GAME THREAD: NHL: CHICAGO (10-9) at DETROIT (13-5)

NHL: CHICAGO at DETROIT

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Chicago 1 1 --2
Detroit 1 2 --3
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Chicago, Rene Bourque 2 (shorthanded)
(Patrick Sharp), 1:16. 2, Detroit, Brian Rafalski 3 (Kris Draper,
Daniel Cleary), 5:47. Penalties: D Byfuglien, Chi (tripping), 1:09; D
Drake, Det (high sticking), 15:11.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 3, Chicago, Rene Bourque 3 (shorthanded) (Jim
Vandermeer, Brent Sopel), 12:49. 4, Detroit, Tomas Holmstrom 10 (power
play) (Henrik Zetterberg, Nicklas Lidstrom), 13:25. 5, Detroit, Henrik
Zetterberg 14 (Pavel Datsyuk, Tomas Holmstrom), 19:29. Penalties:
Bench, Chi ( served by P Kane), 9:52; D Bolland, Chi (delay of game),
11:26.

Shots on goal:
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Chicago 3 3 --6
Detroit 12 18 --30
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Goalies : Chicago, Nikolai Khabibulin (30 shots, 27 saves). Detroit,
Dominik Hasek (6 shots, 4 saves). Referees: Ian Walsh, Mike Leggo.
Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Greg Devorski.</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 2
DETROIT 3 19:55 LEFT, 3RD PRD</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 3
DETROIT 3
3RD PRD: CHI - PATRICK SHARP 8 (RENE BOURQUE, ROBERT LANG) 4:30</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 3
DETROIT 3 12:43 LEFT, 3RD PRD</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 4
DETROIT 3
3RD PRD: CHI - (SH) PATRICK SHARP 9 (YANIC PERREAULT) 13:04</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 5
DETROIT 3
3RD PRD: CHI - (EN) PATRICK SHARP 10 (DUNCAN KEITH) 19:30</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NHL FINAL 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
CHICAGO 1 1 3 5
DETROIT 1 2 0 3 FINAL

GOAL SCORING:

1ST PRD: CHI - (SH) RENE BOURQUE 2 (PATRICK SHARP) 1:16
DET - BRIAN RAFALSKI 3 (KRIS DRAPER, DANIEL CLEARY) 5:47
2ND PRD: CHI - (SH) RENE BOURQUE 3 (JIM VANDERMEER, BRENT SOPEL)
12:49
DET - (PP) TOMAS HOLMSTROM 10 (HENRIK ZETTERBERG, NICKLAS
LIDSTROM) 13:25
DET - HENRIK ZETTERBERG 14 (PAVEL DATSYUK, TOMAS HOLMSTROM)
19:29
3RD PRD: CHI - PATRICK SHARP 8 (RENE BOURQUE, ROBERT LANG) 4:30
CHI - (SH) PATRICK SHARP 9 (YANIC PERREAULT) 13:04
CHI - (EN) PATRICK SHARP 10 (DUNCAN KEITH) 19:30

POWER-PLAY CONVERSIONS: CHI - 0 OF 3, DET - 1 OF 5.

SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL
--- --- --- -----
CHI 3 3 11 17
DET 12 18 12 42

GOALIES: CHI - NIKOLAI KHABIBULIN
DET - DOMINIK HASEK

OFFICIALS: REF - IAN WALSH, MIKE LEGGO
LIN - BRAD KOVACHIK, GREG DEVORSKI

ATT: 20,066</div>

 

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Chicago 1 1 3 --5
Detroit 1 2 0 --3
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Chicago, Rene Bourque 2 (shorthanded)
(Patrick Sharp), 1:16. 2, Detroit, Brian Rafalski 3 (Kris Draper,
Daniel Cleary), 5:47. Penalties: D Byfuglien, Chi (tripping), 1:09; D
Drake, Det (high sticking), 15:11.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 3, Chicago, Rene Bourque 3 (shorthanded) (Jim
Vandermeer, Brent Sopel), 12:49. 4, Detroit, Tomas Holmstrom 10 (power
play) (Henrik Zetterberg, Nicklas Lidstrom), 13:25. 5, Detroit, Henrik
Zetterberg 14 (Pavel Datsyuk, Tomas Holmstrom), 19:29. Penalties:
Bench, Chi ( served by P Kane), 9:52; D Bolland, Chi (delay of game),
11:26.

