Pat Caputo: Finally, The Red Wings Championship Pedigree Showed Up
Down three games to one and headed to San Jose for Game 5 Sunday, it still seems highly unlikely the Red Wings will rally to defeat the San Jose Sharks.
But this much you must give the Red Wings, regardless of what occurs the remainder of the Stanley Cup playoffs: They did show their championship pedigree, albeit briefly, Friday night at Joe Louis Arena.
Having blown a three-goal lead, and with whatever hope that remained turned to despair, the Red Wings put together a tremendous flurry on San Jose goalie Antti Niemi late in the third period.
A sellout crowd, which had gone from boisterous to sitting on its hands became boisterous again.
Finally, when Darren Helm buried the game-winning goal with 1:27 remaining in regulation time, you'd never know the Red Wings remain down by such a lopsided margin in this series.
