The St. Louis Blues overcame a deficit and a heavy shot disadvantage to defeat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4 on Saturday afternoon at Little Caesars Arena, improving to 7-6-1 on the season.
Dalibor Dvorsky opened the scoring at 2:29 of the first period, assisted by Dylan Holloway and Justin Barron. Detroit’s J.T. Compher answered at 8:13 (Michael Rasmussen) to knot the game at 1-1 after 20 minutes.
Keegan Kolesar (Justin Faulk, Carter Mazur) put the Red Wings ahead 2-1 just 41 seconds into the second. Lucas Raymond added an unassisted goal at 13:14 to make it 3-1. Jimmy Snuggerud cut the deficit to 3-2 late in the period at 19:32, with helpers from Robert Thomas and Philip Broberg, sending the teams to the second intermission with Detroit holding a one-goal edge.
Detroit extended the lead to 4-2 early in the third when Emmitt Finnie scored on the power play at 3:29, assisted by Raymond and Moritz Seider. The Blues responded quickly: Pavel Buchnevich (Jake Neighbours) made it 4-3 at 8:37, and Justin Barron (Snuggerud) tied the game at 12:57. Aleksanteri Kaskimaki then scored the game-winner at 13:15, assisted by Pius Suter and Alexey Toropchenko, to give St. Louis a 5-4 advantage it would not relinquish.
St. Louis converted efficiently, scoring five times on just 15 shots while holding Detroit to four goals on 28 attempts. Joel Hofer earned the win in net for the Blues; John Gibson took the loss for Detroit.
The victory marked a strong road response for St. Louis after recent home results and gives the Blues a series edge in the teams’ first meeting of the season. Detroit fell to 6-5-3.
