Red Wings get two late goals for victory

Associated Press

DETROIT

Pavel Datsyuk and Valtteri Filppula scored 1:14 apart late in the third period to break a tie and give the Detroit Red Wings a 5-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.

Tomas Holmstrom had two power-play goals, Datsyuk added two assists and Ian White had a goal and two assists for Detroit. Nicklas Lidstrom and Jiri Hudler had two assists apiece and Jimmy Howard made 19 saves.

Jarome Iginla, Brendan Morrison,Olie Jokinen scored for Calgary. Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 25 shots.

Datsyuk’s attempted pass went in off the skate of Flames’ defenseman Jay Bouwmeetser with 7:21 left for a 5-on-3 power-play goal and Datsyuk’s fifth of the season. Filppula scored on a backhand shot from the left circle with 6:07 left for his fourth goal.

Holmstrom and Jokinen traded power-play goals early in the third period.

White tied the game 2-all, 7:38 into the second period when his harmless-looking shot from the top of the right circle got through Kiprusoff.

Calgary scored on its first two shots of the second period to take a 2-1 lead.

Iginla tied it 1-1, 44 seconds into the middle period when he beat Howard from the bottom of the right circle off a 3-on-2 rush. Morrison’s first goal of the season came at 2:56 on a slap shot from the top of the left circle.

Holmstrom’s power-play goal opened the scoring 6:14 into the game. He tipped in Lidstrom’s shot from out of midair.

Capitals 4, Jets 3, OT

WASHINGTON

Jason Chimera scored his second goal of the game, at 1:52 of overtime, to give the Washington Capitals a 4-3 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday night.

Chimera took a pass from Dennis Wideman and easily re-directed it into the open net.