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DETROIT (Ticker) -- Kris Draper and Dominik Hasek helped keep Chris Osgood winless against his former team. Draper scored twice and Hasek made 25 saves in his first start in a week as the Detroit Red Wings handed Osgood and the surprising New York Islanders their first regulation loss of the season, 2-1. Osgood spent his first eight seasons with Detroit and backstopped the Red Wings to the Stanley Cup in 1998. After Hasek was acquired from Buffalo, Osgood was claimed in the waiver draft and helped the Islanders to the best start in franchise history at 9-0-1-1. But he has been unable to beat his former team, suffering a 5-4 overtime loss at home on October 13. In his first trip back to Joe Louis Arena, Osgood stopped 26 shots but was beaten twice by Draper as the Islanders had a six-game unbeaten streak stopped. "I would have loved to come in here and get a win and a shutout, but it wasn't to be this time. Maybe next year," Osgood said. "This is probably one of the toughest buildings to play in when you're on the road. We're a younger team and maybe we were a little tight in the first period. But it's a game we can take a lot of positives from." Hasek sat out two games and part of a third while battling the flu. He did not miss a beat, however, stopping everything he saw after Shawn Bates opened the scoring 65 seconds into the game. A slashing penalty on Brendan Shanahan gave New York a power play in the final minute and the Islanders pulled Osgood for a 6-on-4 advantage. But a blast by defenseman Adrian Aucoin went just wide of the right goalpost with 33 seconds left and Hasek denied defenseman Roman Hamrlik with 7.2 seconds remaining as the Red Wings held on for their fourth straight win. "Coming back from that win in Dallas, I was concerned because it was our third game in four nights. I knew it would be a pretty tight game," Detroit coach Scotty Bowman said. "We got penalties late in the third, and anytime you only have a one-goal lead, you're just a bounce away from getting a tie." Draper tied it with 3:54 left in the first period, scoring the Red Wings' league-leading fourth shorthanded goal of the season. After stealing the puck from Alexei Yashin in the neutral zone, he beat Osgood with a shot from the right faceoff circle. "It's what I do a lot in practice," Draper explained. "I used the defenseman as a screen and the shot seemed to handcuff him. It was a weird feeling. I've scored on him in practice for nine years, but to get an opportunity to do it in a game, that's weird." Draper again got the better of his teammate midway through the second period. Defenseman Maxim Kuznetsov passed out of the left corner and Draper managed to make a one-handed poke, sending the puck between Osgood's stick and the goalpost. It was his first two-goal game since March 22. "I'll call him. I'll let him get on the bus and then I'll give him a call," Draper joked. "I hope he answers. It's kind of bittersweet. It's good for me to score a couple of goals, but it's kind of tough to do it against your buddy." Draper nearly completed a hat trick in the third period. "Lucky for him or it would have been three that we're talking about," he said. "Shanny (Shanahan) made a great play, but I lost sight of the puck." "He had a few shots," Osgood said. "I stopped him, I think, four times and he scored twice. Tell Drapes I'll get him back some day. I will get him back." New York struck first as Mark Parrish faked his way around Kuznetsov on the right side and centered for Bates, who jammed the puck past Hasek for his fourth goal. But it was the only offense the Islanders were able to muster as they lost for the 12th time in their last 15 trips to Detroit. "It wasn't our best effort," New York coach Peter Laviolette said. "I don't know why we didn't come out and play better, but we didn't do a good job in the 1-on-1 battles, skating, intensity or forechecking. I didn't think (Detroit) played that great tonight, but we were worse."
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