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DETROIT — Daniel Sedin scored his second goal of the game with 15.4 seconds left in regulation and Alex Burrows had the only score in a shootout, lifting the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-3 victory that snapped the Detroit Red Wings’ NHL-record 23-game home winning streak.
Detroit hadn’t lost at Joe Louis Arena since Nov. 3 against Calgary.
The NHL-leading Red Wings hold a one-point lead over Vancouver in the Western Conference. The Canucks have won an NHL-high 21 games on the road this season.
A sold-out crowd stood during the shootout, which started with Roberto Luongo stopping Jiri Hudler’s shot and Jimmy Howard going low to smother David Booth’s attempt.
Henrik Zetterberg missed the net on Detroit’s second attempt and Alexander Edler was denied.
Todd Bertuzzi, who signed a two-year extension with the Red Wings, couldn’t put his team ahead and Burrows took advantage with a backhand.
Detroit was 16 seconds away from getting the win in regulation, but the Canucks pulled Luongo to have an extra skater in the Red Wings end for a faceoff.
Sedin took a slap shot from the slot that Howard never saw after his teammates failed to clear the puck when it was behind the net.
Justin Abdelkader scored with 6:14 left in the third period to give Detroit a 3-2 lead — 20 seconds after Vancouver’s Cody Hodgson tied the game.
Newly acquired defenseman Kyle Quincey scored to put Detroit ahead 6:05 into the third period and Darren Helm had a goal 11:16 into the game to give the Red Wings a 1-0 lead.
Sedin tied it at 1 at 13:34 of the second and Hodgson tied it again, getting credit for a goal that went in off the right skate of Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall.
Quincey, in the first game of his second stint with the Red Wings, couldn’t hide his smile on the bench after putting them ahead 2-1.
The Red Wings, who drafted Quincey in 2003, acquired him for a first-round pick and prospect Sebastien Piche from Tampa Bay on Tuesday in a three-team trade with Colorado.
Luongo made 33 saves and Howard had 40 stops.
Detroit led 1-0 after the first period despite being outplayed.
Vancouver outshot the Red Wings 17-5 in the first, but defenseman Kevin Bieksa had the puck poked away by Helm and his fluttering wrist shot got past Luongo at 11:16.
Detroit didn’t do much with three power plays in the first, going scoreless and getting only one shot combined with an extra skater.
The Red Wings looked out of sync, missing playmaking center Pavel Datsyuk for a second game. Datsyuk, the team’s leading scorer, is expected to be out for two weeks after right knee surgery Tuesday.
Sedin tied the game at 1 at 13:34 of the second. He slid the puck around Howard and into the net while engaged with defenseman Ian White.
The Red Wings were fortunate the game was tied after Quincey was called for two penalties in the first half of the second period and Drew Miller put Vancouver on another power play, holding the Canucks scoreless each time they had an extra skater in the period.
Detroit outshot the Canucks 15-8 in the second period, but had nothing to show for it.
The Red Wings created more chances in the third period, especially when Abdelkader swiped at a puck in the crease that Luongo didn’t cover.
Ducks 3, Hurricanes 2
RALEIGH, N.C. — Saku Koivu scored the only goal in the shootout to lift Anaheim over Carolina.
Corey Perry, who reached 30 goals for the third time in his career, and Luca Sbisa scored in regulation for Anaheim. Jerome Samson and Jamie McBain had goals for Carolina.
Jonas Hiller had 30 saves for the Ducks, who went 5-1-2 on their eight-game, 15-day road trip. Anaheim improved to 2-22-2 when trailing after two periods.
Carolina’s Justin Peters, starting his second straight and playing in his fourth consecutive game because Cam Ward is injured, made 35 saves.
The Hurricanes’ Jiri Tlusty assisted on Samson’s goal to extend his point streak to nine games, two short of the longest run since the club moved to North Carolina from Hartford in 1997.
Wild 3, Panthers 2
SUNRISE, Fla. — Matt Cullen and Erik Christensen scored in the shootout in Minnesota’s victory against Florida.
Cullen and Kyle Brodziak scored in regulation, Dany Heatley had two assists, and Niklas Backstrom stopped 41 shots for the Wild.
Christensen scored the first goal in the shootout, followed by Cullen. Backstrom stopped Kris Versteeg and Sean Bergenheim to seal the win. Cullen is 7-for-13 in shootout attempts this season.
The Wild won for just the second time in nine games.
Bergenheim and Mikael Samuelsson scored for the Panthers, who got 26 saves from Jose Theodore. Florida has lost four straight.
Sharks 2, Maple Leafs 1
TORONTO — Patrick Marleau scored two goals, and San Jose sent stumbling Toronto to its seventh loss in eight games.
James Reimer started in goal against the Sharks and made 24 saves, but his record dropped to 11-9-4. Marleau was the only player to beat him with a pair of second-period goals that lifted the Sharks (32-20-7) to their first win in five games. Antti Niemi made 29 saves.
Jake Gardiner scored for the Maple Leafs (29-25-7), who are 1-6-1 since Feb. 7.
Blues 3, Predators 2
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Shootout goals by T.J. Oshie and Andy McDonald pushed St. Louis past Nashville.
Chris Stewart and Vladimir Sobotka scored for St. Louis in regulation. Roman Josi and Colin Wilson had goals for Nashville.
Jaroslav Halak made 25 saves for the Blues, then was perfect in the shootout, stopping Wilson and Martin Erat.
Pekka Rinne stopped 22 shots for the Predators.
Stewart got the only goal of the opening period, then Josi and Wilson gave Nashville a 2-1 lead. Just 34 seconds after Wilson’s goal, Sobotka tied it.
Stars 3, Blackhawks 1
CHICAGO — Michael Ryder scored on a deflection with 5:02 left in regulation as the Dallas Stars rallied with three goals late in the game to defeat Chicago, ending the Blackhawks’ four-game winning streak.
Tied at 1, Ryder got behind Chicago’s defense and redirected Mike Ribeiro’s shot between Corey Crawford’s left pad and the near goal post.
Dallas’ Loui Eriksson was credited with a goal 74 seconds later that made it 3-1. He scored after Ryder’s shot deflected off Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook’s skate.
Dallas’s Steve Ott scored on a deflection midway through the third to tie it at 1.
Stars backup Richard Bachman made 26 stops in his first start since Feb. 2, a stretch of 11 games.
Marian Hossa scored Chicago’s lone goal and Corey Crawford finished with 22 saves.
