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DETROIT -- Normally a bit player, Brandon Tanev played a starring role Friday night.Tanev scored his second goal of the game and his NHL career with 1:16 left to help the Winnipeg Jets beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-3 on Friday night.The Jets rallied from a 3-2 third-period deficit.The resiliency of this group is incredible, Tanev said. We didnt stop pushing. Thats the thing.The fourth line player was undrafted, signed as a free agent and was playing his 15th game.This is my first time playing at Joe Louis Arena and to get my first goal and then that, Tanev said. Its just a great feeling.Patrik Laine, Mark Scheifele and Nikolaj Ehlers also scored for Winnipeg. Connor Hellebuyck, from the Detroit-area suburb of Commerce Township, stopped 30 shots.The players did a great job of shutting the game down in the first period, Jets coach Paul Maurice said. I really enjoyed this win from a coachs standpoint.Luke Glendening, Henrik Zetterberg and Justin Abdelkader scored for Detroit, and Petr Mrazek made 26 saves. The Red Wings are 0-3-1 in their last four to drop to 6-5-1.Youve got to play a complete game in this league. Players are too good and will make you pay if you make mistakes and turn the pucks over, Abdelkader said. Weve got to be better that way but theres lots of things to build off of the last few games. Its a long season. Well be better and get ready for Sunday (when the Red Wings host the Edmonton Oilers).It was Gordie Howe night at Joe Louis Arena. The family of the late Hall of Famer spoke to the media before the game. Howe died on June 10 at the age of 88. His son, Mark Howe, is Detroits director of pro scouting. The first 5,000 fans received Gordie Howe statue replicas.Mark and his siblings, Marty, Murray and Cathy dropped the puck for the ceremonial opening faceoff.Tanev scored the winner on a breakaway, beating Mrazek on the glove side.Ehlers added an empty-net goal in the last minute. It was his third goal.Tanevs first goal, with 7:36 left, tied it at 3.After he beat Mrazek under the crossbar from in close, the puck went in and out so fast play continued for about a minute. After a stoppage, the play was reviewed and called a goal.Abdelkader gave Detroit a 3-2 lead 9:12 into the third period.Scheifele tied it at 2 earlier in the third period. It was his sixth goal.I thought we started really well. Even in the second it felt like we carried the play at times. Then in the third for whatever reason, I thought we fell back a little bit, said Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall, who made his season debut after being bothered by a sore knee, In saying that, I dont know how many great scoring chances they had. But they came out winning. Two points are what you need and we didnt get that.Zetterberg gave the Red Wings a 2-1 lead 9:40 into the second period. He batted the rebound of Tomas Tatars shot out of the air and into the net.The goal was originally waved off because it was first indicated that Zetterbergs stick was higher than the crossbar. But referees Chris Lee and Ghislain Hebert and linesmen Tim Nowak and Ryan Galloway huddled and immediately reversed the call. The call of a goal was then upheld by the NHL Situation Room in Toronto.Glendening gave Detroit a 1-0 lead 3:04 into the game when he deflected Dan DeKeysers shot/pass from the left point past Hellebuyck. It was Glendenings first goal of the season.Laine tied it at 1 with 4:30 left in the first period. He leads NHL rookies with seven goals.NOTE: Detroit D Niklas Kronwall made his season debut. He missed the first 11 games of the season because of knee pain. ... Winnipeg was without LW Drew Stafford (upper body), D Tyler Myers (lower body) and D Mark Stuart (lower body). ... The Red Wings were missing LW Thomas Vanek (hip). ... It was the second of back-to-back games for the Jets. They lost 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals on the road Thursday night.UP NEXTJets: Visit New York Rangers on Sunday.Red Wings: Host Edmonton Oilers on Sunday. AMSTERDAM -- At the lowest point, when chemotherapy had turned Thomas Van der Plaetsen bald and weak at 23, even his brother, coach and biggest fan, Michael, thought chances for a comeback were minuscule. Now, barely a year and a half later, he is heading to the Rio Olympics as the European decathlon champion -- and with a full head of hair.Failing to get close to the medal stand at the Olympics wont feel anything like losing gold. Just being back among the best, participating in the 10-event competition that crowns the worlds greatest athlete, is already his biggest victory of all.It was a long road back, the Belgian said. If I can reach and convince only one person to stay positive in such a situation, I will take that as a victory.Even if life had already given him a few knocks -- he lost his father to cancer at 20 -- he was well on the way up in 2014 when he won a bronze medal at the world indoor championships.Then, early that fall, he got a letter at home from anti-doping authorities.It was notification that he had an abnormal test for the HCG hormone, which usually indicates doping in athletes. Before he had time to wrap his head around it, Belgian media had caught wind of the test, and rumors were rife that yet another athlete was not what he promised to be.But Van der Plaetsen knew he hadnt doped and sought another explanation. It led him to testicular cancer.For a man and athlete, both options were shocking, likely career-ending and life-changing. Yet, as a doping suspect, it forced him to make his illness, so utterly personal, a public issue within days.It was extremely painful, he said. To be put at the stake at such short notice when I could not defend myself is totally wrong. There was little time to dwell on being wronged, though. There was an operation to remove the tumor, sapping sessions of chemo to endure.Three months later, he made his first appearance as an athlete again when he received Belgiums Golden Spike as best athlete for his bronze at the world indoors the previous March. It already seemed a lifetime ago.Sheer on willpower, he decided to make a comeback. This is where his brother, Michael, came in. Not any coach can push a recovering cancer patient, but when it is your brother, things are different.Michael took him on training camp in South Africa. They set out with little medical guidance but one defining motto: You cannot train on self-pity.You cannot moan and complain about it all the time, Michael saaid in an interview with The Associated Press.dddddddddddd You need to forget and look ahead. Look for the little victories in life. It is the only way forward.Still, it was painful enough early on. What looked like a simple warmup left him exhausted. A good day would be followed by two bad days. With 10 running, jumping and throwing events, there was always something to cloud his mind. If it was not the javelin, it could be the 100 meters. He knew that the days when he could improve on sheer athleticism alone were gone. I was real tough on him, but he knew he had to get moving again, Michael said. Thomas realized he had to fundamentally change to survive.The most important lesson is that I took a huge leap when it comes to skills, Thomas said, honing his technical talents to make up for loss of raw power. And I learned how to stay focused. There was no option. If I made one mistake, it was over and out. I was with my back against the wall, one error and its over. That is the biggest victory. I reinvented myself as an athlete to be able to get back at my level even despite the physical setbacks.Michael knew his brother thrived on championships. Despite the short deadline, he entered him to defend his World University Games title last summer. Against the odds, he did. There was a glimmer of hope, and the chance to become an Olympian now had a whiff of possibility. Still, it was a setback when he barely missed out on qualifying for Rio at last years world championships, where he came in 14th.Van der Plaetsens elbow started acting up over the winter, a huge drawback for the javelin and shot put events. Qualifying had to be postponed until the European championships in Amsterdam in early July.He came through, not only with the qualifying margin but also with a European gold medal. Yes, he was overjoyed, when thousands were cheering him. Yet, he knew some opposition had stayed away to prepare for Rio, and he was frustrated for falling short of his personal record of 8,255 points by 37 points in windy and chilly weather. I wont get lyrical about it, but it is simply good, he said.Michael now wants to see his brother beat his personal best in Rio.Symbolically that would be great -- to close out the season with proof that he is better than ever before.---Follow Raf Casert on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rcasert ' ' '