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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Detroit Red Wings halted a lengthy skid in their last game before the NHLs Christmas break, and they hope to add another win on Saturday when they visit the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. The Red Wings had lost six in a row (0-4-2) before salvaging the finale of a four-game homestand in Tuesdays matchup with Buffalo. Detroit posted a 6-3 win over the Sabres, but it wasnt as easy as the final score suggests. Buffalo actually held several leads in the game before the Red Wings pumped in five unanswered goals to end the contest. The six goals on Tuesday matched Detroits total offensive output from the previous six games. After cutting the deficit to 3-1 late in the second period, the Wings scored four times in the third. Detroit also finished 4-for-6 on the power play. We are happy our power play is working now, said Tomas Tatar, who posted two goals in the comeback victory. Like I said, just shoot from everywhere, just try and eventually the puck will go in. Henrik Zetterberg and Danny DeKeyser each finished with a goal and assist, Stephen Weiss and Johan Franzen also scored and Gustav Nyquist supplied three helpers for the Red Wings. Petr Mrazek stopped 13-of-16 shots in the win. Jimmy Howard, who missed the last two games due to a lower-body injury, is expected to be back between the pipes tonight. Detroits No. 1 netminder is 4-3-0 with a 3.37 goals against average in seven career games against the Senators. Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall is questionable for tonight after suffering an upper-body injury against Buffalo. Stephen Weiss also sustained an upper- body injury on Tuesday, but is likely to play tonight. Ottawa is coming off consecutive regulation losses and those setbacks dropped the Sens to 3-3-1 since Dave Cameron took over as head coach for the fired Paul MacLean. The Sens went 0-2 on a brief road trip after losing 2-1 in Washington on Monday. Ottawa outshot the Capitals 39-23, but Braden Holtby made 38 stops to frustrate the Sens offense. Erik Condra had the lone goal for Ottawa, tying the game 1-1 with 4:04 left in the second period. However, Nicklas Backstrom scored the game-winner on the power play in the final minute of the second stanza. We gave ourselves an opportunity to win the game, Cameron said. We ran into a guy who was seeing the puck really well tonight, thats going to happen from time to time. Ottawa received 21 saves from Craig Anderson, who is expected to start tonight. Anderson is 4-6-0 with a 2.84 GAA in his career versus Detroit. The Red Wings and Sens have split a pair of games so far this season, with each club winning on home ice. Detroit has claimed three of four and seven of the last 10 matchups in this series. Ottawa halted a four-game home losing streak against the Red Wings when it notched a 3-1 victory on Nov. 4. 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CHICAGO -- After blowing an early two-goal lead against the New York Islanders, the Chicago Blackhawks buckled down and rode a one-goal lead to victory. Michal Handzus scored the go-ahead goal 6:45 into the second period and the Chicago Blackhawks held on for a 3-2 win over the Islanders on Friday night. Chicagos Jonathan Toews and rookie Joakim Nordstrom connected in the first period, while Duncan Keith had two assists. Nordstroms goal was his first in the NHL. In its previous two games, defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago wasnt in buttoned-down form as it allowed Tampa Bay and St. Louis to score late in a shootout and a regulation loss. It looked like more of the same was brewing Friday. The Blackhawks jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but New Yorks Josh Bailey scored at 19:06 of the first period and Kyle Okposo scored 49 seconds later to it at 2-all. "Against St. Louis and Tampa, there were a few points we left on the table," Toews said. "Tonight could have been one of those nights where we fall into that trend of squeezing the stick a little bit too hard late in the game only up one goal. "But we maintained our composure. We know what weve got to do to protect those leads and play smart late in games. Weve improved on that." After Handzus restored Chicagos lead in the second, the Blackhawks were poised and tidy, even if they couldnt add to their advantage. "We didnt get that extra goal tonight, which made it close all the way to the end, but I still thought we did some good things," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. "But I liked what we gave up, and that wasnt much." Chicagos Nikolai Khabibulin made 17 saves and New Yorks Kevin Poulin finished with 25 as both goaltenders made their first starts this season. The 40-year-old Khabibulin rejoined the Blackhawks last summer as a free agent to back up Corey Crawford. Evgeni Nabokov had started the Islanders first three contests. Chicago had allowed five power-play goals in nine attempts entering the game, but killed both New York advantages on Friday. The Islanders lost for the first time in regulation, and coach Jack Capuano wasnt surprised based on his teams effort.dddddddddddd. "When you mismanage the puck against that team and you dont make them play a 200-foot game, youre never going to have success and thats exactly what happened," he said. "Our execution level was down and we had some passengers tonight." The Blackhawks dominated the first period and took a 2-0 lead before the goals by Bailey and Okposo in the final minute of the frame evened it. Set up by Niklas Hjalmarssons feed from behind the net, Nordstrom opened the scoring midway through the first period from just outside the crease to cap a Chicago flurry in the New York zone. Toews made it 2-0 with 3:55 left in the period when Brent Seabrooks shot from the right point bounced off the back boards and straight to Toews in the left circle. He fired into an open net before Poulin could recover. Bailey wristed in a shot with 54 seconds left in the first to cut it to 2-1 after he corralled Michael Grabners drop pass in the right circle. Okposo tied it at 2 with just 5 seconds remaining in the period on a backhand shot from a crowd in the slot. He was set up by John Tavares pinpoint pass from behind the net. New York, however, didnt capitalize on the momentum swing. "We got a couple of big goals there to get us back in the game and we werent able to sustain that into the second period," Tavares said. "Weve got to keep on generating opportunities." Handzus put Chicago back ahead when he was left uncovered in in the slot and popped in a rebound of Duncan Keiths shot from the point after the puck rolled off Poulin. Both teams had a handful of chances in the third, including a couple of close-in attempts by Tavares. NOTES: RW Cal Clutterbuck played his first game with the Islanders. He was acquired in an off-season trade from Minnesota, then sat out the first three games this season with a leg laceration. ... Khabibulin was Chicagos No. 1 goaltender for four seasons, from 2005-09. ... The 21-year-old Nordstrom played in his fourth NHL game. ... Both teams play again on Saturday night. The Blackhawks host Buffalo and the Islanders are at Nashville. ' ' '