Red Wings Bring Series Lead Over Lightning Back To Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - Lightning at Red Wings, Detroit leads 3-2, Game 6, Monday 7 p.m.
TIME AND SPACE: Tampa Bay led the league in goals during the regular season, but has been shut out twice in this series. Coach Jon Cooper was asked Sunday if the Red Wings might be getting away with interference. "Well, there's 30 teams in the league and nobody does it more than the Detroit Red Wings, hands down," Cooper said. "The old saying, if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin' - they do it to a `T.' My message to our guys is you've got to suck it up, you've got to fight through it. We've got to bring a gun to a knife fight. That's how it has to go. So good on them. We've got to be better."
CALM IN NET: Aside from a three-goal flurry at the end of Game 4, Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek has shut out the Lightning over the last three games. The 23-year-old Mrazek also had 44 saves in the series opener. "His first year in the American (Hockey) League, he wins the Calder Cup. You don't win the Calder Cup by accident," Babcock said. "Then every time we called him up, he played good. So to me he's just one of these guys that must be good. ... I don't know enough about the tactical skill and all that stuff, I just know it doesn't go in when he's in there."
Game 5 in a nutshell: The Detroit Red Wings wanted to make Game 5 a dull game and they absolutely succeeded. With dedication to team defense and never allowing Tampa Bay to establish any kind of pace, the Red Wings chipped away with one goal in each of the first two periods to help take a 3-2 series lead back to Detroit.
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