Simon Edvinsson scored a pair of goals, including the go-ahead goal with 9:12 remaining, as the host Detroit Red Wings rallied from a four-goal deficit to stun the St. Louis Blues 6-4 on Saturday.
Alex DeBrincat scored the game-tying goal less than a minute earlier. Jonatan Berggren, Emmitt Finnie and J.T. Compher had second-period goals for Detroit, while John Gibson made 25 saves. Andrew Copp chipped in two assists.
Jake Neighbours scored twice for the Blues, who have lost three straight. Pavel Buchnevich scored while playing his 300th career game with St. Louis and Jordan Kyrou tallied the Blues’ other goal. Robert Thomas, Jimmy Snuggerud and Justin Faulk had two assists apiece, while Jordan Binnington made 22 saves.
St. Louis outshot Detroit 12-4 in the first 20 minutes while grabbing a two-goal advantage.
Kyrou scored the game’s first goal at 7:43 of the first period. With Detroit’s James van Riemsdyk in the penalty box for tripping, Kyrou skated in from the point and rifled a shot past Gibson.
Neighbours made it 2-0 with his first goal of the game. Justin Faulk shoveled the puck from the right circle toward the net and Neighbours tapped it in.
The Blues scored 59 seconds into the second period on another power play. With Edvinsson in the box for holding, Dylan Holloway passed the puck from the right circle and Buchnevich deflected it past Gibson.
St. Louis soon made it 4-0 on Neighbours’ team-high sixth goal. Thomas beat several defenders to a loose puck in the Red Wings zone and backhanded it to Neighbours, who scored from the slot. Snuggerud added the second assist.
Berggren got the Red Wings on the board with a power-play goal in the second period. He scored from the right circle off an Andrew Copp feed.
Detroit scored twice in the final 1:26 of the period to pull within a goal. Finnie scored in front off a Dylan Larkin pass that bounced off Faulk’s stick. Compher then redirected a Travis Hamonic shot.
DeBrincat’s goal midway through the third tied the contest. He skated into the Blues zone, moved to the slot and beat Binnington on the stick side.
–Field Level Media
