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RALEIGH Gordie Howe Jersey , N.C. (AP) — Detroit trailed Carolina by two goals heading into the third period. Turns out, the Red Wings had the Hurricanes right where they wanted them.Anthony Mantha scored twice and Frans Nielsen netted the deciding goal in the shootout as the Red Wings erased a two-goal deficit for the third straight game and beat the Hurricanes 4-3 Saturday night.“That’s kind of our sweet spot right now,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said. “Maybe next game, we’ll start down two.”Mantha scored two quick goals at 6:04 and 9:02 of the third period to rally the Red Wings, who have won six of their last seven.The Hurricanes built a 52-32 advantage in shots, but Detroit goalie Jonathan Bernier made a career-best 49 saves and stopped all three shots he faced in the shootout.“He just played amazing tonight,” Mantha said of Bernier. “All the credit goes to him. He made huge saves in key moments.”Nielsen beat Carolina goalie Scott Darling in the shootout for the Red Wings, who have won 17 of their last 19 games that have gone to a shootout.After winning only once in their first 10 games, the Red Wings have been resilient. They beat the New York Rangers after falling behind 2-0 in third period and trailed Vancouver 2-0 on Tuesday.“We just need to figure out a way to play 60 minutes now,” Mantha said. “Make it a tad easier on ourselves.”Brock McGinn, Micheal Ferland and Dougie Hamilton scored for the Hurricanes, who have won once in their last seven games.Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen led the Hurricanes with two assists each.The Hurricanes got two acrobatic saves from Darling in overtime but failed to capitalize on a power play in the final 15 seconds of OT.It was not the way the Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour wanted to start a six-game homestand, especially after taking the 3-1 lead into the third period.“To me, it was just the third period,” Brind’Amour said. “We took our foot off the gas and it cost us.”Mantha was Carolina’s biggest problem in the third. On the tying goal Authentic Gustav Nyquist Jersey , he got out in transition but Carolina defenseman Brett Pesce blocked his first shot. The puck bounced right back to Mantha, who scored on his next shot.Mantha, who entered the game with a team-worst minus-13 rating, scored for the first time since Oct. 30.“Obviously, it wasn’t going my way these last couple of games and managed to put two in the back of the net today, so that feels good for confidence,” Mantha said.Mantha took care of the scoring and Bernier did the rest. In his sixth start of the season, the Detroit backup stopped 17 shots in the second period, when Blashill thought his team was out-played.Bernier made a difficult save on Andrei Svechnikov at 13:09 in the second period to keep Carolina’s lead at 2-1.“He allowed us to stay in the game when we weren’t good enough,” Blashill said. There were times in the second period when we were bad.”After falling behind 1-0, the Hurricanes scored three straight goals. Bernier stopped an odd-angle chance from Aho but the puck bounced free to Hamilton, who swatted in the rebound with a backhand for the 3-1 advantage at 17:01 in the second period.The Hurricanes have been slumping since a 4-0-1 start to the season. Meanwhile, the Red Wings have found a way to rally after a 1-7-2 start.“Obviously, we had a tough start to the year, but I think things are falling into place right now Womens Henrik Zetterberg Jersey ,” Mantha said.NOTES: Nielsen has made 50 percent (49 of 98) of his career shootout attempts. He holds the NHL shootout record for goals and shootout-deciding goals (23). … Brock McGinn, Jaccob Slavin and Aho failed to score in the shootout for Carolina. Detroit’s Dylan Larkin was also stopped. … Andreas Athanasiou’s first-period goal was his sixth in eight games for Detroit.UP NEXTRed Wings: Return home to face the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday.Hurricanes: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) With a last name such as his, Brady Tkachuk’s life has unsurprisingly revolved around hockey.Whether it was breaking basement windows or the garage door playing with his father Keith and older brother Matthew, or heading to the rink to attend Blues practices, the 18-year-old has plenty of childhood memories while growing up in St. Louis.”We’d go on the ice before they practiced and there were some guys who would come out like David Perron, David Backes, T.J. Oshie,” Tkachuk said at the NHL pre-draft combine on Saturday, referring to his father’s former teammates. ”And those guys would spend their time, while Matthew and I were skating around, passing and shooting and joking around with us. Those were some of my big memories.”Keith Tkachuk is considered one of the game’s top Americans during a 19-year NHL career that ended in 2010. Matthew, 20, is already in the NHL after completing his second season with the Calgary Flames.At the rate Brady Tkachuk is developing, there’s a very good chance he’ll enjoy more memorable moments in the near future.Listed at 6-foot-3 and 196 pounds http://www.redwingsshoponline.com/authentic-jimmy-howard-jersey , and still growing, Tkachuk is ranked second among North American draft-eligible prospects by the NHL’s Central Scouting Bureau. That puts the forward in the mix to be among the top five players – and first American – selected once the draft opens at Dallas on June 22.Much like his father, Tkachuk has a combination of hard-hitting and play-making components to his game. He had eight goals and 31 points, plus 61 penalty minutes in 40 games in his freshman season at Boston University.He also has leadership potential after serving as captain of the bronze-medal-winning U.S. team at the World Junior hockey championships last winter.”He’s a complete package that can be impactful in every situation with and without the puck,” central scouting bureau director Dan Marr said. ”He knows what needs to be done, and he’s not afraid to get dirty to go out and do it. But he also has the skills and finesse to play that type of a game to win you the game.”The world junior tournament became Tkachuk’s coming out party in finishing tied for fifth among tournament players with nine points. It carried over into the second half of his college season, where he had four goals and 17 points in his final 21 games in helping the Terriers clinch just their eighth Hockey East tournament championship.Tkachuk credited his improved production to learning how to play against older opponents.”I was used to winning battles, every battle in the USHL because they’re all my own age. But I found playing against 23-year-olds was different,” he said. ”Instead of just using my body, I had to use my mind, too, a little bit more and try to outsmart them.”What stands out is Tkachuk’s outgoing personality.He wasn’t afraid to joke during pre-draft interviews with prospective teams in saying how better looking he was than other players. And then there’s the picture accompanying Tkachuk’s combine profile, which features him with an upturned-lip smirk.”I like the smirk,” Tkachuk said. ”I’ve done it before and a lot of guys think it’s funny. It’s just my personality.”It helps not feeling intimidated being around NHLers, given his upbringing. He developed in a youth hockey system in St. Louis that included the sons of former NHL stars such as Chris Pronger Jonathan Ericsson Jersey , Al MacInnis and Jeff Brown.Tkachuk doesn’t feel burdened by having to live up to his last name. Instead, it’s motivation in fueling him to match what his father did in ranking fifth among American-born scorers with 1,065 points, and to one day keep pace with his brother, who already has 37 goals and 97 points in 144 games with Calgary.The competition could begin on draft day, when Tkachuk has a chance to be selected higher than his father (taken 19th in 1990) and brother (No. 6, in 2016).That would be fine with everyone, Keith Tkachuk said.”I would love that,” the proud father said, before breaking into a laugh. ”And Matthew would like it because he doesn’t want to sit in the stands too long watching.”Brady Tkachuk joked, the only concern is if he gets drafted by Edmonton, and the potential of one day pitting the two Tkachuks against each other in the ever-intense Alberta rivalry between the Oilers and Flames.”It’s definitely been discussed in my family,” Tkachuk said. ”It would be pretty cool, but I think it would be pretty stressful for the mom.”—