Wings win Game 2
Draper's OT goal puts Detroit up 2-0
Posted: Friday June 12, 1998 12:00 AM
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Firepower: Fedorov (91) and the Red Wings outshot the Capitals 60-33 (AP) |
DETROIT (CNN/SI) -- The Detroit Red Wings showed
Thursday night why they won the Stanley Cup last year. Kris Draper's goal at
15:24 of overtime gave the veteran Wings a 5-4 Game 2 victory over the
Washington Capitals.
Trailing 3-1 after the second period, Detroit rallied with three goals to
tie the game at 4-4 and force OT.
Both goaltenders did their best to keep their team's from losing in the
extra session.
Detroit's Chris
Osgood made a sprawling save 2:24 into overtime, while Olaf Kolzig stopped
Sergei
Fedorov's blast at 14:49, smothered Kirk Maltby's shot
from close range seconds later, stoned Fedorov on a mini break again at
13:38 and blocked Brendan Shanhan's shot seconds before the game-winning
goal.
Doug Brown kept
the puck in the zone and sailed a shot past Kolzig at 4:14 of the third period to notch the
game.
Osgood stopped Brian Bellows from
close range with 1:36 remaining to keep it 4-4.
Martin
LaPointe cut the Capitals lead to 4-3 with just under 12 minutes to
play.
Just seconds after Steve Yzerman's
wrist shot sliced Washington's lead to 3-2, Joe Juneau notched his
seventh goal of the playoffs on the power play at 7:05.
The Capitals quieted the Joe Louis Arena crowd quickly in the second.
Washington scored three times in just over 11 minutes to take a 3-1 lead
over the Red Wings after two.
The Capitals tied it at 1:51 as Peter Bondra beat
Osgood on a wide-angle shot. Chris Simon knocked
home a loose puck at 6:11, and Adam Oates stole the
puck from Joe
Murphy, skated in alone on the net and scored at 11:03.
Yzerman's goal 7:49 into the game gave Detroit a 1-0 lead.
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