Red Wings beat the Devils 3-1

Valtteri Filppula scored 5:32 into the third period, putting the Detroit Red Wings ahead to stay in a 3-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils.

Jimmy Howard made 23 saves, and Darren Helm and Johan Franzen added goals for Detroit. The Red Wings snapped New Jersey’s four-game winning streak and dealt the Devils their first loss in regulation in eight games.

Brian Rolston scored for New Jersey and Martin Brodeur made 26 saves.



Filppula’s goal snapped a 1-1 tie. New Jersey had a goal disallowed with 2:28 remaining when officials ruled Howard was pushed into the net by an attacking player.

Franzen scored with 43.6 seconds to play after the Devils were unable to pull Brodeur for an extra skater.

With the game tied after two periods, Detroit began putting more pressure on and eventually broke through. The puck came to Ruslan Salei at the point. He sent it to Jiri Hudler on the right side, who then found Filppula with a nice cross-ice pass. Filppula beat Brodeur with a wrist shot for his 12th goal of the season.

Later in the period, Howard stopped Dainius Zubrus on a 3-on-1 that began when Detroit’s Patrick Eaves went down injured at center ice. Officials let play continue at first but then gave Rolston a double-minor for high-sticking.

The Red Wings wasted a two-man advantage after a delay-of-game call, but the penalties cost New Jersey valuable time.

Detroit enters the All-Star break in second place in the Western Conference. The Red Wings were again without Pavel Datsyuk, Mike Modano and Tomas Holmstrom, to name a few of their injured scoring threats.

Glad the Wings beat the devils Brodeur was good but not good enough. My Boys cant score and Detroit helped. You are doing great