DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings used a balanced offense to take care of the Boston Bruins.Niklas
Kronwall, Henrik Zetterberg, Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar each had a goal and an assist in the Red Wings’
6-1 win over the Bruins on Wednesday night.“We work pretty hard most nights. Today we were rewarded. We had
puck luck and got some energy and got going. I think that was the biggest thing,” Detroit coach Mike Babcock
said.“We’ve played lots of good games this year; we haven’t won lots of games. That’s the fact, because we
never score. The puck’s been going in. I thought we built off what we’ve been building and it was a positive
for the guys.”The six goals are the most the team has scored in a game this season.Justin Abdelkader and
Drew Miller and also scored for Detroit. Johan Franzen had three assists, Joakim Andersson two assists and
Jonas Gustavsson made 16 saves.“We really went after it tonight. It felt like we skated a lot, we played the
kind of game we want to play. When we do that we’re a really good team,” said Gustavsson, who ran his season
record to 6-0-1.“I don’t know if it was our team that was really good or Boston had an off night. If we play
like this we know we’re going to win a lot of games. I feel like last few weeks we’ve been going in the
right direction. Hopefully we have some more gears. I think we have, because we have a young group. Really
good team effort.”Jarome Iginla scored for Boston and Tuukka Rask stopped 22 shots.“Everything we did
tonight was just a disaster,” Bruins coach Claude Julien said.Abdelkader opened the scoring at 11:49 of the
first period when he put in a loose puck from the bottom of the left circle off the rush, 11 seconds after
Detroit killed off a high-sticking penalty to Franzen. It was Abdelkader’s third goal of the season.The Red
Wings scored three goals in less than four minutes in the second period.Tatar made it 2-0 at 6:05 of the
second period. He scored on a wraparound after carrying the puck from just outside the Red Wings’ blue line
and falling down and getting back up — while maintaining control of the puck — in the right circle. It was
Tatar’s third goal.Zetterberg made it 3-0 at 8:47 when he scored from the left circle for his 11th goal.
Kronwall scored on the power play, just 1:14 later.“It was nice. Our second periods haven’t been our best
and tonight we found a way,” Zetterberg said. “Specialty teams were good, our PK and we scored a goal on the
power play.”This is the way Rask saw it: “In the second period we didn’t create much and didn’t give them
much but they scored three goals.”Miller scored his second goal of the season at 8:38 of the third period
and Nyquist got his third goal of the season with 2:53 remaining in the game.Iginla spoiled Gustavsson
shutout attempt with 2:25 left.NOTES: Detroit C Pavel Datsyuk missed his second game after being elbowed in
the face by Ottawa D Jared Cowen on Saturday night. Datsyuk has also been ruled out of Friday’s game at the
New York Islanders. … Boston D Dennis Seidenberg didn’t play due to a lower-body injury. … Red Wings RW
Todd Bertuzzi missed his third game with an upper-body injury. … Bruins D Torey Krug is from the Detroit
suburb of Livonia and played at Michigan State. … Detroit D Jonathan Ericsson signed a six-year, $25.5
million contract extension. … Gustavsson got his second consecutive start. … Detroit D Brendan Smith
went to the dressing room after falling into the boards shoulder-first early in the third period.