Red Wings rally with late goals to repel Rangers

DETROIT-- Dylan Larkin scored with six seconds left in overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win against the New York Rangers at Little Caesars Arena on Friday.

"The way we played in the third period was fun hockey," Larkin said. "We just worked and worked and worked until we got those big goals."
Larkin flipped Andreas Athanasiou's pass over Henrik Lundqvist for his first overtime goal in the NHL.
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"I took a look at the clock and [Mike Green] was yelling at me to get the puck up there," said Athanasiou, who had missed four games with an injury. "I saw [Larkin] and I just tried to get it to the net."

Kevin Shattenkirk and Neal Pionk scored power-play goals for New York (7-7-2), which had won four in a row.
"We cheated the game with a 2-0 lead, and you see the result," Rangers coach David Quinn said. "I would have thought we would have learned that lesson now, but we obviously haven't. You can't stop playing in this league."
Detroit (6-8-2) trailed 2-0 before coming back to win each of its past two games.
Athanasiou tied it 2-2 with 2:02 left in the third period, taking a pass from Frans Nielsen and beating Lundqvist with a backhand.
"[Larkin] and [Athanasiou] are difference-makers, and those are the players that win games like this," Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. "Almost every game in this league is a one-goal game, so it comes down to who can make a big play. Those two want to make those plays."

Justin Abdelkader scored a third-period goal for Detroit, which won for the fifth time in six games. Jimmy Howard made 28 saves to win his fourth straight start.
"We finally found the urgency we needed," Howard said. "It took almost 65 minutes, but we were able to accomplish what we wanted to accomplish."
Howard, who wears No. 35 in honor of former Rangers goalie Mike Richter, is 8-3-3 with a .948 save percentage in 15 games against New York.
"Every time we play the Rangers, we know Jimmy is going to put on a show," Larkin said. "He was the only reason we had a chance tonight."

Lundqvist made 28 saves.
"This one hurts, because we had complete control of this game for so long," he said. "We know we should have come out of this one with two points, and now we have to be happy just to get one."
Red Wings forward Jacob de la Rose took a four-minute penalty for cutting Kevin Hayes with a high stick at 16:48 of the second period, and the Rangers scored twice with the man-advantage.
Shattenkirk gave New York a 1-0 lead at 17:53, beating Howard with a high wrist shot from the left face-off circle for his first goal of the season.
Pionk made it 2-0 at 18:33 with a point shot that deflected off Detroit forward Darren Helm.

Abdelkader made it 2-1 at 1:46 of the third period, tipping in Gustav Nyquist's pass.
"That goal changed everything for us," Quinn said. "When they got within one, we got back on our heels and stopped playing our game. We didn't need to play safe, but we needed to play smart."

They said it

"We played with confidence for two periods and then we let them right back into the game. We stopped playing with confidence and started throwing the puck away, and you can't do that in the other team's rink. We needed to stay aggressive." -- Rangers defenseman Marc Staal
"I thought we did a great job of hitting the reset button before the third period, which was good to see, but we can't keep getting down two and expecting to come back. We have to play the first period with the same urgency we have in the third." -- Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill

Need to know

Larkin scored the deciding goal in a 3-2 shootout win against the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday. He has nine points (three goals, six assists) in his past six games. ... Lundqvist remained one win behind Jacques Plante (437) for seventh in NHL history. ... Nyquist has seven points (one goal, six assists) in a six-game point streak. ... De la Rose (upper body) did not play in the third period.

What's next

Rangers: At the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; FS-O, MSG, NHL.TV)
Red Wings: At the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; FS-CR, FS-D, NHL.TV)