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				<title><![CDATA[Hossa, Zetterberg push Wings to verge of finals]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By RICK GANO
AP Sports Writer

CHICAGO(AP) -- Marian Hossa's short-handed goal got the
short-handed Detroit Red Wings started Sunday.

And once they got rolling, the defending champions overpowered
the frustrated Chicago Blackhawks and moved within one win of a
return trip to the Stanley Cup finals.

With injured stars Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk sidelined,
Hossa and Henrik Zetterberg had two goals each, sending the Red
Wings to a convincing 6-1 victory and a 3-1 lead in the Western
Conference finals.

"We heard this morning during the pregame meal he (Lidstrom) was
not playing. We just had to deal with it," Zetterberg said.
"Everybody had to step up and play."

Game 5 is Wednesday night back in Detroit, where the Red Wings
opened this series with a pair of wins.

Detroit took advantage of backup goalie Cristobal Huet, who made
his first start of these playoffs in place of injured Nikolai
Khabibulin. He gave up four goals and was pulled in the second.
Rookie Corey Crawford took over for the last 15:55 of the
period, but Huet returned in the third and allowed Zetterberg's
second power-play goal that made it 6-1.

Hossa's short-handed goal on a 2-on-1 break gave the Red Wings
the early lead and they added three power-play goals as Chicago
wore out the door to the penalty box.

"We tried to keep our poise. We knew they were coming,"
Zetterberg said of the Blackhawks, who had been upset after
Detroit's Niklas Kronwall flattened forward Martin Havlat with a
hard hit on Friday and drove him out of the game. "They didn't
basically have anything else to do once the game kind of ran
away," Zetterberg added.

Chicago coach Joel Quenneville was fuming over a call against
Blackhawks defenseman Matt Walker for roughing during a scrum as
the first period ended.

Leading 2-0, the Red Wings went on a power play to start the
second, and Valtteri Filppula scored just 1:13 in for a
three-goal Detroit lead.

"I think we witnessed probably the worst call in the history of
sports there," Quenneville said.

"You know, they scored, it's 3-0. They ruined a good hockey game
and absolutely destroyed what was going on on the ice," he said.
"It was a call that could. ... never seen anything like it."

Six-time Norris Trophy winner Lidstrom was scratched due to a
lower body injury. Coach Mike Babcock said he heard about the
injury - he said it was not serious - in a cab as he was coming
to the game. Datsyuk missed his second straight game because of
a sore foot.

"I thought we were going to dig in today," Babcock said, adding
he hoped Lidstrom and Datsyuk would be back for Game 5 on
Wednesday.

Johan Franzen also scored for the Red Wings, a momentum swinging
goal from far out on the right side with 20.7 seconds left in
the first as he was being defended by Brian Campbell. The shot
eluded Huet and made it 2-0.

Jonathan Toews had Chicago's lone goal on a second-period power
play.

Chris Osgood made 18 saves in two periods before he became
dehydrated and had to be replaced by Ty Conklin in the third.

Hossa scored a short-handed goal on a 2-on-1 break on a nice
give-and-go pass from Filppula in the first, quickly quieting
the crowd at the United Center.

In the second, after Toews scored to cut it to 3-1, Hossa skated
in 12 seconds later and beat Huet for his second goal, prompting
the switch to Crawford.

Zetterberg made it 5-1 when he scored on the power play against
Crawford when the Red Wings had a two-man advantage in the
second.

Hossa put the Red Wings up early after four Blackhawks,
including Campbell, got caught deep in the Detroit zone. Hossa
started a 2-on-1, short-handed break and made a nice crossing
pass to Filppula, whose perfectly timed return pass to Hossa
allowed him to beat Huet.

Huet's first appearance of the playoffs came Friday night in
Game 3 when he replaced an injured Khabibulin (lower body) to
start the third period of Chicago's 4-3 overtime win.

Notes: Havlat, whose status was unclear Saturday when he
didn't practice, got a rousing ovation when introduced. He
played only 7 minutes and 59 seconds.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:41:09 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Red Wings-Blackhawks Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By RICK GANO
AP Sports Writer

Detroit At Chicago, Game Four, 3:00 p.m. EDT

CHICAGO (AP) --  A jarring hit from Detroit's Niklas Kronwall, one
that flattened Chicago's Martin Havlat, has put a new spin on
the Western Conference finals.

It most likely knocked Havlat, the Blackhawks' points leader,
out for Sunday's Game 4 and spiked emotions between the old
Original Six rivals.

"Marty didn't have the puck," Chicago defenseman Brian Campbell
said Saturday. "If he hit Marty and hit him clean, that's fine.
That happens. ... It's just how he hits. You can see his
forearms coming up and his hands are coming up and he's lunging
forward and jumping into the guy."

Kronwall received a five-minute interference penalty and was
ejected from Friday night's Game 3 in which the Blackhawks
pulled out a 4-3 overtime victory.

Campbell was asked if Kronwall should watch out Sunday for any
retaliation.

"I don't know what will happen to him, but I'm sure there won't
be one check not finished on him," Campbell said.

Not only will the Blackhawks likely go without Havlat - who had
77 points this season and has 15 more in the playoffs - they'll
probably start backup goalie Cristobal Huet in place of Nikolai
Khabibulin.

Khabibulin played the first two periods Friday before leaving
with an injury. Huet replaced him and was able to stop a Red
Wings' surge that had produced three quick second-period goals
and wiped out Chicago's 3-0 lead.

Huet held the Red Wings scoreless in the third, and Patrick
Sharp's goal less than two minutes into overtime gave the
Blackhawks the win and cut Detroit's series lead to 2-1.

Detroit coach Mike Babcock said Kris Draper, hurt for most of
the playoffs, would be out again Sunday. And star center Pavel
Datsyuk, who missed Game 3 with a sore foot, would probably be a
game-time decision again.

Havlat was looking down for the puck near the boards in the
first period Friday when Kronwall hit him at full speed,
smashing him to the ice in a heap. A dazed Havlat stayed down
for several minutes before he was helped off the ice. He didn't
return.

"The way I felt things happened, the puck went off the wall and
he went to pick it up. I stepped in and he never saw me come. He
never touched the puck, but I felt like the puck was right
there," Kronwall said Saturday.

Told that some of the Blackhawks, especially Campbell, thought
it was a dirty play, Kronwall said, "I think I would have felt
the same way if someone did that to one of my teammates. It's
unfortunate he got hurt and that's how it is."

Asked if he hit Havlat in the head, Kronwall said: "Maybe that's
why he got knocked out. I don't know."

Chicago coach Joel Quenneville didn't directly address reports
that Havlat may have lost consciousness when he first crumbled
to the ice. He said doctors are monitoring his condition.

"We're not going to discuss the injury," Quenneville said. "His
health is going to be the first criteria before he's even going
to be considered to be playing."

Babcock reiterated Saturday his stance from a night earlier:
Kronwall's hit was not a cheap shot. It was a legitimate check
and should have not resulted in the five-minute penalty and game
misconduct.

"Coaches have bad games. Players have bad games. The league
doesn't let referees have bad games. So has there ever been a
bad call? Accountability," Babcock said.

"To me, that wasn't a head shot. So I don't think you should be
hunting anyone's head," he added. "I think that's real
important. But I also think it's a contact sport. And the puck
was coming around the wall. He saw it coming. He turned, chose
not to play it with his stick, was letting it come through his
feet. Kronwall stepped up on it. That's hockey."

Huet got a four-year, $22.5 million deal as a free agent last
summer. The Blackhawks eventually put Khabibulin on waivers, but
when no deal could be made to move him, he stuck around. They
split time during the regular season, but Khabibulin won the
starter's job for the playoffs. Huet's appearance Friday was his
first in the postseason this year.

"Coming in the third in a 3-3 tie wasn't something I'd ever
experienced and not something I'd recommend," Huet said
Saturday, adding that he's expecting to start Sunday, even
though no announcement was made.

"Now it's a little different," he added. "I'm going to have to
prepare tonight knowing I'm going to play (Sunday) - I guess."]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 21:31:25 GMT</pubDate>
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