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DETROIT (Ticker) -- Steve Yzerman had a power-play goal, a shorthanded tally and an assist for his second straight three-point night, leading the Detroit Red Wings to an 8-3 rout of the Minnesota Wild. After collecting three assists in Tuesday's victory over Carolina, Yzerman helped Detroit build a comfortable five-goal lead. Just like Tuesday, however, the Red Wings made things interesting by allowing three third-period goals. But Luc Robitaille, Brendan Shanahan and Boyd Devereaux answered in a 1:53 span as Detroit pulled away for its fourth win in five games and third in a row at home. Yzerman, Robitaille and Brett Hull reached milestones for the Red Wings. Yzerman moved past Mario Lemieux into eighth place on the all-time list with his 650th and 651st goals. Robitaille passed Jari Kurri into 12th place with his 602nd. And Hull had two assists to reach the 1,200-point mark. Typically, Yzerman downplayed his accomplishment. "It's really not an important number, it's no big deal," he said. "I haven't scored a lot lately, so I was pleased to get on the board again. "We were encouraged by the fact when it was 5-3 we didn't fall apart, we regrouped. But there is still too many games where we're allowing goals in the third period when ideally we would like to get a shutout or at least allow only one goal." Coming off his first NHL hat trick, Marian Gaborik picked up a pair of assists for the Wild, who have lost five of their last seven games. Minnesota coach Jacques Lemaire was not so concerned about his team's latest loss. "It's All-Stars on the other side," he said. "We battled back. ... They're very good. They've got scorers and there were a lot of bouncing pucks that went their way. Because they have scorers, it is in the net. It is that simple." The Red Wings benefited from several favorable bounces. After Tomas Holmstrom scored the only goal of the first period off a rebound, Detroit scored four times on 16 shots in the second. The Red Wings were on a power play 36 seconds into the period when Yzerman's drive from the blue line ticked off the stick of Wild defenseman Ladislav Benysek and got by goaltender Dwayne Roloson. Just under four minutes later, Nicklas Lidstrom's blast from the blue line went off the blade of Minnesota defenseman Jason Marshall's stick and redirected past Roloson to make it 3-0. Yzerman scored against the NHL's top power-play unit at 9:37, moving in alone on Roloson and wristing a shot inside the left goalpost. "The puck rolled off of (Gaborik's) stick. When he reached back, he looked up for a second and I stepped up," Yzerman said. "I figured he was going to go across the ice. He put it right on my stick." Yzerman made a perfect pass to set up a power-play goal with 3:12 to go in the period as Robitaille redirected the puck into a half-empty net. Minnesota scored three times in the first 9:04 of the third period, sparked by Richard Park, who scored his first NHL goal since March 19, 1997. Aaron Gavey converted a centering pass from former Red Wing Stacy Roest at 5:55 and Andrew Brunette got an easy power-play tally just over three minutes later as the Wild closed to 5-3. "I thought the effort was there and it got better as the game went on," Minnesota defenseman Willie Mitchell said. "I guess you could say that's a good hockey team over there. You never like losing, but when you lose to them, (it's not so bad)." Detroit did not need much time to regroup. Robitaille got his second goal of the game at 13:40, tipping Chris Chelios' point shot past Manny Fernandez, who replaced Roloson to start the third period. Shanahan made it 7-3 on the next shift and Devereaux got his first goal since October 24 with 4:27 to play. "We just started to sleep at the start of the (third). Our minds went back to the game before," Devereaux said. "We wanted to fix it as quickly as we could, so it was nice to get that goal back."
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