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BOSTON -- Jonas Gustavsson didnt have a lot of time to plan for his first action of the season. Gustavsson didnt find out until nearly game time that Detroits No. 1 goaltender Jimmy Howard was going to be sidelined with a catching hand injury. Then the backup stopped 28 shots and led the Red Wings to a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins on Monday afternoon. "Maybe 15, 20 minutes before the game started," Gustavsson said, sitting at his locker taking his equipment off in a nearly empty dressing room following the win. "It felt good. I was excited to play. Its always fun to go out and have your first game, especially when we have a chance to win." And the Red Wings (4-2) had to hang on right until the last second to get their second straight victory. Milan Lucics 100th career goal sliced it to 3-2 with 1:20 to play. With Bruins netminder Tuukka Rask pulled for an extra skater, Boston had the puck in Detroits zone for nearly all of the final 80 seconds. Stephen Weiss and Daniel Cleary scored second-period goals for the Wings. Henrik Zetterberg had the other score. Loui Eriksson had Bostons other goal. The Bruins had a two-man power-play advantage for nearly two minutes early in the third period, but couldnt mount a comeback. "It looks like were feeling the pressure of not scoring goals," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "Our goal-scoring confidence is not where we need it to be and weve got to get that straightened out." Gustavsson bobbled a few shots in the opening period, but improved as the game went on. He made a pair of stops on Jarome Iginlas shots from the left point when the Bruins had the two-man edge for 1:54 early in the third period. "Thats how it is usually in a game," Gustavsson said. "When you get your first shots on you, you grow into the game. I felt pretty good. The guys helped me a lot to feel good." As for Howard, he didnt think hed be able to play in the next game at home against Columbus on Tuesday night. "Doubtful," he said. "Were really just going to have to wait and see. Hopefully, itll heal fast." Tuukka Rask made 24 saves for Boston (3-2). Boston also had a power play with just under six minutes left, when Daniel Alfredsson was whistled for boarding, but failed to get any good scoring chances. The Bruins went 0 for 5 on the power play. "You go through it," Iginla said of still looking for his first goal of the season. "Sometimes it frustrates you and you do a little too much. Theres no excuse. Ive been through it before." Weiss score pushed the Red Wings ahead 2-1 midway into the second period. Johan Franzen fired a pass from the left corner to Weiss alone in front and he beat Rask with a wrister inside the left post. Detroit then made it 3-1 on Clearys goal 2:20 later when he slipped a shot by Rask inside the right post after collecting Alfredssons from the side of the net. The Red Wings jumped ahead 1-0 when Zetterberg took a feed from Pavel Datsyuk midway into the first period. Datsyuk gathered the puck near centre ice after Patrice Bergeron mishandled it, broke in down the middle, shifted around Boston defenceman Zdeno Chara and sent a backhand pass by two other Bruins perfectly to Zetterberg, who redirected it past Rask from the bottom of the left faceoff circle. Johnny Boychuks shot from the right point ricocheted off Erikssons knee and by Gustavsson to tie the game at 14:12 of the first. NOTES: Bruins LW Shawn Thornton played his 500th career game. ... Hall of Famer Milt Schmidt dropped the ceremonial first puck. The former Bruin is 95 years old. ... The Bruins showed highlights of Tom Bradys last-minute drive and David Ortizs grand slam on the Jumbotron. ... Julien said before the game "it was pretty awesome" to be at Fenway Park for Game 2 of the ALCS Sunday night after listening to the Patriots rally against the New Orleans Saints in the car driving to the Red Sox-Detroit Tigers game. ... Boston beat Detroit 4-1 in the teams first meeting Oct. 5. ... 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Instead, Robinson was slowed by a series of nagging injuries and appeared in only nine games, making 14 tackles and defending just two passes. He was also part of a defence that was torched by Indianapolis wide receivers in a loss that knocked Kansas City out of the playoffs. The move was widely expected not only because the 31-year-old Robinson struggled most of the season, gradually losing playing time to undrafted free agent Marcus Cooper, but also because the cash-strapped Chiefs would save more than $3 million. The Chiefs were bumping along the just below the salary cap at the beginning of the week, and theyre expected to make more moves -- perhaps restructuring some of the long-term contracts signed by the previous regime -- so that they can sign their draft class and be active in free agency. Kansas City is expected to lose Pro Bowl left tackle Branden Albert, who was franchised last season, though there are several in-house candidates to replace him. 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