|
 Yanic Perreault and rookie Jonathan Toews also scored, and Jason Williams and Robert Lang each had two assists for the Blackhawks in their third straight victory and third of the season over Detroit.
Jiri Hudler and Nicklas Lidstrom scored for the Red Wings, 13-3-1 overall. Anaheim is the only other team to have beaten Detroit so far.
The Red Wings' Henrik Zetterberg, the NHL's leading scorer, had an assist to run his season-opening points streak to 17 games.
Chicago's Nikolai Khabibulin made 30 saves.
Perreault opened the scoring with 7:32 left in the first period. He scored on a high shot from the slot after taking Lang's bouncing pass from behind the net.
Kane made it 2-0 with a second left on a 5-on-3 Chicago power-play with 4:51 remaining in the first. He ripped in a one-time shot from the right side of the net after Lang threaded the puck through the crease.
Khabibulin stopped Brian Rafalski on a breakaway and Zetterberg's point-blank backhand shot early in the second.
Hudler cut it to 2-1 with 3:50 left in the second. He connected after driving up the slot and taking Tomas Kopecky's backhand feed from behind the net.
[to top of second column]
 |
Toews' power-play goal from the right circle with 1:32 left in the period made it 3-1. He fired in a high shot that may have been screened.
Lidstrom trimmed it to 3-2 with 6:15 left in the third. He scored on a screened shot from the point 5 seconds after a Detroit power play ended.
Notes: Toews, second among NHL rookies in scoring, has points in 13 of the 15 games he's played. ... Sunday's game was the first of seven home contests the Blackhawks are televising this season as part of a new package with a local cable network. Previous team president William Wirtz refused to voluntarily televise regular-season home games, although a handful of games were available to Chicago-area viewers as part of national or league network commitments. Wirtz died Sept. 27 and his son, Rocky, has since taken over as the Blackhawks' chairman. ... Detroit's healthy scratches were LW Matt Ellis, RW Aaron Downey and D Derek Meech. ... Chicago RW Martin Havlat, LW David Koci, C Kevyn Adams and D Andrei Zyuzyn remain on injured reserve.
[Associated Press]
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.
|
