The Detroit Red Wings came out with energy and emotion but their penalty kill continues to be a drain. An two-goal lead had dissolved into a deficit by the time the third period began in Friday's matinee at Little Caesars Arena. By then, the New Jersey ...

It was a fun atmosphere on a holiday weekday afternoon and an entertaining game, but the Red Wings gladly would have exchanged the result.

It wasn’t enough for the New Jersey Devils to beat the Detroit Red Wings. Then they had to pour salt in the wounds. Or, to be more precise, pour out a gravy boat full of losses.

The Wings are on a nice little roll headed into their next contest, a Friday matinee against the New Jersey Devils at Little Caesars Arena. Winners of three of their last four games, the Wings also have points in four of their last five games, improving to 10-10-2 and seemingly coming to an understanding of how they have to play to succeed.

Devils Stefan Noesen and his teammates jabbed and poked their sticks at the loose puck, trying desperately to give New Jersey its first lead of the game against the Detroit Red Wings on Friday. Noesen and the Devils recorded five shots in six seconds in the second period before Noesen finally got the puck past goaltender Cam Talbot.

Dougie Hamilton, Timo Meier and Jack Hughes scored on power plays as the New Jersey Devils took advantage of Detroit’s NHL-worst penalty kill in a 5-4 victory over the Red Wings on Friday.

Stefan Noesen scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period and the visiting New Jersey Devils held on for a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday afternoon.