In Detroit, the Red Wings held a 5-1 lead after 2o minutes of play on Friday night.
They surrendered five goals to the Philadelphia Flyers t fall behind, 6-5 in the third period.
Dylan Larkin tied the game, 6-6, at 15:30 of the third period to force extra time which solved nothing.
Patrick Kane, who had a double and three points on the night, hit for the deciding goal on penalties to give Detroit a 7-6 win.
Detroit moved to 16-13-4.
“This is big for us,” Detroit’s Alex DeBrincat said. “We’ve obviously been fighting it for a little bit, so a win is huge for us. Now we need to keep this rolling and hopefully get another win tomorrow.”
James Reimer made 37 saves in the win.
“I give Reimer a lot of credit,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “He was obviously fighting it tonight, but he got us through the overtime and won it for us in the shootout.”
The opening stanza was a flurry of goal scoring from Detroit, they took a 1-0 lead at 4:30 as Kane picked up his first of the night.
Kane’s double came at 8:16 for a 2-0 advantage to the Red Wings.
The Flyers got one back when Bobby Brink scored off an odd man rush to trim the deficit to 2- at 9:00.
The Red Wings replied with a goal from Daniel Sprong off a power play at 14:55 for a 3-1 lead.
J.T. Compher ballooned the lead to 4-1 at 15:38.
Shayne Gostisbehere scored with 18 seconds left in the first to send it to the middle frame with Detroit up, 5-1.
The Flyers dropped to 18-11-4.
“No one in this locker room is happy that we lost,” the Flyers’ Garnet Hathaway said. “I’m happy that we got one point instead of zero. This is a big learning step for us.”
In the second, the house started to fall in on Detroit.
In the middle frame, Sean Couturier started the rally with a goal at 3:37 for a 5-2 deficit for the Flyers.
Morgan Frost then potted a marker a27 seconds later to trim the deficit to 5-3 headed to the third.
In the third, the Flyers rally continued with three more goals to take the lead.
Hathaway cut the deficit to 5-4 at 5:51.
Scott Laughton then banged home a rebound chance to tie it, 5-5, at at 13:30.
“[It] feels nice to contribute there, in the third especially, and to get on the board,” Laughton said. “… Obviously [we] would’ve liked to get the two points, but the way we battled back, we can take a lot from it.”
The Flyers took a 6-5 lead at 14:53. Reimer stopped Owen Tippett scored the go-ahead goal at 14:35 to give the Flyers an improbable, 6-5 lead.
“I think sometimes when you’re in a slump you just need something to go your way,” Kane said. “Obviously we had a great start, but it starts becoming maybe 5-3, 5-4, maybe a little doubt creeps in, but I thought we did a great job of hanging in there. Big goal by ‘Larks’ to make it 6-6, and then [we] get another point in the shootout. So, nice to get a win and kind of feel good about ourselves.”
Carter Hart made 31 saves in the loss.
“Obviously, it was a tough first period, but we stuck with it and battled to get a point,” Hart said. “That’s huge.”
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