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 6, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 8 (Rene Bourque,
Robert Lang), 4:30. 7, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 9 (shorthanded) (Yanic
Perreault), 13:04. 8, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 10 (empty net) (Duncan
Keith), 19:30. Penalties: N Lidstrom, Det (hooking), 5:08; B
Rafalski, Det (hooking), 6:12; T Ruutu, Chi (slashing), 6:53; J Toews,
Chi (delay of game), 11:58.

Shots on goal:
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Chicago 3 3 11 --17
Detroit 12 18 12 --42
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Power-play Conversions: Chicago - 0 of 3, Detroit - 1 of 5. Goalies :
Chicago, Nikolai Khabibulin (42 shots, 39 saves; record: 7-6-1).
Detroit, Dominik Hasek (16 shots, 12 saves; record: 5-4-1). A: 20,066.
Referees: Ian Walsh, Mike Leggo. Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Greg
Devorski.</div>

 

DETROIT (Ticker) -- Being shorthanded is not always a badthing. Just ask the Chicago Blackhawks.


Rene Bourque scored a pair of shorthanded goals and PatrickSharp recorded a natural hat trick in the third period thatincluded his league-leading fourth while down a skater as theBlackhawks remained perfect against the Detroit Red Wings thisseason with a 5-3 victory on Saturday.


Sharp and Bourque each added an assist and Nikolai Khabibulinmade 39 saves for Chicago, which leads the NHL with eightshorthanded tallies.


With the Blackhawks trailing, 3-2, after two periods, Sharp wasall but unstoppable in the third, reeling off three straightgoals for his first career hat trick.


Just 4 1/2 minutes into the final period, Bourque knocked thepuck into the crease from the left side of the net. Sharp wasthere to tap it past goaltender Dominik Hasek, forging a 3-3tie.


Just over a minute after rookie Jonathan Toews was called fordelay of game, Sharp skated down the right wing on a partialbreakaway after Detroit defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom fell at theleft point. While shielding the puck from oncoming blue-linerNiklas Kronwall, Sharp put it by Hasek at 13:04, giving theBlackhawks a 4-3 edge.


Sharp was stopped on another shorthanded breakaway with sixminutes remaining, but he completed his hat trick - andChicago's fourth win in as many meetings with Detroit thisseason - with an empty-netter with 30 seconds left.

Bourque got things started just 76 seconds into the contest,netting a shorthanded goal to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead.

With Chicago defenseman Dustin Byfuglien in the penalty box fortripping, Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg won a faceoff in theoffensive zone. But Bourque pounced on the puck and banked itoff the right wing boards in the neutral zone before skatingaround blue-liner Brian Rafalski and retrieving it.

Racing in alone on Hasek, Bourque slipped the puck past thesix-time Vezina Trophy winner for his second goal of the season.

The Red Wings answered at 5:47, as Rafalski atoned for hisearlier gaffe by grabbing a rebound at the inner edge of theright circle and firing the puck between the pads of Khabibulin.

Bourque struck again while shorthanded in the second period togive Chicago a 2-1 edge.


Defenseman Jim Vandermeer dumped the puck into Detroit's zonealong the left wing boards. It took a strange bounce in thecorner and wound up in the slot for Bourque, who blasted itbetween Hasek's legs at 12:49.


All three of Bourque's tallies this season have come whilekilling penalties.


The Red Wings cashed in on the same power play 36 seconds later,when Tomas Holmstrom scored his 10th of the season to knot thecontest at 2-2. Lidstrom unleashed a slap shot from above theslot that was tipped by Zetterberg in the left circle beforeHolmstrom tapped the puck past Khabibulin with 6:35 to go in theperiod.


Zetterberg gave Detroit its first lead with 31 seconds remainingin the session, receiving a feed from behind the net by PavelDatsyuk and burying a shot from the left side for his 14th goal.

 

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Chicago 1 1 3 --5
Detroit 1 2 0 --3
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Chicago, Rene Bourque 2 (shorthanded)
(Patrick Sharp), 1:16. 2, Detroit, Brian Rafalski 3 (Kris Draper,
Daniel Cleary), 5:47. Penalties: D Byfuglien, Chi (tripping), 1:09; K
Draper, Det (high sticking), 15:11.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 3, Chicago, Rene Bourque 3 (shorthanded) (Jim
Vandermeer, Brent Sopel), 12:49. 4, Detroit, Tomas Holmstrom 10 (power
play) (Henrik Zetterberg, Nicklas Lidstrom), 13:25. 5, Detroit, Henrik
Zetterberg 14 (Pavel Datsyuk, Tomas Holmstrom), 19:29. Penalties:
Bench, Chi (too many men served by P Kane), 9:52; D Bolland, Chi
(delay of game), 11:26.

