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DETROIT -- Gustav Nyquist is making the most of his opportunity to play a lot for the injury-depleted Detroit Red Wings. Nyquist had two goals and Jimmy Howard made 31 saves to help the Red Wings hold on to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Tuesday night. The 24-year-old Nyquist has 19 goals in 43 games after he had a total of four goals in 40 games spread out over the previous two seasons in the league. Entering the game against Toronto, he was tied with Bostons Jarome Iginla with an NHL-high 12 goals since Jan. 20. "I didnt know that," Nyquist said. "Im just playing with some good players and Im getting some good bounces." While Nyquist is being humble about his goal-scoring stretch, teammate Daniel Alfredsson raved about the fellow Swede. "Hes really pesky on the forecheck and hes making a lot of plays," Alfredsson said. "His speed gives him chances that other players dont get. The second goal was a perfect example." Early in the third period, Nyquist poked the puck off the boards to himself and charged up the ice early to flick a wrist shot from the right circle that beat James Reimers blocker. That goal seemed to set the Red Wings up for the victory, but they still had work to do. Jake Gardiner scored on a power play midway through the third to pull Toronto within a goal. The Maple Leafs appeared to tie the game less than two minutes later, but Nazem Kardris goal was waved off because he made a kicking motion to knock the puck in with the inside of his right skate. The Red Wings went ahead by two goals again with 2:33 left when Alfredssons wrist shot from the slot hit the back of the net on an odd-man rush that Gardiner lamented. "I thought we were going to come back at the end, but we made a mistake," Gardiner said. The Maple Leafs pulled Reimer to add an extra skater seconds later and James van Riemsdyk scored with 1:13 left, but couldnt get the puck past Howard again to extend the game past regulation. "Not a lot of space out on the ice," Toronto coach Randy Carlyle said. Reimer stopped 28 shots for the Maple Leafs. Detroit is desperately trying to move up in the Eastern Conference standings to extend its post-season streak to 23 with a fraction of the team it expected to have this season. Toronto is the first of two wild-card teams in the East, and the Red Wings wouldnt make the playoffs is they started Wednesday. "A huge win for us," Nyquist said. "Also very important they didnt get a point too and we got two." The Red Wings lost forward Justin Abdelkader to a leg laceration in Sundays loss at Chicago, leading to the team calling up 22-year-old Landon Ferraro, son of former NHL player Ray Ferraro. "I was a little nervous at the beginning," Landon Ferraro acknowledged. Ferraro said it was "awesome" to have both his parents watch him play his first game for the Red Wings. "It was real nice for both of them to be able to get in and be here for this," he said before chatting with his father in the dressing room after the game. Abdelkaders injury also put 25-year-old defenceman Brendan Smith at forward for the first time since he was a teenager against Toronto. The banged-up team, which had won just two of their previous seven games, took another hit against the Maple Leafs. The Red Wings started the game with numerous forwards, including Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg, due to injuries and lost defenceman Jonathan Ericsson because of a broken finger. "We get somebody hurt every day and they never come back," Detroit coach Mike Babcock said. "I guess hes out for a bit. I dont really know. A hand specialist is looking at him." NOTES: The Maple Leafs beat the Red Wings in their previous meeting, a 3-2 shootout on New Years Day in the Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium, after losing the first matchup this season 5-4 in a shootout at home. ... Abdelkader is expected to be out for two weeks. ... Toronto, which closed its road trip 2-3, hosts Tampa Bay on Wednesday. ... Detroits next game is Thursday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yeezy Boost 350 Halvalla . In fact, with a few improvements, this could very well be a decent team over the next few seasons. I will go into more detail when digging into the Canucks Off-Season Game Plan, which will be coming earlier this year since they are part of the non-playoff contingent, there are some reasons to think this is a favourable situation for President of Hockey Operations Trevor Linden and whomever he selects to be the new general manager. 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Raonic, the mens No. 8 seed from Thornhill, Ont., needed more than three hours to overcome Frenchman Gilles Simon 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 and become the first Canadian man into the fourth round at Roland Garros.Ireland coach Joe Schmidt has named Paddy Jackson at fly-half for Saturdays first Test against South Africa at Newlands. The Ulster No 10 will fill the void left by Johnny Sextons shoulder injury after he was selected ahead of Ian Madigan for the opening match of the three-Test tour in Cape Town.Jackson made his international debut as a 20-year-old against Scotland during the 2013 Six Nations and has collected 13 caps since, but this will be his first start since the World Cup warm-up against Wales last August. Schmidt has, though, been impressed with Jackson in training and is confident he has the ability to fill in for Sexton.Hes slotted in really well, Schmidt said. I think that hes bided his time, hes been in camp a lot when Johnnys been in camp so hes seen Johnny kind of dictating the game, he has been the conductor of the orchestra and were confident that Paddy can step up and do a similar job.I think hes got big boots to fill, but I think his feet will slot in quite nicely.Jacksons Ulster team-mate Jared Payne will make his first start for Ireland at full-back after being moved from outside centre, where he has won his previous 14 caps, after Rob Kearney and Simon Zebo were both ruled out. Jared Payne will wear the No 15 shirt Robbie Henshaw moves to outside centre with Luke Marshall picked at No 12.Hooker and captain Rory Best will lead a forward pack that includes South Africa-born flanker CJ Stander, who will play against his country of birth for the first time. CJ Stander is set to lock horns with South Africa for the first time Stander was once rated as a Springboks prospect before leaving to play in Ireland in 2012.There are two changes in the pack from the eight that started in the 35-25 Six Nations victory over Scotland on March 19 with lock Iain Henderson and flanker Jordi Murphy the newcomers in place of Donnacha Ryan and Tommy ODonnell. Alan Quinlan looks ahead to Irelands Summer Tour of South Africa Ireland last toured South Africa in 2004, losing by 14 points in Bloemfontein and nine in Cape Town.dddddddddddd After Newlands, the Irish play Tests in Johannesburg on June 18 and in Port Elizabeth on June 25.Schmidt says he wants his team to put together a performance that will allow them to compete in the three-game series. Springboks debut for De Klerk Lions scrum-half named in starting line-up for first Test in Cape Town Were hoping to get something to build on, a platform to build on to try to put some things together that give us a little bit of confidence going forward, he said.Youre never going to be in a situation where everything works and transitions are seamless. Youre always going to have things to work out after that first Test.Theres a number of new personnel and were just hoping that we get enough confidence this weekend that we continue to build through the series.Ireland: 15 Jared Payne, 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 Luke Marshall, 11 Keith Earls, 10 Paddy Jackson, 9 Conor Murray; 1 Jack McGrath, 2 Rory Best (c), 3 Mike Ross, 4 Iain Henderson, 5 Devin Toner, 6 CJ Stander, 7 Jordi Murphy, 8 Jamie Heaslip.Replacements: 16 Sean Cronin, 17 Finlay Bealham, 18 Tadhg Furlong, 19 Ultan Dillane, 20 Rhys Ruddock, 21 Kieran Marmion, 22 Ian Madigan, 23 Craig Gilroy.Watch Ireland v South Africa live on Sky Sports 1 HD from 3.30pm on Saturday. Sky Sports Rugby Union Podcast - 8th June Also See: Springboks debut for De Klerk When are the Tests on Sky? Gilroy backing Jackson Easterby backs trio ' ' '