Red Wings Edge Past Bruins With 6-5 Home Victory

Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Darren Helm each scored two goals to help lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 6-5 win over the Boston Bruins at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on Sunday. Datsyuk surpassed the 900-point mark with his two goals, earning him a total of 902 points.

Red Wings Edge Past Bruins With 6-5 Home Victory

“For me it’s a big stepping stone, but it [doesn’t] happen without lots of good players I am playing with,” said Datsyuk , who has 902 points. “Lots of helping and supporting, and lots of teaching me, too. Lots of giving me advice. I appreciate all of them.”

There are five other Red Wings players with 900 NHL points or more: Gordie Howe, Steve Yzerman, Alex Delvecchio, Nicklas Lidstrom and Sergei Fedorov. They are all in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Both teams managed to lose two-goal leads before Danny DeKeyser took a shot from the point, which deflected off Zetterberg (who was credited with the goal) and past Boston goalie Jonas Gustavsson with 12:23 left in the game.

Brad Marchand set a franchise record for the Bruins for fastest goal by scoring just 8 seconds into the game. He beat Mrazek with a shot from the right circle, right off a face-off that was won by Boston’s Brett Connolly. Zach Trotman, Loui Eriksson, Dennis Seidenberg and Joonas Kemppainen also scored for the Bruins. Boston goalie Tuukka Rask was pulled after allowing five goals on 24 shots. For the second time in three games, Rask let in five goals. Gustavsson made 10 saves during the game.

Detroit Goalie Petr Mrazek, who celebrated his 24th birthday Sunday, made 17 saves.

Caption: BUFFALO, NY – JANUARY 22: Pavel Datsyuk #13 of the Detroit Red Wings skates with the puck during the game against the Buffalo Sabres on January 22, 2016 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Article by Pablo Mena