The Red Wings are at 23 wins in a row

“Where are we at with the streak?” Drew Miller asked after a 3-2 victory Sunday against the San Jose Sharks.

The Red Wings are at 23 wins in a row at Burberry belts Joe Louis Arena, which is an N.H.L. record, and six in a row over all. They lead the league with 84 points. The Pacific Division-leading Sharks have lost six of eight.

Detroit, which broke the league’s single-season record of 20 on Tuesday, has now surpassed the 22 wins in a row the Boston Bruins had over two seasons more than eight decades ago. But the Red Wings are only .500 on the road.

“We’ve got a good thing going, but we need to take it on the road,” Miller said.

Henrik Zetterberg and Miller gave Detroit a two-goal lead midway through the second period. After Logan Couture scored late in the second period for San Jose, Darren Helm restored the two-goal edge 7:01 into the third.

Patrick Marleau added a goal for the Sharks with 4:44 left.

The Red Wings ended a five-game regular-season losing streak against San Jose, which has eliminated them in the second round in each of the past two postseasons.

“We have a lot of rivals, but that’s the one we seem to play a lot in the playoffs,” Zetterberg said. “So you want to win each game against them.”

As the Sharks captain Joe Thornton was leaving the arena, someone said he would see him again in Detroit for the playoffs.

“Absolutely,” Thornton said with a smile.

WILD 2, BRUINS 0 Niklas Backstrom made a career-high 48 saves for his fourth shutout of the season for host Minnesota. Matt Cullen and Chad Rau each scored a goal as the Wild won for only the second time in February. Rau, who is from Eden Prairie in the Twin Cities area, Burberry ties cheap was called up earlier in the day from Minnesota’s minor league affiliate in Houston to fill in for Warren Peters, who was suspended for cross-checking David Backes in St. Louis on Saturday night.

Rau’s goal was his second of the season and it gave the Wild a 1-0 lead in the second period. Cullen, of Virginia, Minn., added a power-play goal five minutes later.

SABRES 6, PENGUINS 2 Derek Roy had two goals and an assist in his best outing in nearly four months and host Buffalo ended a four-game losing streak. Roy, who had a great shot saved by Marc-Andre Fleury in the second period, redirected a centering pass from Jason Pominville through Fleury’s legs in the Sabres’ three-goal third.

Roy has five points (two goals, three assists) in his last three games, matching what he had in his previous 20 (three goals, two assists). Pominville had a goal and two assists for Buffalo (25-27-7), which moved out of a tie with Carolina for last place in the Eastern Conference.

BLACKHAWKS 3, BLUES 1 Dave Bolland scored the go-ahead goal in the third when his centering attempt hit the stick of visiting St. Louis’s David Backes and went in. Corey Crawford made 29 saves for Chicago, which has won three in a row. Andy McDonald scored in the first for the Blues, who made the 1-0 lead stand up with tough defense — entering the game, St. Louis had allowed the fewest goals in the league (tied with the Rangers) at 114 — and the goaltending of Brian Elliott.

Duncan Keith had the tying goal in the third, and Marian Hossa added an empty netter with 49 seconds to go.Burberry ties, Burberry belts, Burberry scarves 2012 new arrivals.

EXTENSION FOR NEAL James Neal and the Penguins agreed to a six-year, $30 million contract extension. Neal’s career-best 30 goals are second on the team behind Evgeni Malkin’s 32 and tied for fourth in the league. He also has a career-best 56 points and 13 power-play goals, tied for the league lead. A first-time All-Star selection, Neal has failed to get a point only 19 times in 58 games this season. “I couldn’t have found a better spot,” Neal said.