Originally published Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 12:00 AM
NHL playoffs | Detroit beats Dallas, leads West series 2-0
The Detroit Red Wings kept rolling without their hottest player. Darren Helm and Henrik Zetterberg scored first-period goals to help make...
DETROIT — The Detroit Red Wings kept rolling without their hottest player.
Darren Helm and Henrik Zetterberg scored first-period goals to help make up for the loss of Johan Franzen, and Detroit held on for a 2-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Saturday night — and a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference final series.
Franzen, who has a franchise-record 12 goals in the postseason, missed the game and will not play in Game 3 Monday in Dallas because of concussion-like symptoms.
Stephane Robidas tied the score at 1 at 10:41 of the first period, but the Stars struggled to put pressure on Red Wings goaltender Chris Osgood.
Dallas' Marty Turco made 32 saves and his league record at Joe Louis Arena fell to 0-9-2.
Osgood, a former Seattle Thunderbird, stopped 17 shots and improved to 8-0 as a starter in the playoffs this season. In the final seconds, Osgood used the handle of his stick to poke at Dallas' Mike Ribeiro when he was skating past the net. Ribeiro slashed Osgood across the chest from behind the net.
"Even if I did butt-end him, it was an accident," Osgood said. "I was trying to protect our best player, Nick Lidstrom, so he didn't get run."
After watching a replay, Stars coach Dave Tippett blamed Osgood for the fracas.
"Ribeiro is actually letting up on the guy and Osgood just sticks his stick out and butt-ends him," Tippett said. "Ribeiro is not going to turn around and chop the goalie like that without having something happening. I looked at it and said, 'What's he doing?' until I went in and looked at the tape."
After some scuffling, Ribeiro was called for a match penalty.
Of Ribeiro's slash, Detroit center Kris Draper said, "Something like that, that's right out of 'Slap Shot.' It's literally intent to injure."
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