DETROIT ENDS LONG TAMPA LOSING SKID

Red Wings net first road victory over Lightning in more than a decade

TAMPA, FLA. » Thomas Greiss made 27 stops to lead the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-1 victory over Tampa Bay on Sunday for their first road win against the Lightning in the regular season in more than 10 years.

Marc Staal, Valtteri Filppula, Michael Rasmussen, Darren Helm and Dylan Larkin all scored for the Red Wings, who snapped a three-game winless streak. Luke Glendening and Anthony Mantha each finished with two assists for Detroit, which had lost 17 regular-season consecutive games in Tampa until Sunday going back to Feb. 17, 2011.

“The past record ... if you guys didn’t tell us we would have no idea to be dead honest with you,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “But certainly we haven’t beat these guys much. Having success against them certainly feels good especially the fact they are as good of a team as they are and the defending Stanley Cup champions.’’

Victor Hedman scored his seventh goal for the Lightning, who fell to 2-4 in their past six games.

“We’re learning the lesson of how important every detail is in our game and how important it is to be in that structure for 60 minutes,” Tampa Bay defenseman Ryan McDonagh said.

“It felt like we had good control of the game, we hadn’t scored, but it was 1-0 halfway through the second and we just let a few minutes in the game snowball into a big hole.’’

Christopher Gibson stopped 13 shots in the loss, his undoing coming when he allowed three goals in a span of 2:53 in the second period.

Filppula opened that spurt with a goal at 16:05, Rasmussen scored 29 seconds later off a miss that caromed off the boards and Staal closed the

MIKE CARLSON PHOTOS — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit Red Wings’ Michael Rasmussen, left, scores past Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Christopher Gibson during Sunday’s 5-1victory in Tampa, Fla. It was the Red Wings first road win against the Lightning since Feb. 17, 2011, a losing streak of 17games overall.