Red Wings score 4 in 3rd, rally past Stars

DETROIT -- Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider each had three third-period points, and the Detroit Red Wings rallied for a 6-4 win against the Dallas Stars at Little Caesars Arena on Monday.

Raymond and Seider each had a goal and two assists in the third, when the Red Wings outscored Dallas 4-1. Cam Talbot made 24 saves for Detroit (38-35-7), which has won four of its past six.

“In the second period, we were pretty sloppy. There were 27 face-offs, and I think we lost 20 of them, and that’s where their scoring chances were coming from,” Red Wings assistant coach Trent Yawney said. “That’s something as coaches we needed to change.

“I was proud of the way the guys responded.”

The Stars (50-25-6) have lost six straight (0-4-2) but are locked into second place in the Central Division and will play the third-place Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference First Round. Jake Oettinger made 31 saves.

“That was the same story we’ve seen for the last little while,” Stars coach Pete DeBoer said. “A slow start, then maybe the best period we’ve played in the last two or three weeks in the second, and then they got a couple in the third to put the game away.”

Forward Mason Marchment (illness) missed the game for Dallas and defensemen Esa Lindell and Thomas Harley did not play because of rest.

“At this time of year, do you dress your guys and try to win games, or do you rest guys and prepare for [Game 1]?” DeBoer said. “Obviously, we’ve chosen the latter.”

Albert Johansson gave Detroit a 1-0 lead at 4:27 of the first period, taking a pass from Dylan Larkin and beating Oettinger on the glove side from the high slot.

Jamie Benn appeared to make it 1-1 at 7:15, deking Talbot and slipping the puck across the line for what would have been his 400th NHL goal. However, the goal was changed to Lian Bichsel, who touched it before it crossed the line.

“I don’t care about the goal, we lost another game,” Bichsel said. “We have to be ready for Colorado on Saturday, because that’s going to be at a whole different level.”

The Red Wings took a 2-1 lead at 13:52 when Patrick Kane, who was playing in his 1,300th NHL game, set up Alex DeBrincat for his 37th goal.

Evgenii Dadonov made it 2-2 at 9:00 of the second period, tipping Roope Hintz’s shot past Talbot for his 20th goal.

Colin Blackwell scored a short-handed goal at 11:25 to put Dallas ahead 3-2.

Jonatan Berggren tied the game at 3-3 at 1:15 of the third period, putting Raymond’s cross-ice pass over Oettinger’s shoulder, and Seider gave the Red Wings a 4-3 lead with a power-play goal at 4:19.

Berggren had a goal and an assist in his debut on Detroit’s first line with Larkin and Raymond.

“[Berggren] played a really nice game,” Raymond said of Berggren. “With his vision and his skating, he brings an extra edge to the game. It was fun to see him out there.”

Raymond picked up his third point of the period at 9:49, intercepting a Dallas pass in the neutral zone and beating Oettinger to make it 5-3.

Wyatt Johnston cut the lead to 5-4 at 12:56, but Vladimir Tarasenko scored an empty-net goal at 18:04 for the 6-4 final.

“Obviously, this season isn’t ending the way we hoped,” Raymond said. “But we wanted to get a win for the fans in our last [home] game. That meant the world to us.”

NOTES: Raymond has 51 assists, making him the first Red Wings player to reach 50 since Henrik Zetterberg also had 51 in 2016-17. … Kane’s assist was his 850th in the NHL.