The producers produced for the Detroit Red Wings Thursday, when Dylan Larkin, Lucas Raymond, Patrick Kane and Alex DeBrincat each scored a goal.

The team has sought more from the supporting cast all season, and lately James van Riemsdyk has stepped up in that role. His goal in the 6-5 shootout loss at Columbus was his fourth in five games, his third on the power play.

The 17-year veteran seems to be finding his comfort level after picking up just one goal and one assist his first 17 games.

“I feel like I’ve always been that way in my career, as the year goes on, always seem to get better and better,” van Riemsdyk said. “I think that’s just finding a little bit of a groove and just that chemistry, that sometimes takes some time to get developed. But I just want to continually improve day to day and continue to try to do what I can to help the team win.”

The Red Wings (14-12-2) visit Seattle on Saturday (10 p.m., FanDuel Sports Net Extra), the second stop of their six-game trip.

Missing training camp and the preseason, especially with a new team, undoubtedly set back Van Riemsdyk. He’s been generating more chances over the past five games with 14 shots on goal (2.8 per game), as opposed to 19 shots his first 17 games (1.1 per game).

“I felt good about certain parts of my game,” he said. “Obviously, I would love to be more productive and that’s the difference in a lot of one-goal games. So felt good about some of the looks I was getting and just execution-wise and some of those little details. I think that’s always going to be a staple in my game. That’s what wins and loses games if you’re able to get guys chipping in up and down the lineup. I know that’s obviously a part of my job.”

The Red Wings need others to chip in more, too.

Larkin, Raymond, DeBrincat and Kane have 43 goals and 109 points between them. The other 10 forwards have combined for 29 goals and 70 points.

Andrew Copp has gone 26 games without a goal and has only one this season. Marco Kasper has gone 17 games without a point. Elmer Soderblom has just one point (a goal) in 15 games.

“We want to put pressure on our top players to score, and they have done a real good job of it,” coach Todd McLellan said. “We don’t want that to disappear, but we can’t expect them to carry the load on their shoulders throughout the whole year.”