Gibbons' OT goal sends Devils past Red Wings
DETROIT -- Brian Gibbons scored 2:32 into overtime to give the New Jersey Devils a 4-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday night at Little Caesars Arena.
Left winger Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist and centers Brian Boyle and Nico Hischier also scored for New Jersey.
Goalie Keith Kinkaid made 31 saves for the Devils.
Left winger David Booth, a Detroit native, scored his first two goals for the Red Wings and right winger Anthony Mantha also scored for Detroit.
Goaltender Petr Mrazek stopped 21 shots for the Red Wings before he was replaced by Jimmy Howard in the third period. Howard had seven saves after Mrazek suffered a possible concussion.
Gibbons scored from in front after a turnover deep in the Detroit zone. It was Gibbons 11th goal of the season.
Mantha and Booth, with his second goal of the game, scored 1:26 apart in the third period to tie it at 3.
Mantha got his 11th goal of the season, from the high slot, 6:50 into the third and Booth scored from just below the hash marks at 8:16.
Booth gave the Red Wings a 1-0 lead just 34 seconds into the game when he tipped in a shot by defenseman Xavier Ouellet. Center Luke Glendening appeared to initially tip it before Booth tipped the puck for his first goal of the season and first with the Red Wings.
Boyle's tip-in of a shot by defenseman Steven Santini at 9:12 of the first period tied the score 1-1. It was Boyle's third goal and second in two games.
Hall's power-play goal with 6:39 left in the opening period gave the Devils a 2-1 lead. After skating into the zone, he beat Mrazek from the slot with a wrist shot.
It was Hall's eighth goal and his second in two games, in which he has five points.
Hischier made it 3-1 at 6:12 of the third period when he scored from in front after taking a pass from Hall.
NOTES: Both teams played Friday night. New Jersey defeated Vancouver 3-2 in a home game at the Prudential Center and Detroit lost 2-1 in overtime to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. ... Detroit D Trevor Daley missed the game with a stinger suffered Friday night against the Rangers. He is day to day, according to general manager Ken Holland. ... Scratched for New Jersey were D Dalton Prout and RW Jimmy Hayes. ... Red Wings RW Martin Frk missed his sixth game with a groin injury. ... Devils LW Taylor Hall has two goals and five points in his last two games and two goals and seven points in his past five games.