Lukas Sedlak got his first NHL goal for the Blue Jackets, who have earned at least a point in 12 of their last 13 games. Cam Atkinson contributed a short-handed goal in the first period for Columbus.
Dylan Larkin's power-play goal in the second was the only scoring of the night for the Red Wings. Sergei Bobrovsky had 32 saves for the Blue Jackets.
Sam Gagner scored into an empty net with 13.9 seconds remaining.
Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek was pulled in favor of Jimmy Howard after Sedlak's goal made it 3-1 in the second.
Mrazek was miffed after the goal that put the Blue Jackets up 2-1. He came well out of his crease to cover up a rebound, but there was no whistle, and he ended up playing the puck around the boards. A Columbus player was waiting and shot it back toward the net, and Dubinsky scored easily on a rebound.
Sedlak, playing his 23rd game of his first NHL season, backhanded in a rebound to chase Mrazek.
Atkinson opened the scoring in the first, beating Mrazek with a wrist shot 22 seconds into Detroit's power-play. Anthony Mantha of the Red Wings hit the post later in the period when he broke in on Bobrovsky from the left.
Detroit tied it in the second when Larkin scored from the left circle on a rebound.
The first-round draft selection of the Washington Capitals out of the impressive 2014 class recorded his first NHL goal Friday, tapping in a precise goalmouth feed from Evgeny Kuznetsov.
Vrana will take home the souvenir from just his fifth start in the NHL.
Carey Price is the standard for aspiring goalies and potential future Hall of Famers alike.
In an interview with Jason Botchford of the Province, Roberto Luongo said that even as he nears the twilight of his career, the pursuit of becoming the NHL's best goaltender, however unrealistic, continues to drive him.
"It's crazy for me to think this way, but I still want to be the best," he explained. "It drives me every day to work hard in practice, and to try to get better and sharper.
"That's what drives me inside right now. I want to be as good as Carey Price, even though that will never happen."
Sure, Luongo's former Olympic teammate is on a completely different level. But the heavily-bearded Florida Panthers stopper, who's gained such unique perspective on his profession over the last several seasons, has maintained an incredibly static standard of quality through it all.
Luongo is on pace to post a fourth consecutive season with a plus-.920 save percentage, or a total save rate slightly beyond his career average throughout his return stint with the Panthers.
Only six regulars have a better total efficiency rate during that stretch. Price, of course, being one of them.
That certainly isn't how the Detroit Red Wings drew up their power play.
After Columbus Blue Jackets forward Sam Gagner was dinged for tripping early in the first period Friday, putting Detroit on the man advantage, the Red Wings had a golden opportunity to grab a quick lead over the red-hot Blue Jackets. Except the opposite happened.
Beginning in his own zone, Blue Jackets winger Cam Atkinson blazed into the Red Wings' end on a 2-on-1 alongside linemate Brandon Dubinsky, before firing a clean shot top corner on Red Wings goalie Petr Mrazek.
The tally marked Atkinson's ninth goal of the season.
Chris Neil will have more than one way to remember his 1,000th NHL game.
When Neil and the Ottawa Senators take on the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday, it will mark the 1,000th game for the veteran winger, as he becomes the latest player to join the NHL's millennium club.
Neil becomes just the 308th player in league history to play 1,000 games. That's more than the likes of Maurice Richard, Yvan Cournoyer, and Peter Stastny, to name a few.
To mark the occasion, Neil will take to the ice with a stick marked with "1000th NHL Game" along the shaft.
Sticks Chris will be using when he becomes the 46th @NHL skater to play his first 1,000 games w/one team tmrw in LA. pic.twitter.com/2g1pVtZPSB
The 37-year-old made his NHL debut with the Senators in 2001.
That same season, the noted enforcer set a season-best in penalty minutes, when he was called for 231 minutes in the box. In 2005-06, he scored a career-best 33 points. Neil has tallied 112 goals and 136 assists through 999 games.
