Patrick Kane scored the go-ahead goal at 7:22 of the third period, and the Detroit Red Wings held on for a 6-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night.
J.T. Compher and Lucas Raymond each contributed a goal and an assist, while Alex DeBrincat, Michael Rasmussen, and Joe Veleno scored the other goals. Dylan Larkin had two assists for Detroit, which has won three of its last four games.
Alex Lyon, who was playing his first game since November 25, made 15 saves.
For the Flyers, Travis Konecny, Noah Cates, Ryan Poehling, and Owen Tippett scored. Philadelphia is 2-4-1 in its last seven games. Samuel Ersson made 18 saves.
The Flyers took the lead just 1:06 into the game when Konecny scored on a breakaway, sending a backhand shot through Lyon’s legs. Joel Farabee and Sean Couturier assisted on the play.
The Red Wings got a four-minute power play late in the period when Tippett was called for a double minor for high sticking.
Compher scored his first goal in 22 games during the power play, redirecting a pass from Dylan Larkin.
Detroit went up 2-1 with 9:45 left in the second period. Kane skated into the right circle and passed to the opposite circle, where DeBrincat one-timed the puck past Ersson.
The Flyers quickly tied the game 25 seconds later, as Cates redirected a Tyson Foerster shot.
Detroit regained the lead with 3:55 remaining in the second. Compher won a faceoff, and Rasmussen fired a shot that slipped past Ersson’s glove.
A little over a minute later, Veleno stole the puck in his own zone, leading to a breakaway. He received a pass from Christian Fischer and scored with a shot that went just under the crossbar, putting the Wings ahead 4-2.
Poehling scored in front off a feed from Couturier at 3:50 of the third period to make it 4-3. Tippett tied the game with less than two minutes left, carrying the puck into Detroit’s zone, skating around Lyon, and putting the puck in the net.
The Red Wings regained the lead 5-4 when Kane scored his first goal in 11 games, firing a shot from the left circle off a pass from Moritz Seider.
Raymond sealed the win with an empty-net goal.
