DETROIT — With his team down by a goal after two periods, Philadelphia Flyers coach Craig Berube
had a message for his team.“‘Stay out of the penalty box’,” Berube said he told his players between the
second and third periods.Apparently, they listened.Sean Couturier had two goal and two assists and the
Philadelphia Flyers scored four goals in third period to rally for a 6-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings on
Wednesday night.“I liked our game (after two periods), we were playing a good game,” Berube said. “You can’t
go in the box three or four times period and give them 5-on-3s.”The Flyers took five penalties and
surrendered a 5-on-3 power-play goal in the second.Couturier got the winner at 8:28 of the third period by
tipping in a shot.“It’s (his big night) good for the confidence. But this was a team game and team success,”
Couturier said. “All four lines were rolling. We just wanted to get some chances and capitalize on some
chances.”Couturier’s line had a big night as his linemates, Scott Hartnell and Matt Read, each had a goal
and two assists.“They just keep plugging along and doing the right things,” Berube said about the group.
“They keep back-checking and that puts them in the right position for offense.”Steve Downie and Claude
Giroux had a goal and an assist each for Philadelphia. Steve Mason stopped 32 shots.Philadelphia finished 3
for 3 on the power play.Tomas Tatar scored twice and center Johan Franzen also scored for Detroit. Jimmy
Howard made 28 saves.“In the end I thought we had things going pretty good for ourselves through two. The
third period wasn’t good enough, they were better than us,” Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said. “They were
better than us because they lit us up on the power play.”Giroux tied it at 3, with a power-play goal 5:15
into the third period. He got his fifth goal, on a shot from the top of the left circle.Hartnell made it 5-3
with a power-play goal 9:58 into the third for his sixth goal. Couturier added an empty-net goal in the last
minute.Read scored from the front of the net with 3:22 remaining in the second to pull the Flyers within
3-2. It was his ninth goal.Detroit scored twice in less than two minutes in the middle of the second period
to go up 3-1.Franzen beat Mason with a slap shot from the top of the left circle off the rush to break a tie
at 8:24. It was Franzen’s eighth goal.Tatar got his second goal of the game on a 5-on-3 power play by
putting in a loose puck from a goal-mouth scramble with 9:47 left in the middle period. It was Tatar’s fifth
goal.The Red Wings’ Justin Abdelkader hit the post on a partial breakaway with 1:32 left in the
first.Tatar’s first goal of the game opened the scoring with 9:43 left in the opening period on a one-time
shot from the bottom of the left circle.Downie’s power-play goal tied it with 6:12 remaining in the first
period. He beat Howard with a wrist shot from the inside edge of the right circle. It was Downie’s second
goal.NOTE: The Red Wings were without both of their star centers, Pavel Datsyuk and captain Henrik
Zetterberg. Datsyuk missed his fifth game with a concussion and Zetterberg sat out his first game because of
a herniated disc in his back. Zetterberg is expected to miss at least two weeks. … Flyers C Vincent
Lecavalier missed his second game with back spasms. … Detroit RW Todd Bertuzzi missed his sixth game with
an upper-body injury. … Philadelphia RW Adam Hall is from Kalamazoo and played at Michigan State. .. Red
Wings D Danny Dekeyser, who has missed seven games and is on the long-term IR with a separated left
shoulder, began skating on Wednesday morning. … Detroit LW Justin Abdelkader went to the locker room late
in the second period after being shoved into the boards from behind by Flyers defenseman Luke Schenn, who
got a charging penalty. Abdelkader returned in the third.