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 6, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 8 (Rene Bourque,
Robert Lang), 4:30. 7, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 9 (shorthanded) (Brent
Seabrook, Yanic Perreault), 13:04. 8, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 10 (empty
net) (Duncan Keith, Brent Sopel), 19:30. Penalties: N Lidstrom, Det
(hooking), 5:08; B Rafalski, Det (hooking), 6:12; T Ruutu, Chi
(slashing), 6:53; J Toews, Chi (delay of game), 11:58.

Shots on goal:
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Chicago 3 3 11 --17
Detroit 12 18 12 --42
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Power-play Conversions: Chicago - 0 of 3, Detroit - 1 of 5. Goalies :
Chicago, Nikolai Khabibulin (42 shots, 39 saves; record: 7-6-1).
Detroit, Dominik Hasek (16 shots, 12 saves; record: 5-4-1). A: 20,066.
Referees: Ian Walsh, Mike Leggo. Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Greg
Devorski.</div>

 

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CHICAGO 1 1 3 --5
DETROIT 1 2 0 --3
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Chicago, Rene Bourque 2 (shorthanded)
(Patrick Sharp), 1:16. 2, Detroit, Brian Rafalski 3 (Kris Draper,
Daniel Cleary), 5:47. Penalties: D Byfuglien, Chi (tripping), 1:09; K
Draper, Det (high sticking), 15:11.

SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 3, Chicago, Rene Bourque 3 (shorthanded) (Jim
Vandermeer, Brent Sopel), 12:49. 4, Detroit, Tomas Holmstrom 10 (power
play) (Henrik Zetterberg, Nicklas Lidstrom), 13:25. 5, Detroit, Henrik
Zetterberg 14 (Pavel Datsyuk, Tomas Holmstrom), 19:29. Penalties:
Bench, Chi (too many men served by P Kane), 9:52; D Bolland, Chi
(delay of game), 11:26.

THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 6, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 8 (Rene Bourque,
Robert Lang), 4:30. 7, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 9 (shorthanded) (Brent
Seabrook, Yanic Perreault), 13:04. 8, Chicago, Patrick Sharp 10 (empty
net) (Duncan Keith, Brent Sopel), 19:30. Penalties: N Lidstrom, Det
(hooking), 5:08; B Rafalski, Det (hooking), 6:12; T Ruutu, Chi
(slashing), 6:53; J Toews, Chi (delay of game), 11:58.

Shots on goal:
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CHICAGO 3 3 11 --17
DETROIT 12 18 12 --42
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Power-play Conversions: CHI - 0 of 3, DET - 1 of 5. Goalies : Chicago,
Nikolai Khabibulin (42 shots, 39 saves; record: 7-6-1). Detroit,
Dominik Hasek (16 shots, 12 saves; record: 5-4-1). A: 20,066.
Referees: Ian Walsh, Mike Leggo. Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Greg
Devorski.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

CHICAGO DETROIT
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
P Sharp 3 1 +4 7 D Cleary 0 1 -1 4
R Bourque 2 1 +2 5 P Datsyuk 0 1 -1 3
S Samsonov 0 0 -1 1 D Meech 0 0 even 0
T Ruutu 0 0 even 0 D Drake 0 0 even 0
J Toews 0 0 even 0 K Maltby 0 0 +1 1
D Keith 0 1 +2 0 B Lebda 0 0 -1 2
R Lang 0 1 even 2 J Hudler 0 0 -3 0
M Lapointe 0 0 +1 0 B Rafalski 1 0 -1 2
J Vandermeer 0 1 +2 0 A Lilja 0 0 even 0
D Bolland 0 0 -1 0 K Draper 0 1 +1 4
A Burish 0 0 +1 0 M Samuelsson 0 0 -3 5
J Wisniewski 0 0 -1 0 H Zetterberg 1 1 -1 8
B Sopel 0 2 +3 0 N Lidstrom 0 1 -2 4
D Byfuglien 0 0 -1 0 V Filppula 0 0 -2 1
M Johansson 0 0 even 0 N Kronwall 0 0 -2 0
B Seabrook 0 1 +1 1 T Kopecky 0 0 even 1
P Kane 0 0 even 1 J Franzen 0 0 even 3
Y Perreault 0 1 even 0 T Holmstrom 1 1 -1 4
A Zyuzin HEALTHY C Chelios HEALTHY
J Williams GROIN A Downey HEALTHY
M Ellis HEALTHY</div>

 

DETROIT (Ticker) -- Being shorthanded is not always a badthing. Just ask the Chicago Blackhawks.


