WASHINGTON (AP) -- With 54 shots on goal, the most in a game by an NHL team this season, the Detroit Red Wings were far from upset about a 2-2 tie against the Washington Capitals.

Steve Yzerman scored on a power play with 5:02 left in regulation Friday night as Detroit rallied from a two-goal deficit despite 52 saves by the Capitals' Olaf Kolzig -- the most by a goalie this season.

	Washington's Adam Oates tries to get the upper hand on Detroit's Doug Brown as they go after a loose puck.

"When you're down two, and you're down in the first minute on the road, you're happy to get the point," Red Wings coach Scotty Bowman said. "It would have been disappointing to lose the game."

Previous highs this season for shots on goal by one team and saves by a goalie occurred in San Jose's 5-1 win over Nashville on Oct. 14. The Predators had 52 shots on goal, while Sharks goalie Steve Shields had 51 saves.

The tie prevented the Capitals from pulling even with first-place Florida in the Southeast Division. Washington has 78 points, one behind the Panthers, who lost to the Rangers, 4-2, Friday night. Detroit has 84 points and trails first-place St. Louis by six points in the Central Division.

Detroit, which trailed 2-0 after the first period, tied the score when Yzerman took a pass from Nicklas Lidstrom at the top of the left of the faceoff circle and ripped his 28th goal of the year past Olaf Kolzig, who made a career-high 52 saves.

"They got a lot of shots off," Kolzig said. "We're pleased we got a point, but it could have been a win."

Despite not having three of their top scorers, the Capitals scored 16 seconds into the game on a goal by Andrei Nikolishin. He won a faceoff and sent the puck back to Peter Bondra whose initial shot was stopped by Detroit's Chris Osgood, who had 19 saves. Joe Murphy slapped the rebound into Osgood's stick before Nikolishin put in the second rebound for his ninth goal of the season.

Washington played Friday's game without center Jan Bulis, left wing Richard Zednik and defenseman Sergei Gonchar, who have combined for 39 goals and 66 assists for Washington this season.

Washington scored again nearly eight minutes later when Jeff Halpern collected a Steve Konowalchuk centering pass in between the circles and sent a high wrist shot past Osgood. Konowalchuk's pass was intended for Ulf Dahlen, but it deflected to Halpern, who scored his 10th goal of the year.

"It was lucky," Halpern said. "It just came to me, I have no idea where it went in."

The two first period goals was a stark contrast for the Red Wings, which, before Friday, had outscored opponents 70-45 in the first period of games this season.

Detroit pulled to 2-1 when Vyacheslav Kozlov batted a deflected shot by Yzerman out of the air behind Kolzig. The goal was Kozlov's 18th of the year.

Friday's game had more to do with missed opportunities than the converted ones. Sergei Fedorov, who was activated yesterday from injured reserve, had a shot go off the crossbar and Bondra misfired on several breakaways.

"We should have put them away at the start of the second period when we had a couple of breakaways," Capitals coach Ron Wilson said. "I knew we wouldn't have the legs ... the first half is where we would win the game, not the second half."

Detroit, which was playing its first game in six days, had beaten the Capitals seven consecutive times, including a four-game sweep of Washington in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals.