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 Petr Mrazek made 16 saves for his third career playoff shutout in
Detroit's 2-0 win over Tampa Bay in Game 3 of the series Sunday
night at Joe Louis Arena.
The Lightning lead the best-of-seven series two games to one. Game 4
is Tuesday night in Detroit.
"I thought we did a good job from the start of the game tonight all
the way through," Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. "I thought we
played well on both sides of the puck."
Mrazek replaced Jimmy Howard, who started the first two games of the
series.
"It's always harder when you don't have many pucks on the net,"
Mrazek said. "But I tried to stay focused, and guys did a great job
in front of me, blocking lots of shots and didn't give them any easy
chances."
Andreas Athanasiou and Henrik Zetterberg scored for Detroit.
 "I thought we played pretty good," said Zetterberg, the Red Wings
captain. "We minimized our mistakes, tried to stay out of the box as
much as possible and played in their end."
Ben Bishop made 28 saves for Tampa Bay.
"They played really hard," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "Their
desperation level was high, They were the more desperate team."
The Red Wings held Tampa Bay's line of Tyler Johnson between Nikita
Kucherov and Alex Killorn without a shot after the trio scored seven
of the Lightning's eight goals and combined for 15 points in the
first two games.
Blashill used the line of Luke Glendening, Riley Sheahan and Justin
Abdelkader against Johnson, Kucherov and Killorn.
"I thought they did a good job of taking away their space," Blashill
said. "But they also did a good job of grinding them in the
offensive zone."
The Red Wings scored both goals in the second period.
Athanasiou, a rookie forward, made it 1-0 with 7:18 left in the
period. His one-time slap shot of a rolling puck from the left
circle deflected off Bishop's blocker and in on the short side. It
was the first playoff goal of Athanasiou's career.
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"It was rolling. The old knuckle puck," Athanasiou said. "You never
know where it's going to go. I was fortunate enough for it to go
in."
Zetterberg made it 2-0 with 2:38 left in the period. The puck
deflected in off his skate during a goalmouth scramble.
The goal went to a review from the NHL Situation Room in Toronto
twice. The first time was to determine if Zetterberg kicked the puck
in. When the goal was upheld on that review, Lightning coach Jon
Cooper challenged that Bishop was interfered with before the goal.
The goal was once again upheld.
"Yeah, it was just a scramble in front," said Zetterberg, the
Detroit captain. "I knew it hit my skate and it was a lot of people
there. It was a nice feeling when after all the delays (I) saw it
was a good goal."
The delay was about seven minutes.
It was Zetterberg's first goal of the playoffs, his first in 14
games and second in 27 games. It was also Zetterberg's second goal
in his past 19 Stanley Cup playoff games.
Bishop stopped Sheahan on a breakaway with 7:37 left in the first
period.
"They played well tonight out there. They shut us down in the
neutral zone," Tampa Bay forward Ryan Callahan said.
Tampa Bay killed off a 59-second two-man disadvantage late in the
first period. The Lightning allowed only two total shots on the two
power plays combined.
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