STANLEY CUP ROUNDUP : FEDOROV BREAKS THROUGH FOR WINGS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Sergei Fedorov scored his first playoff goal with 2:06 remaining Friday night, giving the Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series in Detroit. Paul Coffey intercepted a pass and started the play with a feed to Vyacheslav Kozlov. He skated into the left circle, then slipped the puck to Fedorov in the slot. Fedorov forced goalie Jon Casey left, then flipped it into the net on the stick side. Dino Ciccarelli and Darren McCarty also scored for Detroit, which had the league's best record this season. Shayne Corson and Brett Hull scored for St. Louis. Hull's goal moved him into a 15th-place tie with his father, Bobby, on the career playoff scoring list, each with 62. Wayne Gretzky had one assist for the Blues. The best-of-seven series continues Sunday at Joe Louis Arena Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference , then moves to St. Louis for Games 3 and 4. The game was not punctuated by a wide-open offense for the Red Wings red wings see combretum platypetalum. , which is what they used in eliminating Winnipeg 4-2 in the first round. Detroit's defense also was stingy stin·gy adj. stin·gi·er, stin·gi·est 1. Giving or spending reluctantly. 2. Scanty or meager: a stingy meal; stingy with details about the past. in that series, holding the Jets to 116 shots in six games, only 10 of which went into the net. But the Blues outshot the Red Wings 33-28. Pittsburgh 4, N.Y. Rangers 3: Jaromir Jagr scored twice and set up Mario Lemieux's game-winning goal as the host Penguins won a shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. of the stars, beating the Rangers in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series. Lemieux and Mark Messier, two of the three finalists for the Hart Trophy awarded the NHL's best player, each had a goal and an assist as the Penguins won the opener from the Rangers for the third time since 1989. Pittsburgh won the other two series. Messier led a third-period flurry that briefly put New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ahead. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Dino Ciccarelli of the Red Wings is checked from behi nd by Charlie Huddy of the Blues. Associated Press |
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