Franzen's late rally gives Red Wings first win

Johan Franzen scored two third-period goals to give defending champions the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday and a first win of the season.

Franzen tied the score 11:16 into the third period, then delivered the game-winner with 1:17 to play when his shot trickled into the net past Senators goalie Martin Gerber.

"It was a lucky one," Franzen told reporters "It got deflected off the defenseman's stick. I was shooting for the first (near) post and it got deflected to the other post. That was a tough play for him (Gerber)."

Detroit (1-1-0), who dropped their opener to Toronto on Thursday, never led until Franzen's winner.

"Hopefully, I will carry this with me and get the confidence back," said Franzen, who did not score in Thursday's season-opening loss by the 2008 Stanley Cup champions.

Ottawa grabbed a 1-0 advantage on Alexandre Picard's power-play goal 6:22 into the first period and went ahead 2-1 on Nick Foligno's unassisted goal late in the second.

Valtteri Filppula provided Detroit's other goal 11:01 into the first.

Red Wings netminder Chris Osgood stopped 20 shots for the victory as his team peppered his counterpart Gerber with 41 shots, 38 of which he saved.