Patrick Kane’s assist set up Alex DeBrincat for the overtime winner as the Detroit Red Wings completed a dramatic rally to defeat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-3 on Saturday.
The Red Wings’ comeback victory strengthens their position in the Eastern Conference playoff race, moving to 13-8-1 and extending their recent form to 4-1-1 in their last six games. The Blue Jackets, despite earning a point, fall to 11-8-3, and see a seven-game point streak (4-1-3) snapped. this game highlighted detroit’s resilience and Columbus’s struggles to maintain momentum.
Detroit trailed 3-1 entering the third period, but goals from Ben Chiarot and Moritz Seider tied the game before DeBrincat’s overtime heroics. Cam Talbot made 31 saves for the Red Wings, while Michael greaves stopped 29 shots for the Blue Jackets.
Fantilli opened the scoring for Columbus during a two-man advantage at 13:18 of the first period,capitalizing on a pass from Zach Werenski and beating Talbot with a wrist shot for his seventh goal in eight games.
Lucas Raymond quickly answered for Detroit,tying the game 1-1 just 36 seconds into the second period with a backhand after an unusual bounce off a linesperson following Ivan Provorov’s clearing attempt.
Columbus regained the lead just 18 seconds later when Miles Wood redirected a shot from Denton mateychuk past Talbot at :54 of the second. The play began with Talbot attempting to play the puck behind the net, but Kent Johnson intercepted the pass.
Werenski extended the Blue Jackets’ lead to 3-1 at 8:38 of the third period, flipping a wrist shot over Talbot’s glove during a 4-on-4 situation after receiving a pass from Provorov in the slot.
Chiarot scored for Detroit at 11:48 of the third, and Seider followed up at 16:31, tying the game at 3-3.
DeBrincat then secured the win for Detroit at 2:29 of overtime, assisted by Patrick Kane.
“I didn’t think we were playing poorly,” Detroit coach todd McLellan said. “Yes, we’re down 3-1, and that’s been a problem at times, but we’ve also had games where we have really showed resilience in those situations. We did that again today.”
“We loved our second period — that was the best period we’ve played for a while,” Columbus coach Dean Evason said. “We just didn’t back that up with the same level in the third period.”
