ROAD TRIP STARTS WITH DUCKS LOSS; FEDOROV SHINES FOR RED WINGS : DETROIT 5, DUCKS 2.

Byline: Associated Press 

Sergei Fedorov had a goal and an assist in a three-goal first period Wednesday night, leading the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-2 victory over the Mighty Ducks.

Darren McCarty, Tomas Holmstrom, Brendan Shanahan and Igor Larionov also scored goals and Larry Murphy added two assists for the Red Wings, who have won three straight after losing six of eight.

Paul Kariya scored both goals for Anaheim, which lost the opener of a six-game road trip after winning five of its previous seven games. Teemu Selanne returned to the Mighty Ducks' lineup after missing six games with a strained muscle in his right thigh and assisted on Kariya's second goal.

Detroit goalie Norm Maracle, making his second start of the season, had 26 saves in place of injured regular Chris Osgood.

Anaheim's Guy Hebert stopped 30 shots. But Hebert, who hadn't allowed more than one goal in four of his last five starts, was beaten on the Red Wings' first shot and three of their first 10.

Fedorov has a point in five straight games after going scoreless in his previous six. He's scored a goal in four straight, three since joining a line with McCarty and Steve Yzerman.

McCarty and Fedorov set up each other to give Detroit an early 2-0 lead.

Fedorov made a cross-ice pass to McCarty, who rifled a shot from the top of the right circle that beat Hebert over his shoulder at 3:10. Just 3:06 later, Fedorov skated in with a pass from McCarty and, after making a move around Kevin Haller, found the net with a shot from nearly the same spot as McCarty's.

Holmstrom gave Detroit a 3-0 lead when he deflected Murphy's shot from the right circle past Hebert on a power play at 16:27.

The teams traded goals by Kariya and Shanahan in the second period.

Kariya slipped a shot past Maracle with 4:06 remaining, but Shanahan responded just 39 seconds later on a breakaway after Anders Ericksson picked off a pass in the Anaheim zone and sent it ahead.

Larionov made it 5-1 at 4:08 of the third with a blast from the high slot just four seconds after the Ducks' Marty McInnis was sent off for hooking.

Kariya scored again on a power play with 5:12 remaining, blazing a shot from between the circles that went through Maracle's legs. Selanne, who did not play on a regular line with Kariya but joined him on the power play, had an assist.

The Ducks have scored at least one power-play goal in seven straight games and 10 of 11.

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PHOTO Red Wings forward Sergei Fedorov, right, exults as Ducks defenseman Kevin Haller grimaces after Fedorov scored in the second period.

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