Pavel Datsyuk against Anaheim Ducks 6/5/2013 - Stanley Cup 2013 Round 1 Game 4 Highlights

  / 477578652303300   Name: Pavel Datsyuk Number: 13 Position: Center Goals: 1 Assists: 0 Points: 1 +/-: 1 PIM: 0 Shots: 3 Hits: 4 Blocked Shots: 1 Giveaways: 0 Takeaways: 2 Faceoffs: 40% Time On The Ice: 25:07 DETROIT -- It became a night of redemption for a couple of Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena, and this Western Conference Quarterfinal Series is now even because of it. Damien Brunner scored 15:10 into overtime to give the Red Wings a 3-2 victory Monday night against the Anaheim Ducks. He atoned for a bad gaffe in Game 3 -- a turnover in his own zone that led a critical goal in Anaheim's 4-0 victory -- by putting home the rebound of a Gustav Nyquist shot to tie the series at two games apiece. Game 5 is Wednesday back in Anaheim. The Red Wings had dominated possession in the third period and much of the extra session before rookie center Joakim Andersson led Nyquist a little too far with a pass that split the Anaheim defensemen. As Nyquist raced after the bouncing puck, Anaheim goalie Jonas Hiller hesitated and then tried to poke it away at the last second. Hiller stopped Nyquist from putting the puck in the net, but defenseman Bryan Allen slid into the goalie, and Brunner was there to put in the rebound. Brunner, a 27-year-old from Switzerland in his first year in the NHL after the Red Wings signed him as a free agent in the summer, actually played the least of any of Detroit's 18 skaters at 11:16, and less than all of the Ducks save for one. Maybe he was fresh. Maybe he is just an opportunistic guy. But as coach Mike Babcock has said a couple of times during this series, Brunner produces. Brunner wasn't the only Red Wings player with minimal Stanley Cup Playoffs experience who made amends on this night. Detroit's Brendan Smith had a mix-up with defense partner Kyle Quincey in the first period and that led to the opening goal of the game by Anaheim's Matt Beleskey. Smith got that one back at 1:18 of the third period. He scored his first career Stanley Cup Playoffs goal to even the score at 1-1. His shot from the top of the offensive zone hit multiple players en route to the net, the last being Anaheim defenseman Francois Beauchemin, who was trying to keep Andersson away from his goaltender. David Steckel reclaimed the lead for Anaheim at 10:40 of the third. After a Kyle Palmieri shot, Detroit defenseman Brian Lashoff fell into goaltender Jimmy Howard, and Steckel had plenty of net to work with on the rebound. Beleskey's goal was the second of the series. The Ducks have also received two goals from Nick Bonino and one each from Steckel, Emerson Etem and Kyle Palmieri -- that's seven of the team's 13 in this postseason from "depth" forwards. Steckel's goal came after the fourth line had been broken up and put back together again. Boudreau was constantly shuffling his forward lines from near the end of the second period on as Detroit claimed more and more of the possession as the game wore on. Pavel Datsyuk scored his first goal of the series at 13:27 of the third to tie the game again. Datsyuk carried the puck into the offensive zone on the left wing and snapped a shot under the crossbar. Before that goal, the Red Wings had only one point at even strength (and three total) from Datsyuk and captain Henrik Zetterberg. It was the second time in the contest the Red Wings erased a lead and set up Brunner to be the hero in overtime -- just like his linemate Nyquist was in Game 2. Hiller only needed to make 23 saves for a shutout in Game 3, but he had more work in Game 4 and ended up with twice as many. The Swiss netminder made 27 saves in first 40 minutes alone, though there still weren't a lot of top-level chances for him to thwart. The Wings had more sustained pressure in the third and overtime, and they made it count with the three goals. Anaheim took a 2-1 lead in this series based largely on special-teams play. The Ducks scored twice on the power play in a 3-1 victory in Game 1, and had two extra-man markers and a shorthanded tally in a 4-0 triumph in Game 3. Detroit had the better of the special teams in a 5-4 overtime win in Game 2, scoring its final three goals with the man advantage. While the first three games of the series looked more like regular-season contests because of all the power plays on both sides, Game 4 was an even-strength affair. There were only four penalties assessed in this contest, and neither team was able to capitalize. Even though the Red Wings held a sizable shot advantage, Babcock pointed out his team yielded "glorious" scoring chances to Anaheim's top players, and Boudreau felt his club missed a opening to take control of the series.