Red Wings play New York Rangers

Top-flight player Andreas Athanasiou, coming off four games lost after an injury, tied the match with 2:02 to play in regulation.

And then, in overtime, Athanasiou neatly fed Dylan Larkin who jumped into the Rangers' area to beat Henrik Lundqvist for his seventh goal of the season.

Larkin's victory count came 5.1 seconds early in overtime at the Little Caesars Arena.

Justin Abdelkader and Athanasiou's goals in the third period erased a 2-0 lead for the Rangers, who won the power play double by Kevin Shattenkirk and Neal Pionk.

"I just looked at the puck and saw that it was sinking a bit," Athanasiou said of the start of the three-to-three overtime period. "And I was screaming a bit to get the puck. Greener did a good job getting the puck up there.

"The Alouettes ran the net very well, and luckily the pass went by. He made a good game to put it. "

Jeff Blashill believes that Athanasiou has been blocked and has made considerable efforts from the first day of the training camp this season after the talks delayed the start of his 2017-18 season.

"I think it's really a good feeling to go back to hockey, again," said Athanasiou, following a leg injury. "Of course, it feels good to win. Whenever you can win, you can build on that performance. "

Larkin's exploits, including a time of 24:04 on the ice, two shots on goal in five attempts, three shots on goal and 17-7 in action, sealed the win.

He scored his second consecutive winning goal – both thanks to the win win of the Wings.

"The points, for the moment, for the team are the most important," said Larkin. "We started in a hole and we did not get anything special in the first seven or eight games of the season and it was frustrating.

"But as we played in the third period, it was fun hockey. And we worked and worked and worked. "

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In the first two periods, the Wings nearly succumbed to penalty problems and the chronic inability of their defensive corps to move the puck out of their area.

In the first period, the Red Wings killed Mike Green by scoring a penalty in the 25th second, giving up two shots.

After eliminating another penalty – that imposed on Darren Helm for delaying the game at 6:01 – they had considerable problems in their own zone.

They experienced one of their worst possession periods of the season, giving the puck 13 times in the first 20 minutes.

Their veteran defenders were the most culpable, with Daley scoring three giveaways while DeKeyser and Green each had two.

Howard worked to keep the Wings in the game, making huge saves on Chris Krieder, cleverly moving through the crease to stop a shot with his blocker, and Jesper Fast, after the Rangers fell to him. butt.

The Rangers dominated the Red Wings 11-6 in the period.

"We could not get the puck out of the zone, number one," said Blashill. "And the second thing is that I thought we had been overwhelmed. They came to compete and we were not ready.

"It can not happen. We must be better than that. "

The second period started about the same thing. But slowly, the Wings began to tip the ice to the Rangers.

Just after 7 minutes, they almost took the advantage.

Michael Rasmussen skates powerfully in the left wing in the Rangers area and, while avoiding a left arm defender and controlling the puck with his right, he makes his way up the wall and beats Lundqvist as he passes. in front of the goal.

But the referees immediately whistled the game for a pass.

Then at 4:48 pm Jacob de la Rose was awarded a four-minute penalty for his dangerous game.

The Rangers hit twice.

Shattenkirk beat Howard high, with an instant shot of 27 feet, at 17:53. At 6:33 pm, Pionk fired a wrist shot from the Wings defender's blue line in front of Howard.

Then, the Red Wings took over in the third, establishing a geographical superiority and ahead of New York 13-7.

A little more than a minute and a half after the start of the period, they managed to victimize a former teammate, revealing one of his weaknesses.

While Rangers defenseman Brendan Smith was trying to get the puck out of his own net, he failed to account for Gustav Nyquist.

On a close failure, Nyquist met Smith face to face on the side of the net, to Lundqvist's left.

Smith stopped abruptly.

Nyquist swept the puck and, in the blink of an eye, he spotted Abdelkader attacking him and feeding him the puck.

Abdelkader reduced his lead in half-time with his fourth goal of the season, Nyquist's 12th assist in 16 games played.

Then, the road of the young guns to the rescue.

"That's what guys do the difference," Blashill said of Athanasiou and Larkin's performances late in the game. "I think both want to be that player who makes the difference.

"You have to play big games in big moments. I've said a lot that we sit right here every night after another game with a goal: it's who's playing a game in a big time, and I think both of them want those moments and want to be on the ice.

"And, if they can do it, it's a huge thing."