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Alex DeBrincat scored two goals, including the game-winner in overtime, as the Detroit Red Wings extended their winning streak to six games with a 3-2 victory against the host Vancouver Canucks on Sunday night.
Ben Chiarot also scored for Detroit, which climbed into a wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference thanks to the win. Goaltender Alex Lyon stopped 25 shots.
Filip Chytil and Pius Suter scored for Vancouver, which lost its second straight game. Kevin Lankinen made 15 saves.
DeBrincat now has 23 goals on the season, tying him with Dylan Larkin for the team lead. The decisive goal came with 42 seconds left in the extra session, as DeBrincat led an odd-man rush from one end of the ice to the other and made good on a give-and-go with Lucas Raymond in the Vancouver zone.
Suter gave the hosts the lead less than five minutes into the contest with his 14th goal of the season. The former Red Wing raised his stick to deflect a shot from Elias Pettersson and get it past a screened Lyon.
DeBrincat leveled the game at 1 less than two minutes later, and Chiarot put Detroit up for the first time at 5:54 of the second.
Chiarot's wrister from the blue line got past Lankinen thanks to screens from Michael Rasmussen and Elmer Soderblom. Soderblom earned an assist on the play to extend his point streak to four games.
Chytil, acquired from the New York Rangers on Friday, tied the game at 2-all at 10:46 of the third. He first corralled a loose puck in the faceoff circle to Lyon's left. Working through a Chiarot check, he skated to his right and finally found daylight past the netminder to guarantee Vancouver a point.
Just before the game started, the Canucks pulled defenseman Quinn Hughes, the team's captain and leader in points (14 goals, 45 assists), from the lineup due to an undisclosed injury.
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The veteran didn't give up many sacks, but the inconsistency on an island was there for all to see. Wylie kept his spot in 2024, but the same complications emerged. Adam Peters had seen enough, spending the No. 29 overall selection in the draft on Josh Conerly Jr. to form a bookend tackle tandem with Laremy Tunsil. This relegated Wylie to a backup role, but it wasn't long before he was thrust into the spotlight again. He came in at the right guard spot when Nick Allegretti struggled, adding a much-needed sense of stability to the place at a critical time. But when Sam Cosmi got the all-clear to return, he went back to the fringes. Wylie probably wants the chance to start at this stage of his career. And the Commanders don't want to be shelling out big money for veteran backups when there are so many other needs elsewhere.
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