Trending: Michigan native DeBrincat steals show for Blackhawks

DETROIT -- It was 11 days ago when the Red Wings went into Chicago and shut out the Blackhawks, 4-0.
On Thursday night at Little Caesars Arena, the Blackhawks returned the favor, defeating the Wings, 5-1.

The Wings fell to 19-21-8 overall and 10-10-7 at home while the Blackhawks improved to 23-19-7 overall and 11-9-4 on the road.
Alex DeBrincat (hat trick), Anthony Duclair and Vinnie Hinostroza scored for Chicago and Anthony Mantha scored for Detroit.
1. Anthony Mantha: Mantha has had his ups and downs this season but he appears to be ascending at the moment. Mantha scored the Wings' only goal on the power play at 16:09 of the third when he went to the net and deflected the puck past Blackhawks goaltender Anton Forsberg. It was Mantha's team-leading 16th goal. Captain Henrik Zetterberg and Niklas Kronwall assisted on the goal. For Zetterberg, it marked his 604th career assist, tying him with Pavel Datsyuk for fifth in team history. The top four are Steve Yzerman (1,063), Gordie Howe (1,023), Nicklas Lidstrom (878) and Alex Delvecchio (825).
Quotable: "I think Anthony for three games in a row has played very good. I think he's skated on a consistent basis for three games in a row. When I look at bright spots tonight, I think Anthony three games in a row has been very good. I think Danny DeKeyser has been very good for the last month and a half. Those are two real important pieces for us to be a good team. I think we need to make sure we have everybody going every night and we didn't have everybody going at the beginning of the game." - Wings coach Jeff Blashill
Quotable II: "I thought our line had some chances. It was nice to see that he got there and got one on the power play." - Zetterberg
2. Jimmy Howard/Petr Mrazek: The first inkling that it was going to be a tough night for the Wings and their goaltenders came at 3:19 of the first period when rookie forward Alex DeBrincat of Farmington Hills spun, shot and the puck went in off of Niklas Kronwall's stick and into the net. At 5:43 of the first, Anthony Duclair made it 2-0. A little more than three minutes later, it was 3-0 Chicago as Vinnie Hinostroza came in on a 2-on-1 and beat Howard. That was the end of Howard's night, the first time in his career he'd been pulled before 10 minutes had elapsed in a game. He allowed three goals on nine shots. Mrazek, who shut out the Blackhawks in Chicago on Jan. 14, allowed DeBrincat's second goal at 11:31 of the second, a give-and-go with Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews. Mrazek finished with 17 saves.
Quotable: "The game didn't go how we wanted from the start. We had some bad bounces there of course, off the stick for the first goal. It's always hard when you're down 3-0 in the first eight or nine minutes. We tried to fight, I think we fought really well, tried to come back, hit a couple posts, had lots of chances in the end. We have to keep doing what we did in the third period." - Mrazek
Quotable II: "Really bad start from us. Too many guys who were not ready to go when the puck dropped. That's unacceptable. That's on me. I gotta get the guys ready when the puck is dropped. We've been playing decent hockey lately, even though we haven't got results, and then we're not ready when we have four days off afterward. We have to be better from the start. We have to be able to play. Say what you want about the goals. Obviously, a few of them maybe we'll want to have back. We're creating stuff. I don't know how many posts we had when we were getting in their end, so we were creating chances but even those goals would have gone in, I wasn't sure whether we would have won anyways, because we let in three in the first, and it ended up being five." - Zetterberg
3. Alex DeBrincat: The Farmington Hills native made the most of his only visit home this season by pacing the Blackhawks' attack with his second career hat trick and an assist. Entering Thursday's game, the rookie forward was Chicago's fourth-leading scorer with 14 goals among his 28 points. DeBrincat was 10th in rookie scoring in the NHL and depending on the outcome of Thursday's games, he could move into a three-way tie for fifth among NHL rookies in scoring with 17 goals and 15 assists for 32 points and he is plus-7. His 17 goals are tied for second-most among NHL rookies with Tampa's Yanni Gourde. Vancouver's Brock Boeser is first with 24 goals.
Quotable: "It feels really good, the puck was bouncing my way today. It feels good to get it done in front of my family and friends. I never played in the Joe before, that would've definitely been cool, but this is a great rink and it always fun to come home." - DeBrincat
Quotable II: "We are all hard-working, we all have skill. We complement each other well; we like to use our speed and create open spaces for each other. A lot of communication is very key getting off the bench and just improving every game. Some nights we're going to have a lot of opportunities and it's not going to go in, but you've got to stay positive. We talked about it before the game, we knew goals were coming, it was just a matter of time." - Anthony Duclair (one goal, two assists, plus-4) on playing with DeBrincat and Jonathan Toews