ST. LOUIS, Missouri -- The Detroit Red Wings overcame 2-0 and 3-2 deficits Saturday night to earn a 4-3 shootout win over the St. Louis Blues, ending their losing streak at three games and breaking a shutout streak that had almost reached three games.
Todd Bertuzzi scored the game-winner for the Wings, beating St. Louis goalie Chris Mason in the fourth round of the shootout and coming up big at a time when his lack of offense (three goals and nine points on the season) is a concern.
Henrik Zetterberg had tied the game with just 57 seconds remaining in regulation. With Detroit netminder Jimmy Howard on the bench for an extra attacker, Zetterberg threw the puck to the front of the net from behind the goal line and banked it off of defenseman Barret Jackman after a flurry in front. It bounced off Jackman and into the net before Mason even saw it.
David Backes opened the scoring for the Blues with 6:36 left in the first period, tipping a shot by David Perron past Howard.
Roman Polak put St. Louis up by a pair with a seeing-eye shot from the blue line through a screen 3:38 later.
Tomas Holmstrom tipped in a pass from Zetterberg on a Detroit power play to get the Red Wings on the board at 2:35 of the second period.
Nearly a period later, Kris Draper finished on a net-front scramble, tying the game at 2:27 of the third.
Brad Boyes banged home a rebound to put the Blues back in front at 8:32 of the third before Zetterberg tied it.
Detroit scored on their only power play of the game while the Blues were held off the board on two chances with the extra attacker.
Howard made 32 saves on 35 shots against. Mason stopped 33 of 36 chances.
Following along with the radio guys, I'll make my hot hand pick for the night and go with Brad Stuart.
I'll go with Brad May.
Nice stop early by Howard.
What the hell were two forwards doing in behind the Wings defense?
May is gonna try and start a fight on his next shift. I'm gonna turn this off soon, I think.
Now that they said that thing about three consecutive shut-outs in their history, I'm terrified it's going to happen because it seems like everytime a commentator brings an oddball statistic up it happens!
Power play goal, the streak is over!
Holmstrom makes me eat my words! And good thing, too 
Hey, Homer's stick was in the crease, are they sure they don't want to call that one off?
You need a like button on here like on facebook because I always want to click that on half the things you post!
While Abs is serving a goalie interference penalty for driving to the net, Howard gets knocked over from behind and there's no call. Consistent.
You need a like button on here like on facebook because I always want to click that on half the things you post!
That might be coming, I'm behind on a bunch of updates to the site.
Draaapes!
He finished! Hahaha, that's good to see.
Damn. Can we get an intent to blow?
That sucks ): There's still 11 minutes left, though, I have faith!
Empty nets are terrifying things.
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But it was worth it, it just got the Wings the tying goal!
Tie game, motherbitches!
Hooray for the loser point, at the very least we don't go home empty handed.
Shootout. Okay, lots of those today.
Hooray for the loser point, at the very least we don't go home empty handed.
I bet your psyched for the skills competition, then?
I love whoever started that nickname!
Knew McDonald was gonna score, nice move.
God, Pavs is fun to watch.
Howie makes it look easy on Boyes.
No way Z got what he wanted on that.
Cleary as the third shooter? I'd have gone Leino.
Bert finally does something!
I never would have imagined Bertuzzi in the shoot out. But that is awesome
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Oh, and I bet the Blues are probably p*ssed!
I thought that last shot was going to go either very badly or very well. Glad it was the latter. Still want to see Leino or Helm in a shootout but I'm glad it didn't come to that.
Todd Bertuzzi
Credit: Clark Rasmussen
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