Red Wings rally to defeat Jets in shootout

WINNIPEG -- Thomas Vanek and Henrik Zetterberg scored in the shootout to help the Detroit Red Wings to a 4-3 win against the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre on Tuesday.
Anthony Mantha and Vanek each scored in the second period to erase Winnipeg's two-goal lead. Tomas Tatar also scored for Detroit (13-11-3).
Petr Mrazek made 31 saves for his eighth win. He's 4-0-2 in his past six starts.

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Vanek's goal in the top half of the third round extended the shootout after Patrik Laine scored for the Jets in the bottom half of the second. Zetterberg scored on a backhand deke in the fourth round, and Mrazek made a save on Drew Stafford to end it.
"It's nice to get the second point, especially with where we are in the standings (two points behind the Boston Bruins for third in the Atlantic Division)," said Zetterberg, who had an assist on Tatar's goal to extend his point streak to five games. "We need all the points we can get. Once you get (to overtime), you might as well get the second one. You've got to be a little bit lucky."
Laine, Dustin Byfuglien and Andrew Copp scored for the Jets (13-13-3), who led 3-1 after the first period. Connor Hellebuyck made 27 saves.
"I think we were pretty good (in the) first period," said Laine, whose 25 points lead NHL rookies. "We didn't just keep going in the second. I don't know what happened. I think we just let the opponent come back into the game. That was just a mistake."

Copp redirected Ben Chiarot's point shot past Mrazek for his fourth goal to make it 1-0 at 6:41. After Tatar batted the puck out of midair to tie it 1-1 at 7:05, Byfuglien scored at 11:22 to put the Jets up 2-1. Laine made it 3-1 at 13:06 with his 17th goal, tied with Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins for the NHL lead.
"We didn't play well the first 20 minutes," Mrazek said. "We said in the dressing room (after the first period) that we had to be better. They were faster, they came hard and forechecked better in the defensive zone."
Mantha scored at 10:59 of the second period to get Detroit to within 3-2. Winnipeg defenseman Toby Enstrom gave the puck away in the Jets zone to Dylan Larkin, who found Mantha in front of the net for his fourth goal.
Vanek tied it 3-3 when he redirected Xavier Ouellet's slap pass by Hellebuyck with 2:08 left in the second period.
"They just did the simple things, got the puck deep, got on the forecheck and kept doing it," Byfuglien said. "We couldn't find a way to take control."
Jets forward Alexander Burmistrov left the game late in the second period because of an upper-body injury. Coach Paul Maurice said he wouldn't have an update until Wednesday.

Goal of the game

Zetterberg faked going to his forehand and put a backhand shot up high over a sprawled Hellebuyck for the deciding goal in the shootout.

Save of the game

Mrazek stopped Bryan Little on a breakaway at 2:56 of overtime. "I was trying to stay big," Mrazek said. "I thought he was going to shoot high glove. I closed the five-hole early.

Highlight of the game

Laine's cross-ice saucer pass set up Byfuglien for his third goal of the season.

Unsung moment of the game

Defenseman Niklas Kronwall tipped a pass to break up a 2-on-1 shorthanded chance by the Jets in the third period.

They said it

"Careful about how much permanence you put on each game. We just played six straight fantastic, full-on periods -- a seventh tonight -- and the second is even in a lot of ways. We were struggling to find some legs in the third, and we couldn't find them." -- Jets coach Paul Maurice
"We've got great culture in our locker room, we've got great leadership, and they responded. They came out in the second and third and played much, much better hockey. Obviously, we still needed good goaltending at certain points of the game, but I just was really happy with the way our guys responded after the first." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill

"It's big. Right now, the standings are so tight one or two points could make a great difference at the end of the year." -- Red Wings forward Anthony Mantha on the extra point from winning the shootout

Need to know

Goalie Jimmy Howard, who has missed six straight games, skated with the Red Wings on Tuesday and will take part in a full practice Thursday, Blashill said.

What's next

Red Wings: Host the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday (7:30 p.m. ET; FS-D+, FS-O, NHL.TV)
Jets:Host the New York Rangers on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; TSN3, MSG, NHL.TV)