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Johan Franzen (left) celebrates with teammates after scoring during Monday’s 5-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers. (Jerry S. Mendoza/Associated Press)

Brad Stuart scored with 1:07 left to lift the Detroit to a 5-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night after the Red Wings blew a 4-0 second-period lead.

Johan Franzen had a goal and an help, and Andreas Lilja, Nicklas Kronwall and Drew Miller also scored for Detroit, which won its sixth straight. Jimmy Howard stopped 22 shots.

Tom Gilbert scored twice, Mike Comrie added a goal and an help, and Zack Stortini also scored for Edmonton. Jeff Deslauriers made 39 saves.

Stuart tipped Pavel Datsyuk’s shot out of the air and past Deslauriers for his third goal. The play went to video replay to check if Stuart’s stick was high.

Gilbert’s second goal of the game, with 9:30 left in regulation, tied it at 4. He place in a one-time shot from the left circle for his fifth goal.

Stortini’s wraparound goal made it 4-3, 3:03 into the third period. It was his fourth goal.

Detroit led 3-0 after the first period.

Lilja opened the scoring with his first goal, 6:38 into the game, when Valtteri Filppula’s soft shot from the top of the left circle deflected in off Lilja as he skated past the crease. The goal was originally credited to Filppula but was changed during the first intermission.

Kronwall made it 2-0 with 5:38 left in the first period with his sixth goal. He scored on a one-time snap shot from the slot. Miller place in a loose puck from the slot for his 10th goal to cap the period with 27 seconds left.

Franzen’s power-play goal with 3:29 left in the second period made it 4-0. He got his 10th goal on a one-time shot from the slot.

But Edmonton scored twice in 56 seconds to trail 4-2 at the end of two periods.

Gilbert’s first goal, on the power play, place the Oilers on the scoreboard with 2:58 left in the middle period. It was one-time slap shot from the high slot off a face-off. Comrie then came down the left wing, faked a slap shot from the circle and slid a shot between Howard’s pads for his ninth goal.

Maxim Afinogenov celebrates his goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs during the Atlanta Thrashers 3-2 win Tuesday. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press)

Nik Antropov picked the perfect time to get his first career goal against his former team, scoring the winner Tuesday in Atlanta’s 3-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs to keep the Thrashers’ playoff hopes alive.

The large forward, originally from Kazakhstan, tipped a shot past Jonas Gustavsson at 4:44 of the third period, putting Atlanta back ahead just 57 seconds after Viktor Stalberg had tied the game.

Atlanta remained two points behind Boston for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference after the Bruins defeated New Jersey 1-0 in overtime.

Antropov played his first nine seasons with the Maple Leafs and hadn’t recorded a point in three games against his former team. He finished with a goal and an help on Tuesday. Maxim Afinogenov and Evgeny Artyukhin also scored for Atlanta.

Viktor Stalberg had both goals for the Maple Leafs.

With the Thrashers playing for the second time in as many nights, there was very small sense of urgency in the first period. Both teams were sloppy with passes and failed to make many quality scoring chances.

But, Atlanta got the break it needed early in the second period after Leafs defenceman François Beauchemin failed to clear the puck from the defensive zone. Afinogenov was able to wheel around untouched and beat Gustavsson with a wrist shot at 6:18.

Artyhukin extended the lead to 2-0 just 46 seconds later, taking a perfect pass from Marty Reasoner and roofing the puck.

Leafs come out hard in final period

Suddenly, the Leafs were reeling. Afinogenov had the chance to place the game away after jumping off the bench and taking a long breakaway pass, but Gustavsson managed to stop him.

It proved to be an vital save when Tyler Bozak and Stalberg went back up the ice on a 2-on-1 break. Bozak appeared to hold the puck too long but managed to find his fellow rookie, who banked a shot in off Ondrej Pavelec’s skate to make it 2-1 at 17:43.

The Leafs came out hard in the final period, and Stalberg scored his second to even the score. He corralled the puck in the high slot and beat Pavelec high to the glove at 3:47.

But, Antropov responded less than a minute later, tipping a Ron Hainsey point shot home to help secure an vital win.

Toronto had plenty of opportunities to tie the game with a final power play in the final two minutes, but Pavelec stood tall.

That sent Gustavsson to his first loss since before the Olympic break. The rookie goaltender entered with a seven-game win streak and was hoping to join exclusive company — the last Leafs goalie to win at least eight straight was Felix Potvin in October 1993.

The CN freight train derailed at Pickering GO station around 3 p.m. Tuesday. (Mike Abate/CBC)

Via Rail passenger service in the Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal corridors was expected to resume Wednesday morning after it was suspended Tuesday afternoon on account of a CN freight train derailment near Oshawa.

Via did not expect any trains to be cancelled Wednesday morning but said some trains might face minor delays because of rail congestion around the derailment site east of Toronto, said a statement posted on the Via website shortly before 9 p.m. ET Tuesday.

No one was injured in the freight train derailment, which happened around 3 p.m. when three non-operating locomotives derailed and nine freight cars went off the tracks near Pickering station, which is part of the GO Transit commuter train network, said CN spokesman Mark Hallman.

GO and Via service was affected.

The wreckage blocked all three of CN Rail’s main tracks and temporarily shut down GO service on the Lakeshore East line. GO service had resumed as of 5:40 p.m., but trains were not able to stop at the Pickering station.

Via trains were unable to travel for the rest of the afternoon and evening in either direction between Toronto and Ottawa or Montreal.

Rail passengers with tickets were place on buses but faced delays of up to two to three hours, mainly because of rush-hour traffic, said Via spokeswoman Catherine Kaloutsky at the time.

Alternatively, travellers were told they could opt for a refund or exchange their ticket for travel on a different day at no extra cost.

CN reported that some diesel fuel leaked from a locomotive during the incident. The rail cars had been carrying plastics, lumber and potash as well as a methylene product used in the manufacture of polyurethane. But, that chemical did not leak.

The cause of the derailment remained under investigation.