Keith Dunlap
 |  Special to The Detroit News

Detroit — There might be 73 games left in the regular season, but it’s going to be really hard for the Red Wings to top the comeback they produced Saturday night against the St. Louis Blues. 

Down four goals before the game was barely 23 minutes old, the Wings went from hearing boos to delirious cheers from the fans at Little Caesars Arena, scoring six unanswered goals to earn a 6-4 win. 

It was quite a roller coaster ride, which produced two feelings afterward for Red Wings head coach Todd McLellan. 

First and foremost, he was obviously thrilled with the win.

“It’s amazing how that game went and how it felt,” said McClellan, who called a timeout after St. Louis took a 4-0 lead early in the second period. 

On the other hand, McLellan was visibly frustrated with his team’s inconsistency, saying it’s something he and his staff have to evaluate and fix. 

BOX SCORE: Red Wings 6, Blues 4

“It has to show up over and over again,” he said. “We can’t pick and choose fractions of the game or segments of the game where we want to play to our identity, and then it just disappears.”

The winner came with 9:12 remaining courtesy of Simon Edvinsson, who fired a shot from the point that deflected off St. Louis forward Brayden Schenn, changed direction and went past St. Louis goalie Jordan Binnington. 

St. Lous pulled Binnington with 1:30 remaining, but Edvinsson perfectly hit the open net on a clearing attempt from his own end line to make it 6-4 Wings. 

The Wings will now get ready to embark on a 5-game trip against Western Conference opponents, starting with a rematch against the Blues on Tuesday in St. Louis. 

Down 4-1 late in the second, the Red Wings scored two goals in less than 30 seconds to make it a 4-3 game. 

First, Emmett Finnie chipped a loose puck in the St. Louis crease past Binnington with 1:26 to go in the second to make it 4-2.

With 58.3 seconds left in the second, J.T. Compher tipped a shot by Travis Hamonic over the shoulder of Binnington to bring the Wings to within 4-3. 

The Wings tied the score at 4-4 with 9:59 remaining on the first goal of the season by Alex DeBrincat, who fired a wrist shot from in between the faceoff circles that beat Binnington to the stick side. 

“I think there was just belief we could come back and do it,” Compher said. “We were doing it greasy. We weren’t doing it tic-tac-toe. It was going to the net and earning goals and earning chances.”

St. Louis opened the scoring in the first on a power play when Jordan Kyrou wristed a shot from above the faceoff circles that got past Red Wings goalie John Gibson to give the Blues a 1-0 lead with 12:17 left in the first. 

The Blues took a 2-0 lead with 7:06 remaining the first on a goal by Jake Neighbours, who from the crease fought off a check and tipped in a pass from Justin Faulk.

Needing a good start to the second period, the opposite happened for the Wings. 

Edvinsson went off for holding just 27 seconds in the period and the Blues took advantage, taking a 3-0 lead 59 seconds into the second on a power-play goal by Pavel Buchnevich, who from in between the faceoff circles tipped in a pass from Dylan Holloway. 

St. Louis then made it 4-0 with 16:48 remaining in the second when Neighbours scored his second goal of the game on an open shot from the slot. 

The Red Wings finally got on the board at the 7:52 mark of the second on a power-play goal by Jonatan Berggren, who took a pass from Andrew Copp in the right face-off circle and buried the chance to make it 4-1 St. Louis. 

Keith Dunlap is a freelance writer.