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WINNIPEG – Only the struggling Winnipeg Jets stood between the Detroit Red Wings and a perfect trip through Western Canada.
But the Jets overcame Detroit goaltender Jimmy Howard's 43-save evening and took a 4-2 decision Monday night at MTS Centre. The win ended the Jets' three-game losing streak and Detroit's three-game string of victories.
Winnipeg's Matt Halischuk broke a 2-2 game 4:27 into the third period with his first goal of the season. Halischuk took Michael Frolik's behind-the-net pass and rammed a shot from the low slot through Howard's pads. The Jets' third line featuring Halischuk and Frolik flanking rookie center Mark Scheifele threatened the Red Wings throughout the game. Scheifele picked up two assists.
Jets captain Andrew Ladd finished off the Red Wings, interrupting a nine-game run without a goal by backhanding a shot under Howard with 9:03 remaining.
The Red Wings (9-5-2) finished a four-game tour with their first trip to Winnipeg since they ended the city's original NHL run on April 28, 1996, in a first-round series against the original Jets. Detroit had taken one-goal decisions against the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames before blowing out the Edmonton Oilers 5-0 on Saturday.
Before meeting the Red Wings, the Jets (6-8-2) had one win over their past seven games and three wins in nine home dates this season. Winnipeg's goaltending and 26th-ranked power play (locked in a 1-for 37 slump over 11 games) have headlined the team's struggles, but injuries to much of its blue line and a lower-body injury that sidelined Evander Kane also compounded the Jets' problems.
But Winnipeg received goaltending from Al Montoya that often matched Howard's work. Montoya made his third start of the season for the Jets and continued his strong play. Montoya, who relieved Ondrej Pavelec this past Saturday in a 5-1 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, made 26 saves. In his only other home start this season, Montoya shut out the New Jersey Devils on Oct. 13.
Winnipeg's Bryan Little scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season for the Jets in his 16th game, passing his 48-game output that he posted in the 2012-13 season. Henrik Zetterberg's team-best eighth goal in the second period broke a 1-0 Winnipeg lead.
Danny DeKeyser then collected his first NHL goal 2:56 after Zetterberg's goal with the Red Wings shorthanded, putting Detroit up 2-1, its only lead of the game. But Frolik tied the game late in the second period off a feed from Scheifele to send the teams into the second intermission at 2-2.
Howard returned to Detroit's net after Petr Mrazek gave him a night off in Edmonton. But Winnipeg shooters pushed Howard back into action quickly, and he had 29 saves by the end of the second period.
Howard guided the Red Wings through an early barrage of Winnipeg shots. Winnipeg held an 11-2 shots advantage by the middle of the period, but Howard gloved Zach Bogosian's point blast, stopped Ladd's breakaway, and cut off Olli Jokinen's in-close chance with another glove save. Later in the period with the Red Wings on their first power play, Howard put a right pad on Halischuk's drive to the net.
Little solved Howard with a minute remaining in the first, taking advantage of Kyle Quincey's stumble at the Winnipeg line and taking the puck in alone on Howard before squeezing it through the pads for a 1-0 lead.
Montoya continued his strong play into the second period before Zetterberg broke him at 7:09. Zetterberg drove down the left boards and directed a hard pass into the slot that caromed off Winnipeg defenseman Grant Clitsome's skate and into the net to tie the game 1-1.
Detroit capitalized on Winnipeg's struggling penalty kill, driving the Jets into their own zone, winning a left-circle draw and working the puck back to DeKeyser, who ripped a shot from the high point past Montoya at 10:05 for the Red Wings' first lead.
The Jets' third line clicked late in the second period when Scheifele sped down the right side before connecting with Frolik, who slipped a low shot under Howard from the bottom of the slot at 17:04.
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