Red Wings top Blue Jackets 4-2 to sweep home and home to install

Red Wings top Blue Jackets 4-2 to sweep home and home to install

Detroit Red Wings Columbus Blue Jackets have shown they work.

Niklas Kronwall, Darren Helm, Valtteri Filppula and Danny Cleary Detroit Red Wings 4-2 Sunday to win against the Columbus Blue Jackets scored the lead.

Johan Franzen and Pavel Datsyuk added two assists each and Jimmy Howard 27 Detroit, who swept home and home series next weekend in Columbus a 2-1 win Friday night made the saves.

Wings and Blue Jackets entered the weekend tied at the top of the Western Conference. Wings lead the conference with 32 points, Blue Jackets tied for second with Chicago Blackhawks 28 each.

We had two tough games to win a round and then come back here even though we scored late, blank monitor, are two tough games, the Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom said. I think they have improved as a team. They play us hard.

Derick binding and R. J. Umberger scored for Columbus and Steve Mason stopped 38 shots.

Umberger said he knows how to win, and that we are learning something.

Detroit in the middle of the second period with two goals in 14 seconds to lead 2-1.

Kronwall period when the crease this season for his fifth goal to put his own rebound at 9:48 left tied it with 1. Wheel and then the bottom of the right circle beat Mason, after digging in the corner with 9:34 remaining in his second season, cooking.

I think (Helm) is a real good job. That it "D" had been put behind them and it is, and "D" made him, and he buried him, Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. This game was a big swing right there. I do not know how that was fast, but a very short time, two goals within the time period.

This section effectively destroyed the first and third period effort by Columbus.

If we slip, we can keep up with these people. If we stop and look, as we did the second period, we are in trouble, Blue Jackets defenseman Mike Commodore said. Litmus test of how we're doing. You lose two games, did not succeed. But we're there.

Filppula first minute of the third period when his sixth goal in two other games in the 3-1 turned into a recovery.

Filppula said they were both very close games, and they can go either way. We are clearly pleased with the victory.

Loss of the wing two minutes two men killed during the middle part of the third period.

It was huge for us. If they scored a goal there, they're still on the power play, Lidstrom said. We are only three people trying to keep the puck low and low to bring them when they had the puck on the blue line. We have some good shots blocked, and Howie (Howard), large leaf guard again when we really need.

Vermette left after Mason was pulled in the next 6 with its sixth session runs 1:31 - 4 in one jacket and blue, but Cleary 58 for the Detroit to an empty net with seconds left in scored. It was Cleary 10 destinations.

Binding of 43 left in the first period when he tipped Anton Stralman air and the right point shot past Howard opened the scoring with the SEC. 4 was the sixth goal of bondage - it comes with four teams playing.