DETROIT _ Sasha Barkov's scoring drought ended at the perfect time for the Florida Panthers on Thursday.
Barkov, who had not scored since the second game of the season against Detroit, scored in overtime to lift the Panthers to a 2-1 win as Florida won what could be their final visit to Detroit's Joe Louis Arena.
The Panthers, who went 0-6 on the power play in regulation, have won the first three meetings between the two teams this season and seven of the past eight at 'The Joe.'
Barkov's scoring drought ends at 22 games.
The Red Wings are moving to the new downtown Little Caesers Arena next season.
Florida's new-look power play didn't score Thursday but had plenty of chances including late in the first but Vincent Trocheck's game-tying goal was overturned as Jason Demers was shown on video to be offside coming through the zone.
Demers made up for it minutes later as he tied the score on a long shot from the right side that may have hit the skate of Detroit's Danny DeKeyser and past Petr Mrazek on a 4-on-4 chance with 1:41 left in the period.
Detroit's opened the scoring early on as Florida struggled to clear the puck deep in its zone. Aaron Ekblad got the puck in the corner and tried a blind, behind-the-back, between-the-legs pass to an unsuspecting Sasha Barkov.
The puck clipped Barkov's stick and went right to Henrik Zetterberg who backhanded a shot past Luongo for the 1-0 lead.
