Defenders Ian White and Niclas Wallin scored their first goals of the playoffs and Antti Niemi series at 33 shots to help the San Jose Sharks took the direction of the 2 - de le 2-0 0 in their series Conference semi-finals West on the Detroit Red Wings with a 2-1 victorySunday.
White scored on a power play in first period and Wallin extended the lead early in the third period as the Lup sharks together two of their best games back to back to jump on top of the Red Wings for the second consecutive year.
While Detroit could be faulted for a lack of rest to fall into a 3-0 hole, in San Jose, a year after a series of first round in seven games, the Red Wings have rested this year after sweeping Phoenix. But that made no difference against a determined sharks team which has won 10 of 12 games against Detroit.
Jimmy Howard was once more strong in the goals for the Red Wings, making 35 saves, but had little help from his teammates. The Red Wings hoping to change their fate when the series moves to Detroit for games 3 and 4 from Wednesday evening.
Controlled Sharks into second period and took the power of the dashboard to rare Wallin at the beginning of the third. He skated in the offensive zone and fired a shot that hit off the coast of Howard shoulder and helmet, the reason in the air and the Tomb in the net for a 2-0 lead.
Frustration of Detroit quickly materialized as Tomas Holmstrom takes a penalty draft on Jason Demers to cancel a game of power and Niemi kept coming up with big saves. His best moment came when he stopped Nicklas Lidstrom of the point and then Danny Cleary and Henrik Zetterberg on the third at halfway rebounds.
The Red Wings finally pierced with a goal of game power by Zetterberg with 6: 02 remaining. They could not get the equalizer, with the best chance coming when Lidstrom hit the post late in the period.
The two come goalkeepers big in a second period that included lots of hard hits, scoring chances and animosity that when Ben Eager in San Jose and Todd Bertuzzi Detroit fell into the bench of the Detroit Red Wings during a melee. The two is almost once again after serving coincidental roughing penalties, but Bertuzzi did not respond when Eager his gloves and received a sentence of 10-minute misconduct.
Niemi stopped a breakaway helpless by Darren Helm during the early period and made two nice cases against Zetterberg on a game to Detroit shortly after. Niemi also has a tough on Zetterberg judgment, in the last minute playing more like the goalie who helped Chicago win the Stanley Cup last season that the one who shot twice in the first round against Los Angeles this year.
Howard has been even better in the second and should be as sharks controlled the game for much of the period, winning two-thirds of the faceoffs and outshooting Detroit 19-9.
Howard robbed Devin Setoguchi, and Dan Boyle in the period and made a stop diving on Patrick Marleau at the end of a power play. Even when a puck has managed to slip by Howard, the sharks could not mark as striker Pavel Datsyuk cleared a puck loose from the goal line after a great effort by Douglas Murray almost gave a goal.
Howard made five saves more during a whirlwind in the minute of the opening of the third, stopping Marleau on a rush to the odd - man and Boyle on a rebound attempt.
The room was strong from the outset and has obtained more frantic when the Sharks broke out to a rare advance it playoffs when beaten white Howard with a breath through a screen on a set of power with Justin Abdelkader box for asking.
Who was San Jose's first goal, in the first period as Dany Heatley scored on the displacement of the opening of the first round against Los Angeles.
Notes: The Red Wings have lost six of their last seven series when behind 2-0, with the only victory coming in the first round against Vancouver in 2002. ... San Jose had allowed nine goals straight first-period tally before White.
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