Detroit’s Jakub Vrana celebrates his goal with Filip Hronek against the Boston Bruins in the third period Tuesday night in Detroit. Paul Sancya/Associated Press
DETROIT — Jakub Vrána had a goal and an assist, Alex Nedeljkovic made a season-high 47 saves and had an assist, and the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Boston Bruins 5-3 on Tuesday night.
The victory snapped a six-game losing streak for Detroit and halted Boston’s three-game win streak.
Dylan Larkin, Michael Rasmussen, Filip Zadina and Sam Gagner also scored for Detroit.
The Bruins got goals from Erik Haula, Brandon Carlo and Patrice Bergeron, and Jeremy Swayman made 24 saves.
Zadina broke a 2-all tie at 11:32 in the second period. Swayman had moved to cover Vrána at the left side of the net and Vrána found Zadina for his ninth goal of the season.
Vrána’s goal came on the power play at 4:08 of the third, when he fought through traffic and fired the puck from the left dot into the top left corner of the net.
The Boston Bruins struck first with two goals in the first period, Haula at 4:43 and a short-handed score by Carlo with about six minutes left.
With Oskar Sundqvist screening Swayman, Larkin scored with 39.3 seconds left in the first, two seconds after the team’s power play had expired. It was Larkin’s 30th goal of the season, the second time in his career he has reached the 30-goal mark. He had a career-best 32 during the 2018-19 season.
Rasmussen tied the game at 5:46 of the second period for his third goal in four games.
The Bruins pulled within one on Bergeron’s goal with about three minutes left. Charlie McAvoy assisted, extending his assist streak to six games.
Gagner scored the empty-net goal with 47 seconds left.
NOTES: David Pastrnak and Trent Frederic did not play Tuesday’s game in Detroit against the Red Wings, and could miss even more time. Pastrnak, who has been dealing with a core issue since he tweaked something in a March 18 win against the Jets, fell awkwardly off a faceoff in Monday 3-2 win in Columbus and left the game in the third period. Frederic, with a history of concussions, left in the second period after taking a hard check from defenseman Jake Christiansen. He got up slowly and made his way directly to the bench. He did not return. … Bruins defenseman Hampus Lindholm left the game in the third period with a lower-body injury.
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