There has been a shake-up on the executive committee of the NHL's board of governors.
At the second day of the governors meetings in Palm Beach, Fla., the NHL's board of governors - made up of one representative from each of the league's 30 clubs - appointed two new faces to its executive committee.
Karmanos, who did not attend the meeting due to illness, recently settled a lawsuit with his sons, who claimed Karmanos borrowed against a family trust to finance the franchise. The Hurricanes are also a frequent target of relocation rumors. The franchise has called Raleigh home since 1997, when it relocated from Hartford.
The executive committee handles multiple issues, including vetting new ownership applications, league expansion, collective bargaining, and more.
Molson and Chipman will join an executive panel that includes:
PALM BEACH, Fla. - As the primary target of opponents over his Hall of Fame career, Wayne Gretzky can certainly empathize with the frustration of Oilers star Connor McDavid.
McDavid and Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Brandon Manning jostled all evening long in a 6-5 Edmonton loss. McDavid denounced the tactics of his opponent after the game, claiming Manning intentionally injured him last season; McDavid missed 37 games with a broken collarbone.
''I guess we can put the whole `if he did it' thing to rest because what he said out there kind of confirmed that,'' said McDavid, who taunted Manning after scoring the second goal in the Oilers' loss.
''I think anybody who knows me or who has played with or against me along the road here, knows that I am not that kind of player,'' Manning said, according to a statement released by the Flyers. ''I am not out there intentionally trying to hurt people. I'm a guy who plays the game hard and I take pride in that.''
Gretzky didn't mind seeing that fire in McDavid, saying competitiveness is part of what makes the great ones great. And he said the targeting comes with the territory of being a superstar. It was something he and Mario Lemieux dealt with, too.
''And Connor, he's going to get tested every night, but this is not new for him,'' Gretzky said Friday at the NHL board of governors meetings. ''He's been tested since he was a kid and then playing junior hockey and now in the NHL and he's always responded and done his part.''
The yearly dollar amount isn't the issue. Clutterbuck is already making $3.5 million in salary this season despite his $2.75-million cap figure. The controversial part is the term - more specifically, giving a fourth-liner five more years, ensuring he's under contract until age 34.
Clutterbuck certainly isn't useless, particularly when it comes to the penalty kill and his penchant to serve as a net-front presence, but much of his value is intangible, and therefore, it's difficult to justify this move.
He does do one quantifiable thing well, ranking fifth in the NHL among qualified skaters with 3.6 hits per game, but racking up hits simply means you don't have the puck.
Cal Clutterbuck is credited with 89 hits this season. 12 of them have caused the opponent to lose the puck.
Though Snow is an experienced GM, this is hardly his first misstep.
He signed 30-year-old forward Andrew Ladd to a seven-year, $38.5-million deal on July 1, in a clear effort to offset the departures of Kyle Okposo and Frans Nielsen, who agreed to significant contracts elsewhere. Ladd has three goals and six points in his first 26 games with the Islanders.
Snow also seems to have his own sort of seven-year itch. He inked defensemen Nick Leddy and Johnny Boychuk to deals of that length in February and March 2015, respectively. Leddy's pact was for the same amount as that of Ladd, and Boychuk is earning $42 million.
Then there was the Casey Cizikas contract. Snow gave Clutterbuck's fellow fourth-liner a five-year extension of his own in June.
The Islanders now have only two pending unrestricted free agents (veteran blue-liner Dennis Seidenberg and backup goaltender Thomas Greiss), but they've also committed about $30 million to six players for 2018-19, when John Tavares is scheduled to become a free agent.
Clutterbuck and Tavares were OHL teammates and the captain likely appreciates having his de facto bodyguard locked in, but that might not matter if the Islanders are too hamstrung by Snow's ill-advised long-term commitments to pay Tavares what he wants when that time comes.
The Clutterbuck deal is just the latest example of how Snow is hurting the Islanders' long-term flexibility by giving non-superstars too many years.