OTTAWA // Johan Franzen scored two third-period goals to give the defending champions the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday and a first win of the season. After tying the score, Franzen grabbed the winner with just a minute to go. "It was a lucky one," Franzen said. "It got deflected off the defenceman's stick. I was shooting for the first [near] post and it got deflected to the other post."
Detroit who had lost their opener to Toronto on Thursday, never led until Franzen's winner. "Hopefully, I will carry this with me and get the confidence back," added Franzen. Ottawa grabbed an early advantage on Alexandre Picard's power-play goal in the first period and went ahead 2-1 on Nick Foligno's unassisted goal late in the second period. Valtteri Filppula provided Detroit's other goal 11 minutes into the first.
Red Wings netminder Chris Osgood stopped 20 shots for the victory as his team peppered his counterpart Martin Gerber with 41 shots, 38 of which he saved. However, he could not stop Franzen's winner. "I didn't really get a break there," Gerber said. "It came in the middle, and then hit and came bouncing twice and at the last bounce came up and over my stick." * Reuters
