Raymond’s shootout goal lifts Red Wings over Blues, 3-2

>> Lucas Raymond’s goal in the fourth round of a shootout gave the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday night.

Raymond’s goal was the only one from either team in the tiebreaker. He is 3 for 8 in career shootout attempts.

Alex Chiasson and Filip Zadina scored in regulation for the Red Wings, who stopped a three-game losing streak. Magnus Hellberg made 20 saves and denied all four attempts in the shootout.

“Obviously, I know I’m a big boy,” the 6-foot-6 Hellberg said. “I try to have good patience and use my size, don’t come out too far, but still have good gap when they come. I know that if I just keep my position, they can’t really go around me because I have long legs and stuff like that. Today it worked and obviously Raymond a great goal there to finish the job.”

Robert Bortuzzo and Marco Scandella scored for the Blues, who won their previous three home games against Detroit. Joel Hofer made 28 saves, taking his first loss in his third game since being recalled from Springfield of the AHL last Thursday.

St. Louis got first-period goals from two unlikely sources.

Bortuzzo gave them the lead at 2:21 of the first period with his second goal of the season and first since New Year’s Eve. Scandella scored midway through the first — his first goal since April 24, 2022.

“Just finding the timing now,” said Scandella, who missed the first 56 games this season while recovering from hip surgery. “This is Game 14 for me. I’m starting to get into my groove, starting to feel good. It’s not easy jumping in in the middle of the season. Everyone’s going, systems are in place. Just building every day.”

Detroit had an answer for each St. Louis goal.

Chiasson got the Red Wings on the board with a power-play goal at the 7:49 mark, burying a perfect feed from David Perron. Zadina’s goal late in the first evened it at 2.

“It’s been a tough stretch of late,” Red Wings coach Derek Lalonde said. “We’ve talked about having something to play for a little bit, where our morale was, and I give the guys a ton of credit. They played with some urgency tonight.”

Raymond was inches away from giving the Red Wings the lead in the final seconds of the second period as his shot trickled between Hofer’s legs, but Hofer was able to recover and pounce on the puck before it could be tapped over the goal line.