Rene Bourque scored a pair of shorthanded goals and PatrickSharp recorded a natural hat trick in the third period thatincluded his league-leading fourth while down a skater as theBlackhawks remained perfect against the Detroit Red Wings thisseason with a 5-3 victory on Saturday.


Sharp and Bourque each added an assist and Nikolai Khabibulinmade 39 saves for Chicago, which leads the NHL with eightshorthanded tallies.


"We're going to be a little more aggressive when we can,"Blackhawks coach Denis Savard said of his penalty-killing unit."We got the bounces, let's face it."


"It's careless play," Detroit defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom saidof allowing three shorthanded goals. "We didn't take care ofthe puck when we had it. You have to play defense even whenyou're on the power play. We just have to play betterdefensively."


With the Blackhawks trailing, 3-2, after two periods, Sharp wasall but unstoppable in the third, reeling off three straightgoals for his first career hat trick.


"We knew going into the third period we had to play well,"Bourque said. "We had 20 minutes to get back into it. Wehadn't played well in the second period."


Just 4 1/2 minutes into the final period, Bourque knocked thepuck into the crease from the left side of the net. Sharp wasthere to tap it past goaltender Dominik Hasek, forging a 3-3tie.


"We were a little too passive to start the third," Lidstromsaid. "We just let them back into the game again."

Just over a minute after rookie Jonathan Toews was called fordelay of game, Sharp skated down the right wing on a partialbreakaway after Lidstrom fell at the left point. Whileshielding the puck from oncoming blue-liner Niklas Kronwall,Sharp put it by Hasek at 13:04, giving the Blackhawks a 4-3edge.


"We've had success all year shorthanded, and we tried to beaggressive," Sharp said. "Anytime we have a chance to take itto the net, we do."


"They haven't given up or gone away whenever we're up a goal ortwo," Lidstrom said. "That's a lot of credit to them, but we asa team have to do a better job when we've got the lead andcontinue to play hard for 60 minutes."


Sharp was stopped on another shorthanded breakaway with sixminutes remaining, but he completed his hat trick - andChicago's fourth win in as many meetings with Detroit thisseason - with an empty-netter with 30 seconds left.

"It was fun," Sharp said of his three-goal effort, the firstallowed by the Red Wings at home since October 29, 2003, whenDoug Weight accomplished the feat for the St. Louis Blues.

"He played great," Savard said of Sharp. "I told you guys lastyear. I gave him more ice time and his play got better."

Bourque got things started just 76 seconds into the contest,netting a shorthanded goal to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 lead.

With Chicago defenseman Dustin Byfuglien in the penalty box fortripping, Detroit's Henrik Zetterberg won a faceoff in theoffensive zone. But Bourque pounced on the puck and banked itoff the right wing boards in the neutral zone before skatingaround blue-liner Brian Rafalski and retrieving it.

Racing in alone on Hasek, Bourque slipped the puck past thesix-time Vezina Trophy winner for his second goal of the season.

The Red Wings answered at 5:47, as Rafalski atoned for hisearlier gaffe by grabbing a rebound at the inner edge of theright circle and firing the puck between the pads of Khabibulin.

Bourque struck again while shorthanded in the second period togive Chicago a 2-1 edge.


Defenseman Jim Vandermeer dumped the puck into Detroit's zonealong the left wing boards. It took a strange bounce in thecorner and wound up in the slot for Bourque, who blasted itbetween Hasek's legs at 12:49.


All three of Bourque's tallies this season have come whilekilling penalties.


The Red Wings cashed in on the same power play 36 seconds later,when Tomas Holmstrom scored his 10th of the season to knot thecontest at 2-2. Lidstrom unleashed a slap shot from above theslot that was tipped by Zetterberg in the left circle beforeHolmstrom tapped the puck past Khabibulin with 6:35 to go in theperiod.


Zetterberg gave Detroit its first lead with 31 seconds remainingin the session, receiving a feed from behind the net by PavelDatsyuk and burying a shot from the left side for his 14th goal.

Holmstrom and Zetterberg each added an assist and Hasek madejust 12 saves for Detroit, which was outshot, 42-17.

"They'll say they deserved better, and of course, they did,"Savard said.


Khabibulin made 27 of his saves over the first two periods. Histeam, in turn, registered just three shots in each of thesessions.


"The game could have been lost in the first 40 minutes, butNikolai Khabibulin kept us in it," Sharp admitted.