which
lost its third straight in regulation and is winless in its last six
(0-4-2). Goalie Jonas Gustavsson stopped eight of 11 shots before
being replaced by Petr Mrazek late in the first period.
Mrazek made 17 saves.
"I liked how we started. Things were going pretty good for about
three minutes. Obviously, it didn't go very well for us," Detroit
coach Mike Babcock said. "They shot the puck in the net and we lost
momentum very fast and didn't have a very good effort from that
point on."
The Red Wings are missing a lot of their key players. Center and
captain Henrik Zetterberg (herniated disc), centers Darren Helm
(shoulder) and Steven Weiss (groin) and defenseman Danny DeKeyser
(separated shoulder) are all on the long-term injured reserve,
goalie Jimmy Howard (knee) is out , right winger Johan Franzen and
left winger Justin Abdelkader are out with possible concussions and
right winger Gustav Nyquist missed the game with a sore groin.
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"It's got no part of it. There's no excuse whatsoever.
Injuries got nothing to do with it," Detroit defenseman Niklas
Kronwall said when asked about the injuries.
"We got to get back to basics, but at the same time, enough
talking, we've been talking about. It's time for us to get out
there and actually show it on the ice."
After Jurco scored on a breakaway, Silfverberg, in his first
game back after missing 24 games with a broken right hand, tied
it by putting in the carom off the end boards — which came off
defenseman Francois Beauchemin's wide shot — for his fifth
goal. Bonino then put in a one-timer from the bottom of the left
circle for his 10th goal.
Perry scored his 22nd goal of the season with 1:43 left in the
period from the right circle off the rush to chase Gustavsson in
favor of Mrazek.
Vatanen made it 4-1 on a slap shot from the right circle with a
second left in the first for his fourth goal.
Koivu scored for the Ducks in the second period to make it 5-1
before Cleary got his goal with less than two minutes left in
the third.
NOTES: Anaheim C Ryan Getzlaf went to the dressing room with
5:40 left in the first period after being shoved into the boards
from behind by Detroit D Kyle Quincey. Getzlaf's mouth was cut,
and Quincey received a five-minute boarding penalty and a game
misconduct. He could face a suspension from the league.
Getzlaf's 16-game point streak was snapped. He had points in two
games before missing three games with an injury, then continued
the run when he returned. ... Anaheim D Mark Fistric missed his
third game with an upper-body injury. ... Jurco was playing in
his second NHL game. He was called up from the Red Wings' AHL
Grand Rapids affiliate on Sunday. ... Riley Sheahan, who was
recalled from Grand Rapids on Monday, made his season debut for
Detroit.
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