Bertuzzi scores in OT in give Red Wings 3-2 comeback win over Ducks

Bertuzzi scores in OT to lift Red Wings

DETROIT — Todd Bertuzzi tied it midway through the third period and scored a power-play goal 1:07 into overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 comeback victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night.

Bertuzzi beat Jean-Sebastien Giguere from the bottom of the right circle in overtime.

Tomas Holmstrom also scored, and Jimmy Howard stopped 25 shots for Detroit.

Saku Koivu and Dan Sexton each had a goal and an assist for Anaheim, and Giguere made 28 saves. The Ducks have lost nine straight on the road.

Bertuzzi tied it at 2 at 9:36 of the third, banking a shot in off Giguere’s skate from the right corner.

Holmstrom’s power-play goal 2:17 into the third put Detroit on the board. He put in a one-time shot from the slot for his 12th goal and broke the Red Wings’ 102:24 overall scoreless drought and 142:18 dry spell at Joe Louis Arena.

Anaheim took a 2-0 lead in the second period.

Koivu opened the scoring at 8:05 of the middle period with his fifth goal when he tipped in Sexton’s pass. Sexton’s goal came with 55 seconds left in the second when his harmless looking shot from the right corner deflected in off Howard’s stick. It was Sexton’s third goal.

NOTE: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday it was unfortunate that Ducks owner Dr. Henry Samueli had to endure a suspension after he pleaded guilty last year to lying to investigators in a stock option backdating probe. A federal judge in Santa Ana, Calif., vacated Samueli’s guilty plea earlier this week after the judge found no evidence of wrongdoing. The suspension, in place since June 2008, was lifted Nov. 12, before Samueli’s plea was vacated. … Detroit F Dan Cleary missed his first game after separating a shoulder Wednesday night against St. Louis. He is expected to miss about a month. … The jumbotron scoreboard wasn’t working for the first half of the first period. … Sexton has three goals in his last two games, his second and third in the NHL.