Red Wings Impress, Close In on Record

After a dominating performance against the league’s best penalty kill, the Detroit Red Wings look primed and ready for a deep postseason run.

The Red Wings’ top-ranked power play vastly outplayed Minnesota’s No. 1 penalty-killing unit in a 3-2 victory Sunday at St. Paul, Minn.

“We’ve got a good power play and we want to have it good going into the playoffs,” Detroit Coach Mike Babcock said. “We don’t want teams to screw around with us. We feel we can bury you on the power play if you try to screw around against us.”

The Red Wings scored two power play goals in the second period, both assisted by Steve Yzerman, to get their franchise-record 27th road win of the season, one shy of the NHL record for road victories in a season. New Jersey set the record in 1998-99.

Brendan Shanahan, Henrik Zetterberg and Robert Lang scored for Detroit.

New Jersey 3, Pittsburgh 2 -- Brian Gionta scored his 42nd goal with 2:38 left in overtime to lift the Devils at Pittsburgh. Patrik Elias had tied it for New Jersey seconds before regulation ended.

Philadelphia 4, N.Y. Islanders 1 -- Robert Esche stopped 31 shots and four Flyers scored to help visiting Philadelphia move within two points of the first-place New York Rangers in the Atlantic Division.