DETROIT — Gustav Nyquist made the most of his return from the minors.Niklas Kronwall was
credited with the tie-breaking goal in the third period, Nyquist had 2 goals and the Detroit Red Wings
broke a seven-game game losing streak with a 4-3 win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday
night.Nyquist was recalled from the Grand Rapids Griffins of the American Hockey League earlier in the
day. He wasn’t there because he wasn’t good enough to make the team out of training camp, but due to
salary cap reasons. He was one of Detroit’s best forwards in training camp and during the exhibition
season after playing a key role for the Red Wings on the third line during last season’s playoffs.Only a
shoulder separation to defenseman Danny Dekeyser in Tuesday night’s 2-0 loss to Nashville, which put him
on the long-term injured list, gave Detroit the cap space to bring Nyquist back.“We’ll see, we’ll see
what happens here,” Nyquist said after the game. “Obviously this is where I want to play and I want to
be a part of this team and hopefully we’ll be able to work that out.”He scored his first goal just 17
seconds into the game by putting in a loose puck from the bottom of the right circle.“It was a lucky
bounce there, but it for sure was nice to get a quick one so that felt great,” Nyquist said.Henrik
Zetterberg assisted on both Nyquist’s tallies and Darren Helm added a goal for Detroit. Jonas Gustavsson
made 24 saves.“We needed to win and it was a good win for us. I thought our team played well. We had
lots of opportunities,” Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “We made it closer than we needed to, for
sure. I thought we really carried territorial play. Our specialty teams were outstanding.”Andrej Sekera
scored twice and Brett Bellemore got his first NHL goal for Carolina. Justin Peters stopped 43
shots.“They’re a good hockey team and they played well. . They owned the puck,” Sekera said.Kronwall was
credited with the 5-on-3 power-play goal that broke a 2-2 tie 8:29 into the third period when
Hurricanes’ captain Eric Staal accidentally kicked the puck into his own net.Nyquist scored on a
breakaway with 4:02 left.Sekera got his second goal with a short-handed effort in the last
minute.Detroit killed off a 1:36 two-man disadvantage late in the second period and early in the
third.“We were right there in the third period. We had a 5-on-3 that we had the chance to go up,” Sekera
said. “We didn’t score and they scored on theirs.”Sekera tied the game at 2 with 7:09 left in the middle
period with his first goal. He made a move past the Red Wings’ Todd Bertuzzi and then beat Gustavsson
with a wrist shot from the slot off the rush. It was Sekera’s third goal.Bellemore put Carolina on the
board 5:49 into the middle period, making it 2-1 by completing a give-and-go with right wing Radek
Dvorak and whipping a one-timer from the bottom of the right circle past Gustavsson.Helm gave Detroit a
2-0 lead 2:37 into the second period. He also beat Peters with a shot from the bottom of the right
circle for his third goal.NOTES: Hurricanes LW Jeff Skinner returned after missing 11 games with an
upper-body injury. . Carolina RW Alexander Semin missed his second game with a concussion. . The Red
Wings played their first complete game without rookie D Danny DeKeyser, who will miss three-to-six weeks
with a separated left shoulder. He was put on long-term IR. . Hurricanes D Tim Gleason, LW Nathan Gerbe
and LW Drayson Bowman are all from Michigan. . Detroit RW Daniel Alfredsson (groin) missed his fourth
game and Red Wings’ C Stephen Weiss (groin) missed his sixth. . Carolina D Jay Harrison missed his
second game with an illness. . Brendan Shanahan, the NHL’s vice president of hockey and business
development and director of player safety was honored before the game for his recent Hall of Fame
induction. He played for Detroit in 1996-97 and 2005-06. . Detroit D Brian Lashoff left the game in the
second period due to the flu.