Johan Franzen scored two goals in the third period to help the Red Wings to a 3-2 comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators. The Red Wings trailed 2-1 heading into the third period before Franzen tied the score with a fantastic shot to the far side top corner on Martin Gerber. He gave the Wings the lead for good when his blast from the right side deflected off Filip Kuba and past Gerber at 18:43.

Ottawa opened the scoring on a 5-on-3 advantage 6:22 into the first period when Alexandre Picard's shot from the right point beat Chris Osgood high to the glove side for his first goal of the season. Detroit answered nearly five minutes later when Valtteri Filppula's quick wrist shot from the left circle eluded Gerber for a 1-1 tie.

The Red Wings were all over the Senators in the first period -- a change from the season opener Thursday night against Toronto -- as Detroit outshot Ottawa 17-6.

The Senators regained the lead late in the second period on a fantastic individual effort by Nick Folingo, who lept through two Red Wings players before knocking a loose puck past Osgood at the top of the crease.

Franzen took advantage of a sloppy Ottawa linechange to tie the game midway though the third period. After the puck was tapped to him from Brian Rafalski at the blueline Franzen skated in a snapped a hard, quick shot at the left faceoff dot past Gerber to tie the game.

Franzen's shot from the right faceoff circle with just 1:17 remaining deflected off Kuba and skipped off the ice before finding a hole above Gerber's right pad and under his blocker.

Osgood stopped 20 of 22 shots for the Red Wings, while Gerber finished with 38 saves on 41 Detroit shots.

Game Thoughts

-- Marian Hossa is not finishing. Hopefully, he's being streaky or just adjusting. He's played well in every area -- defense, creating chances -- but he's not finishing chances.

-- Ottawa looked at the Zetterberg line as Detroit's most dangerous, putting its top checking forward (Antoine Vermette) and shut-down defense pairing (Chris Philips and Anton Volchenkov) against Z's line. The Datsyuk line dominated the Jason Spezza line early, but didn't maintain that advantage throughout the game. If you asked me beforehand if the Datsyuk line would be held scoreless against the Spezza line, I wouldn't have believed it.

-- Martin Gerber looked bad. The winning goal was a deflection off Filip Kuba's stick, but the first two goals were both softies.

-- Datsyuk, Zetterberg and Holmstrom were reunited for a power-play shift in the third period to spark the team. No goal, but I wonder if Coach Babcock will be tempted to reunite the trio at even strength if the offense is sluggish.

-- Dan Cleary played a much better game. Had a lot of jump.

-- Johan Franzen scored two goals, including the winner, but he didn't get a lot of praise from Babcock afterwards. "I didn't think the Mule played like he did in exhibition in the first two games," said Babcock. "The Mule's got to understand the reason he's so good is that he's so big and physical. So he's got to be big and physical and the rest of the stuff will come."

Wings waive Kyle Quincey

Faced with a salary cap crunch and an inability to find an acceptable trade partner, the Red Wings placed defenseman Kyle Quincey on waivers today. If Quincey goes unclaimed past 12 noon Monday he can be re-assigned to the Red Wings' AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids and allows the club the flexibility to recall a goaltender for Monday's game in Carolina if one were injured tonight.

The move was necessitated by injures to Chris Chelios, Jimmy Howard and Darren McCarty that would have left the Red Wings unable to recall a goaltender as the club would have place a player on waivers. Since the waiver period over the weekend is 48 hours (instead of the standard 24 hours during the week), Detroit had to make a roster position available prior to Monday's game.