Cam Talbot picked up the save in a good relief appearance for the second time in a week for the Detroit Red Wings.
John Gibson left Sunday’s game after the second period with an injury, but the Red Wings held on for a 3-0 victory over the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center.
Moritz Seider scored a goal and added two assists. James van Riemsdyk tallied a goal and added an assist. Dominik Shine scored his first career NHL goal. Patrick Kane provided a pair of assists.
The Red Wings (36-21-7, 79 points) stopped a two-game skid (0-1-1). They are the only team not to have lost back-to-back regulation games since the start of December (they dropped three in a row from Nov. 24-28).
The Devils (32-30-2) had their four-game winning streak snapped.
Gibson (21 saves in 40 minutes) and Talbot (10 saves in 20 minutes) combined for the shutout, Detroit’s fifth – all have come on the road, where the Red Wings are 18-10-4.
Gibson was injured late in the second period when Devils forward Timo Meier pushed Lucas Raymond into the goalie, which triggered a melee.
Gibson also left last Monday’s game in Nashville after the first period due to an injury. He missed the following game but has played the past two.
This is the first time Detroit goalies have combined to post a shutout since March 29, 2019, when Jonathan Bernier and Jimmy Howard pulled off the feat in a 4-0 victory over the Devils.
Shine scored an important goal to make it 3-0 with 9:36 remaining in the third period. Van Riemsdyk made a terrific backhand pass through the season to set him up. Shine, 32, recalled last week from the Grand Rapids Griffins, was playing his 14th NHL game, all in the past two seasons.
It was the first game this season Detroit’s Dylan Larkin has missed, after he suffered an apparent leg injury on Friday (he’s listed as day-to-day).
Defenseman Justin Faulk, acquired from St. Louis Friday at the trade deadline, make his Red Wings debut. He partnered with Ben Chiarot on the second pairing and logged 19:28 (three shots, four blocked shots, four hits).
This was the start of a four-game trip that continues Tuesday at Florida (7 p.m., FanDuel Sports Network).
The Red Wings scored in each of the first two periods.
Seider notched his eighth of the season at 3:20 of the first. He simply flung a fadeaway shot from the point that beat Markstrom while Andrew Copp provided a net-front screen.
Seider shot from the same spot when van Riemsdyk, at the net front, tipped it in at 6:37 of the second on the power play to make it 2-0.
