DETROIT - The Detroit Red Wings' three best players combined on a spectacular late goal to bring them within one victory of another record.
Pavel Datsyuk scored with five seconds left to give the Red Wings' their 22nd consecutive home victory, 2-1 over the Nashville Predators on Friday night.
Three nights after breaking the NHL single-season record for consecutive home victories, the NHL-leading Red Wings tied Boston's multiple-season mark. The Bruins closed the 1929-30 season with 20 victories at home and won their first two the following season.
Detroit can break the record Sunday against San Jose.
After taking a pass from Henrik Zetterberg, Datsyuk beat Pekka Rinne with a high wrist shot from the slot after making a move to elude defenseman Ryan Suter. It was Datsyuk's 16th goal.
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The play developed after a faceoff in the Nashville zone with 15 seconds left.
"Z (Zetterberg) made a great pass. I jump on the side," Datsyuk said. "I prefer to shoot because I don't know how much time."
Nicklas Lidstrom controlled the puck while slowly skating backward in the neutral zone and then passed it to Zetterberg along the left boards. Zetterberg hit Datsyuk with a backhand pass as Datsyuk was crossing the Nashville blue line.
"Well, he comes with a lot of speed and the D is basically standing still, so you don't want any player coming down there, especially Pav," Zetterberg said. "And he makes a really good move and takes a really good shot, so he's a very skilled player."
Datsyuk also had an assist on Johan Franzen's goal. Joey MacDonald made 20 saves, allowing only Nick Spaling's goal. Pekka Rinne stopped 29 shots.
• Devils 3, Ducks 2, SO: In Newark, N.J., Ilva Kovalchuk and Patrik Elias scored shootout goals and New Jersey beat Anaheim.
Martin Brodeur made 36 saves and preserved the shootout win with a pad save on Ryan Getzlaf as the Devils won for the seventh time in nine games and handed the Ducks only their seventh loss (14-3-4) since the start of the year.
• Hurricanes 3, Sharks 2: In Raleigh, N.C., Jussi Jokinen scored on a deflection with 8:05 left to lift Carolina past San Jose.
Jeff Skinner and Justin Faulk scored 3:03 apart in the first period for the Hurricanes, who let a two-goal lead slip away before regrouping to beat the Pacific Division leaders.
• Canadiens 4, Sabres 3, SO: In Buffalo, N.Y., Max Pacioretty and David Desharnais scored shootout goals, and Carey Price stopped both attempts he faced in Montreal's victory over Buffalo.
Chris Campoli, Scott Gomez and Tomas Kaberle scored in regulation to help the Canadiens win their third straight road game and improve to 5-1-1 in their past seven overall.
• Capitals 2, Panthers 1: In Sunrise, Fla., Alexander Semin scored the tiebreaking goal with 6:33 to go, and Tomas Vokoun had 22 saves against his former team help Washington beat Florida.
Alex Ovechkin also scored to help the Capitals move two points behind the first-place Panthers in the Southeast Division. Tomas Fleischmann scored for Florida and Jose Theodore stopped 39 shots.
• Jets 4, Bruins 2: In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Bryan Little scored twice in the third period to help Winnipeg beat Boston.
Coming off a shootout victory in Minnesota, the Jets won games on consecutive nights for the first time this season.
• Avalanche 3, Oilers 1: In Edmonton, Alberta, Gabriel Landeskog and Mark Olver each had a goal and an assist and Colorado beat Edmonton to snap a two-game skid.
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• Sidney Crosby joined his Pittsburgh teammates on the ice for the first time in more than two months, but the 24-year-old star center says he remains bothered by concussion-like symptoms and can't play in a game yet.
• Montreal will have a Geoffrion in the lineup again. Blake Geoffrion, 23, the grandson of Canadiens legend Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, was traded to Montreal from Nashville along with a second-round draft pick for defenseman Hal Gill and a fifth-rounder.
• Five markers to guide planes in and out of the Montreal region's airports were renamed after Canadiens Hall of Famers: Maurice Richard (MORIC), Jean Beliveau (BLIVO), Doug Harvey (ARVIE), Guy Lafleur (LAFLR) and Bob Gainey (GAINY).
